It's A Wonderful Life!

The members just filled in our week on Sunday with lunches and dinners. We actually have to spread them out over two weeks to fit everyone in, and it is a wonderful problem to have. We aren´t having problems finding, just choosing whom to teach and when. We have two baptisms this weekend, and what I am sure is the progenetor of carnivore soup: locro. Locro has pig feet, bacon, beef, chicken, sausage, colored sausage, corn, cow stomach, and anything else the butcher has to sell, and if its made well its awesome. Every May 25th they eat it, and it´s a huge deal. The bishop is gonna cook three cauldrons full of it, and we are going to practice singing with the youth, learn how to recycle plastic bottles and fellowship all of the investigators that we can. Church attendance is great. We had a solid number of people in church, and have been visiting the investigators with members to say hi and show them that we love them. We gave a talk in church and told the members the hard truth that every week that we don´t invite someone to church we are not fully preaching the gospel, even if we throw in hints and hidden motives in our conversations. The full blown invitation is always a requirement for secure, open progress, and shows real love for our beloved friends and family. This last week I feel like I solidified my belief in the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon, with an experience that may seem insignificant at a glance, but really impacted my life. I began in 1 Nephi. "I, Nephi, having been born of goodly parents" and so forth simply rang so true and similar to my life that I couldn´t help but to say out loud, "this book is so true." Later, I read in Alma 26 and 29, where the sons of Mosiah testify of their beliefs and the importance of God´s work of saving mankind from eternal damnation. I finished with Mosiah 28:3, which always gets me, and the chain was very powerful in its witness that we must share this gospel. Noemi is getting baptized, and Alexa too. Noemi just makes me happy when I see her with her husband as they together prepare to go to the temple and be sealed a her after her baptism. The Lord did all of her teaching, and I feel priviledged to have seen the great time of her baptism. Alexa was going to be baptized yesterday, but she got really, really sick, so we will do it this weekend instead. Please pray for her and her family. Her mom needs to get work off, and has in her head that if she doesn´t get it off we will just keep postponing it until she can, which we can´t really do. Please pray for her! I love the work, life, my companion, the members and everyone that I meet. Most of all, I love my Savior, because He first loved me. This is the Lord´s church, and all who live it´s precepts will know by the holy power of God Almighty that it is thus. In Christ, Elder Lindsey