Just another week here in paradise. What an amazing adventure it has been these first two weeks at the coast!! We've had some ups and downs here as always, but above all, we are here working hard in this amazing work of the Lord!! I hope, as always, that you guys truly have had an opportunity to feel the spirit in your every day lives!!
So to start off, I have a pretty dang awesome story to tell you. But, to understand the story, I have to describe our house!! It's super awesome. Right as you walk in you go up to like the first level where there's a patio and a place to wash your clothes (by hand, ha ha) and then you go up to the second level and that's where we live. Then the third level is where the owner used to live until they moved to the City of Mexico! Well, do you want to know why they moved to Mexico?? I bet you do, so I will tell you. They moved to Mexico because about a month ago, two people in the middle of the night broke into the house (it's not hard to break into the house here) and literally kidnapped the owner. How awesome is that??!! So I was pretty excited to hear that story when I got here. It was awesome!!
Anyways, on the more serious side of things, I had such an amazing experience this week!! So there is an amazing family here called the Lucero family. They are only members of like nine months or so. The dad of the family passed all of his interviews to be ordained to the Melchizedek Priesthood and he asked me to ordain him!! Good heck, it was such an amazing blessing. As we finished the interview, I was talking with Brother Javier is his name and I almost started crying just being filled with so much happiness for him and his family!! After nearly 45 years of being a Catholic family, they found the truth and they are so dang blessed for it!! I have only been here for about two weeks, but my love for the people and especially the Lucero family is so dang strong!!
I have seen so many miracles here in the mission field that it's unreal. I'm so dang blessed to be a missionary in these last days!! Yes, we are in the toughest of times right now, but I have the strongest, STRONGEST testimony that as we hold FAST to the iron rod, and as we do the small and simple things, we will be SO blessed and we WILL receive exaltation! As the Prophet Joseph Smith taught us in D&C 121, many are called but few are chosen!! I would invite you all, as Bishop Nielson, invited me, to read D&C 121 and ponder in your heart what it says and I know the spirit will touch your hearts!! Have an amazing week everyone and know that I love you all so very much!!
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