20 months today!

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  Subject: Historia Familiar     

So this week was great!

Last night we had a lesson with Sandi and have planned to go to the temple with her and her family to help them get an answer this week. She has got a lot of fellowship from ward members and is doing a lot better in not drinking coffee. Also we talked a little bit about family history and she already has Family Search! She got it like 2 years ago and has already done a lot of genealogy! We are planning on going to the temple with them on Saturday and are excited for it and think that it will help them get an answer.

Also this week Maribel finally came to church and she loved it! It was also great because the speakers were the bishop and someone in the stake presidency and they were very well given talks.

I really liked what the stake counselor said, when talking about what we learn about God from Joseph Smiths first vision, that how comforting it is to know that God has a glorified and perfected body of flesh and bones and isn't just a substance or cloud that is floating around out there. God has a body, as does the Son and we can become like Him. If you take away the fact that God doesn't have a body it changes and takes away the whole purpose of the Plan of Salvation. We are God's children and can become like Him through the Atonement of Jesus Christ.

Anyways so Maribel is doing well but the biggest challenge is that every 2 weeks she opens her paca, meaning she gets lots of new clothes, and Sunday is the best day to sell stuff because everyone goes to the market and they pass her paca on the way. But she loved church and wants to go again. She also wants to get baptized but we haven't put a date with her because she can't go to church for the next two weeks. Keep her in your prayers that she excercises a lot of faith this Sunday to come to church for at least an hour.

We had a multi-zone this past week and my companion took a picture with 5 other brazilians in the mission and when they were talking in portuguese I realized that I understood them! My ear has gotten used to portugese because of my companions accent and portuguese that he says every once in a while that I could totally understands what they were saying. But Elder Presbiteros spanish is getting a lot better.

I would encourage you all to do more family History work because it is really fun to learn about ancestors, especially pioneer ancestors! I am so grateful for one of my ancestors, Barry Wride, who learned of the Restored Gospel and got baptized in Wales England in 1857 at the age of 24, and later immigrated to Payson Utah, where my grandparents are from. I encourage you to learn more about your ancestors this week and take those names to the temple!

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