Familys can be forever

Well this week was alright. My Spanish is coming along and I'm understanding a ton more than I feel like I was even a week ago. We had another 2 baptisms this week - A woman named Ro and her daughter Ra. They have been investigators for a while and stopped taking lessons then all of a sudden they wanted to get baptized and so started taking lessons again and we got ´em dunked!

This week I would like to talk about the power of teaching. I have noticed that as we walk in between lessons its really easy to let your mind wander or to feel discouraged. You gotta just go into the lesson and first thing immediately is say a quick prayer in your heart that the spirit will be there then if it's you or your companion that says the opening prayer invite the spirit again and after that just go. I can't really explain it any better than that. I have only felt once or twice the spirit actually say something and I was like wait...what? Did I just say that, haha its really cool when your learning from what your saying, you pause for a minute and have to ponder what you said. Its really cool. But most times its you just go with what you planned and have a hope that the spirit will be felt. If you will just give it your all, all the discouragements and problems in life shrink, for a couple minutes its just you and them. 

One cool experience we had this week was with a lady that have been taking lessons for a while and just doesn't really progress but is always willing to listen to our message. This week she had her two sons sit in with us and I felt like we needed to focus on them and see where they are and what they need. We taught about who Jesus Christ is, who Heavenly Father is, and the importance of prayer and the Holy Ghost. We invited the two sons to read Moroni 10:3-5 then I asked if we could say a kneeling prayer with her family. She agreed and her ten year old son said the prayer. He started to cry and prayed for his parents who are having some problems and you could just feel his sincerity and desire to have his family with him forever. It was actually really sad. This is why we have the gospel.

Anyway to wrap it up life here is good when you give it all up and work, and it is hard when you focus on all the problems and whine and complain and just give up...go figure.

Elder Roberts

Eternal Truth

Family relationships can and will exist beyond the grave as families make and keep sacred ordinances and covenants in God’s holy temples. (4:14)