Well this week has been super good for elder Terry and I. We started our the week kinda slow Elder Terry had a lot of leadership responsibilities that he had to complete at the start of the week and so we kinda got off to slow start. However while he was doing leadership stuff me and another elder who just got here were able to go out and work for a little bit. It was super cool to be with a greenie and you can definetly tell that the greenie fire was burning inside this Elder. Me and him contacted a couple people and then we did a few studies. It's interesting to think that at one point I was in the same spot as this Elder coming from the México CCM.
A couple days later Elder Terry and I had a super powerful lesson on eternal marriage with Hernan. He was so excited when we told him that families are sealed for eternity, which means that not only in this life will you be with the person you love the most, but in the next life as well. We had a member present there Hermano Manrique who is one of the coolest members I have ever met. Him and his wife testified of the power and the happiness that comes from within a sealed family. After the lesson he told us that his only goal right now is to marry his girlfriend and then in one year from now get sealed with her in the temple he said he was pumped for that day.
Anyways after that on Saturday night he had his baptismal interview. He was super nervous but he said he would do good😂. After his interview we started setting up his baptismal program and he asked me to do the baptism. I was so excited and happy for him. He is going to get baptized this Saturday so please pray for him😊😊.
We also were able to contact Bernadinos wife on Saturday. She was so nice and has really opened up to us. She told us how she's seen such a change in Bernadino and that she is going to start going to church with him! We got so excited when she said that. Then she invited us over for lunch on Tuesday and Thanksgiving dinner as well. I think this will be the start of her conversion process.
I've also been doing a lot of reading in the book of mormon. And one scripture that stood out to me was 2 Nephi 5:27 which says, " And it came to pass that we lived after the manner of happiness." I thought about it a lot and I realized that it's true. We as members of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints live after the manner of happiness. Why? Because we know that God has a plan for us and that he still talks to us through a prophet today and that he is still revealing more and more scripture to us. So share this happiness with others. That's how missionary work is done. You don't have to have a badge or anything like that. But what you do have is knowledge of and about the eternal nature of your life. I would invite you to help others understand theirs as well.
I love you all so much I hope that you can get the basement finished up before Christmas and I hope that everything goes good with school work and with your Callings as well. Les amo!! 😄
-Elder Gibbons
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