How much I have grown

I really have been given a huge opportunity in returning to Bosque.  We have a lot of investigators that actually want to progress, they come to church, they read their Book of Mormon, they pray, oh man I love it here. Haha Madero was deader than a door nail and it was taking me with him, so glad to be here again. 

By far the coolest thing about being here again is seeing my converts, S. got married in the temple in June and goes to institute and all that good stuff, Her mom also got baptized after I left and is progressing really well. Y. was assigned to teach a class in church, got scared and hasn't come back to church since hahahaha so we gotta work with her a lil more...

But by far the coolest thing was to see Family C. El hermano is president of the elders quorum and yesterday he was assigning and testifying and doing all kinds of stuff in priesthood class. His wife is the president of the primary and the two youngest daughters just got back from EFY. They are all attending a temple prep class and will be sealed in September. I really can't tell you how grateful I am to God for sending me here again, I get a unique experience to see the progress of converts I had a year ago and get to see how much they have grown, and really how much I have too. We have a lot of member support and I'm feeling 100% the last 4 months of my mission are gonna be the best. 

Wooh. 

Back to the beginning

I had transfers and you are not going to believe where I got sent. Bosque 1 Gomez Palacio. I might finish my mission where I started it.... no lo puedo creer (i can't believe it).... 

Family C. is going to be sealed in September and S. got married in the temple about a month ago.... I can't wait to see them again. 

I really don't know what else to write, I feel really weird. 

Missionary Moment: The Fruits of Our Labors

https://www.lds.org/church/news/missionary-moment-the-fruits-of-our-labors?lang=eng&query=fruits+of+missionary+work

Do anything to receive the blessings of the gospel

This week was actually a really good one we had lots of really good lessons and I'm feeling good! We did a lot of contacting this week (like we do every week haha) and we found a couple of good investigators. We found a family of four that seemed really interested in our message and we will be going back to visit them this week, so I'll letcha know.

We taught F. (the policeman that I wrote about last week) and his wife again this week and had a couple of members come with us. We taught them about the Restoration, the Spirit was strong and they accepted a Book of Mormon and they will be coming to church next week (didn't come to church this week because the wife is in a University and had to take her final exam) and we will be seeing them again. After the lesson the members that came with us left the lesson really happy and told us that they felt the Spirit really strong, they will be coming with us again! Oh yeah!

The week ended with us teaching an investigator named I. We found him about 2 months ago and wasn't really all that interested, told us he went to a different church, he was never home other than on Thursdays, so we could only visit him once a week, and yeah not really all that interested. We went over to his house yesterday to talk to him and see if he had read the Book of Mormon we had given him, he hadn't but he was very different. He is having a lot of problems in his family right now and told us that he needs Gods help, I don't really remember everything we said, but it was one of the most powerful lessons I have had as a missionary. We talked about the Book of Mormon, about the need of the restoration, and about the importance of the family. We prayed with him and he cried and told us he would do anything to have the blessings we talked about, so boom, he told us we could visit him every other day, he will be coming to church, and accepted a baptismal date in August. It was awesome. 

I'm doing good.

Elder Roberts

The Spirit helps us endure hard things

Nobody came to church again this week, woooh... hahah naw it's alright, after 19 months if they don't show up it's not gonna ruin my life. 19 months, so old...so old....

It was actually a really good week, we taught some good lessons and we also gave a priesthood blessing to a little girl that is very sick. She has epilepsy or something, she has seizures and is always twitching and her body is so exhausted by the attacks that she can't walk by herself. It was hard, it is hard, to see little kids that have to suffer like this, I can only imagine how hard it is for their Heavenly Father to have to see them suffer in a life of trials and probation.

 We taught a lesson to her mom (inactive member) and aunt (investigator) and she just sat there in the lesson, her face very sad, and tired, and serious. Shes is 6 and has had to mature fast to be able to deal with her problems. We had a very spiritual lesson about the plan of salvation and then gave the little girl a blessing. It was probably the most spiritual and special priesthood blessing I have given on my mission. The spirit was super strong afterward, the mom was crying and everybody else was very solemn and reverent.

Nothing compares with the Spirit. I love the Spirit. It doesn't matter where you are, or what trials you have in life, if you have the Spirit you will be at peace and will be happy. One of my heroes Elder Packer died this week and if there was one thing that he always spoke about it was the power, the importance, and the mercy of the Spirit.

 We also met a really cool family this week. We taught them about the importance of the family and they both started to tell us how much they want and need God in their lives because they are going through a lot of problems as a family. The husband is a policeman, and policemen in Mexico have to deal with the worst of the worst, so it's hard for him to have a family life and the professional life that he has to deal with every day. It was a really good lesson and afterward they fed us, first lesson and BOOM food, golden investigators.