Week #48

Hola!

Quite the week this week! I don't if good I mentioned this last week but we had quote the miracle! About a week back we randomly decided to look look through some old baptismal records and we found this guy who was baptized but never confirmed, so we went and to the address listed and knocked and this guy opened up with his Book of Mormon in hand and says, I've been waiting for you! He then told us his story how he was baptized then right after his baptism he got antied and had some doubts and sort of was lost for 4 years tell about a week ago he felt all the sudden the urge to get back to church so he started to read the Book of Mormon again and prayed for the missionaries and that's when we showed up! We had some awesome lessons with him and he came to church! He's solid to get baptized on the 7th!

The family we have been working with also looks good to be baptized this Saturday! Awesome family! The work is great over here!

This week I gave a talk at the funeral of one of our investigators (A members Brother). It was a really spiritual experience and also the longest I have ever spoke (almost 20 min in Spanish). The day after I spoke in the branch and with not much time to prepare but I think it went quite well!

Overall a very solid week! My favorite scripture comes from Alma 5:26-  26 And now behold, I say unto you, my brethren, if ye have experienced a ^achange of heart, and if ye have felt to sing the ^bsong of redeeming love, I would ask, ^ccan ye feel so now?

All who have been baptized and have read the Book of Mormon have felt the spirit, but one of the key parts of this is to retain that spirit and make sure we can feel it everyday! I love this quote from Brigham Young I found this week that shows what we can expect is we don't retain the spirit in our lives and fall away 

"What have the Latter-day Saints got to apostatize from? Everything that there is good, pure, holy, God-like, exalting, ennobling, extending the ideas, the capacities of the intelligent beings that our Heavenly Father has brought forth upon this earth. What will they receive in exchange? I can comprehend it in a very few words. These would be the words that I should use: death, hell and the grave. That is what they will get in exchange. We may go into the particulars of that which they experience. They experience darkness, ignorance, doubt, pain, sorrow, grief, mourning, unhappiness; no person to condole [lament] with in the hour of trouble, no arm to lean upon in the day of calamity, no eye to pity when they are forlorn and cast down; and I comprehend it by saying death, hell and the grave. This is what they will get in exchange for their apostasy from the Gospel of the Son of God (DBY, 85)."

Have a great week! Dios les Bendiga!

Con Amor,

Elder Houssian

-Found an investigator, an ice cream truck, and a cow out in the fields!