Hola familia y amigos!
Well last week I forgot to explain about my title, so just really quick, we have these cats in our neighborhood that always come into or around our house and when they meow, it sounds like they are in pain and crying. Probably one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard, it’s really funny.
Alright so this week was pretty good. It’s been really hot all week long. There haven’t been many clouds this week and the sun has been going at it full blast. We have been trying to find new people to teach and to keep control of who we have. Sometimes it feels like we have so many people that we talked to and said we would stop by that I feel a little overwhelmed with how many people there are and how few are progressing, so we´ll see what happens. We have an amazing family that we are teaching, the Salinas family, they are incredible! They live in a part of the area that is out of the way, but they are amazing. In their colony there are two main churches and neither of them have gone to talk to them or anything and they just love having us over. The dad always talks about how he loves the Book of Mormon and that it is true and that people should read it! They were at church a half hour early and it was ward conference and the Stake President came (amazing guy, he’s 27 and has amazing talks) and they love the church and everything. We just have to get them married and they can get baptized in December. They are a great family. The husband read from the beginning of the BoM to Jacob 7 in 2 days! It’s ridiculous! They are great and hopefully they will continue to progress. To get to their area you have to cross a bridge, and it is the sketchiest bridge ever, just planks of wood on a suspension bridge over a dirty creek thing. It’s funny cause the other day we were going over there and we found a black lady that didn’t want to cross because she was really scared, so we helped her over a set a date to go back to teach her!
Well this week we had the baptisms for Josue, the grandson of Manuel, and Gina, and it was awesome. There was an activity at the stake center for the Relief Society (our ward made a whole bunch of baked goods, super delicious) and they went back to the church to clean for conference and stay for the baptism, it was great! Elder Ward baptized Gina and Manuel baptized Josue. It was the first thing Manuel has done with the priesthood! He was really nervous and had the whole prayer memorized but messed up a bit, but when he did it right everyone was really happy and they congratulated him later. Then my comp baptized Gina and he said he stopped a bit in the prayer because of emotion, but he did a really good job with his first baptism, and Gina was radiant. She later shared her testimony at the baptism and it was amazing. She said she felt at home and that she has a new family and that everyone has done a really good job supporting her, we are just missing her husband. It was a great service and we were really happy to see her get baptized.
We had ward conference this week and the stake president is awesome. He used The Lion King to teach a great principle. It was when Simba is not sure if he should go back to save his people and talks with his dad and his dad says "you are the son of a king, get up and take your part of in the circle of life" and reminded us that we are sons and daughters of a King and we need to get up, not look at our past and face our future and take our throne. It was a great talk.
Well thanks for everything, hopefully this week we will have more success, hope everyone back home is doing great!
Adios!
Elder Neher
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