Subject: Excellente!!
Excelente!!
That is what Elder Riffo says to everything and it's starting to rub on me. It has even gotten to the point where we get to peoples houses who we are teaching and the first thing they sy is excelente. But this week was very excelente.
We had a mini leadership conference last week with the other zone leaders outside the capital and President talked a lot about how he is worried that as a mission we are very low in fechas (people with a baptismal date) so we have been more bold in inviting people to be baptized and also been talking to everyone. Especially from Thursday to Saturday almost the only thing we talked about was that the prophet was coming to Guatemala. And it was SO awesome! Our building is the stake center, where it was transmitted so we made flyers and posters that we put up close to the church on lamp-posts and stuff and gave the flyers to a bunch of people (including members to invite their friends) and there were a TON of people and so as of right now we dont know if anyone came because they read a poster but if they did it is possible we wouldn't have seen them. This is what the poster/flyers looked like.
I especially liked the talk of Sister and President Nelson. Sister Nelson talked a lot about the Book of Mormon and about how a good response to many questions people will ask us about our actions and standards being different from others is "because I know the Book of Mormon is true". And President Nelson talked about keeping the commandments and at the end gave an apostolic blessing! It was very spiritual and the Lord blessed us with a good turnout.
Also a megahighlight of this week was on Sunday afternoon when we found the most pilas family I have ever met!! And it was all because of a BYU sticker they had on the back of their car. Yes it was on the back of their car. And that is why we decided to knock on their door to ask them where they got the sticker. Well turns out the daughter "Yazmin" (they spell Jazmin with a Y here) put it on the back of the car because of her name. Well they let us teach them later that day and we also went on Monday and they have been SO prepared. We taught them about the restoration and they understood it and loved it! They dont go to any church, the dad already believed that Christ came to the Americas (because he had read the Popol Vuh, check it out) and they dont even drink coffee. The son also had a really cool question/insight about the sacrament that connected it to baptism and the Atonement. The whole time Elder Riffo and I couldnt stop smiling. And they bought us Pizza after the lesson! They are golden and we are expecting them to get baptized very soon. All because of a BYU sticker on the back of their car!!
Also there is the boyfriend of a girl in the ward that we started teaching and he is on date to get baptized on the 7th! Assuming everything goes well. He has been coming to church for a while and in the first lesson he told us "this is the true church" and the spirit was very strong in the lesson.
We are also teaching some other families that are super awesome and came to see President Nelson and loved it! We are going to keep working with them and they have already come to church twice! The little girls in the family are SO cute. They got to the devotional with the prophet very late but the little girls were all dressed up and they loved the feelings of peace they feel in church and the focus on families. So yeah the work is going well here in Chimaltenango 1. I want to challenge each of you to do a little better this week in prayer, scripture study, and making the most out of your sacrament service. President Nelson talked about that and promised us that if we delight in the words of Christ and put them in practice then we will prosper in the land and find joy in our posterity. Keeping the commandments is the way to go! Read the Book of Mormon! It is true! Share your testimony with someone this week.
Love you all!
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