Week #57

Hola!

Great week again! Had a great lesson with Irene in our ward mission leaders house! She is progressing great! Also had two exchanges in this city called Madera! Not quite as good as Kerman but still taught a lot of people! 

We had a really solid zone conference with Elder Whiting of the 70! The spirit was so strong! He told us the lord needs us to strengthen the domestic church and hasten the gathering of Israel! 

Great day at church also! Elder Dodge and I both spoke in the branch! We also taught the gospel principals class and Irene & Marco came! Those two are getting close to baptism!

My favorite scripture of the week comes from Helaman 6:  3 Nevertheless, the people of the church did have great joy because of the conversion of the Lamanites, yea, because of the church of God, which had been established among them. And they did fellowship one with another, and did rejoice one with another, and did have great joy.

The joy of missionary work is like nothing else, help those find the path to eternal life and fellow-shipping those already on the path is the greatest work we can do in our lives!

Que tengan una Solida!

Con Amor,

Elder Houssian 

Week #56

Hola!

Another great week! Had two exchanges and a lot of teaching! On Tuesday President Mackay came to teach with us and he is a really solid teacher! Was a great experience! On Wednesday we were visiting a recent convert and his daughter was there and had just gotten back from visiting the pyramids in Mexico city! She told us the tour guide talked about Joseph Smith and asked if we could teach her about the relationship between him and the Pyramids! We then taught the full restoration and gave her a Book of Mormon!!! 

We have been teaching Marco some more and he is now in a wheel chair but still had his dad wheel him all the way to church and we wheeled him back!

The heat is still in full blast but should be cooling down soon! We started saving all the water bottles we were given a little over a month ago because here in California they give you 5 cents a bottle and turned them in today and got 11$ So we payed tithing on it then bought some solid tacos!

My favorite scripture from the week comes from Helaman 3:35  35 Nevertheless they did fast and pray oft, and did wax stronger and stronger in their humility, and firmer and firmer in the faith of Christ, unto the filling their souls with joy and consolation, yea, even to the purifying and the sanctification of their hearts, which sanctification cometh because of their yielding their hearts unto God.

Turning our heart to god each and every trough our actions purifies us and fills our lives with Joy!

Con Amor,

Elder Houssian

Week #55

Buenos mornings!

Solid week! The work is on fire here in Kerman! We taught Oscars mom Irene twice and set a date and she came to church! This man we have been teaching for a while now named Ernesto finally came to church and loved it! He told us he is going to retire in February and move back to Mexico and right next to the house he built in Mexico is a church building! So he told us "I might as well join the church here so I can go there when I move! 

Three less active who we have been working with for a while also came back to church for the first time in years! The Lord is working miracles here! I went on exchanges in Madera and did a baptismal interview for the first time for this man named Moises! Great experience and he will be a solid convert!

We taught this guy named Marco twice and he is a bit crazy so we sort of decided to not visit him as much, until we saw him walking down the street as we drove by and stoped to say hi. He told us he had been wanting to learn more and had been looking for us and asked if we could go teach him right then! So we did and he had read a lot of the Book of Mormon but for some reason started in the index then went backwards and made it all the way to Ether! He told us for 15 years all he was going to do was study the word and has read a ton of religious books and has some crazy ideas like instead of the Trinity he calls it the One-Eyed Willard, or the holy spirit, the son, and the flesh! So we did some teaching of correct doctrine and He learns fast, he remembered everything we taught him to the very details and told us he felt the spirit stronger with us then all the other churches he had been to (and he's been to a lot!). He came to church yesterday too and loved it! 

We also had a temple trip! Very spiritually energizing trip!

Favorite scripture of the week comes from Alma 50:19,20!

19 And thus we see how merciful and just are all the dealings of the Lord, to the fulfilling of all his words unto the children of men; yea, we can behold that his words are verified, even at this time, which he spake unto Lehi,saying:

20 Blessed art thou and thy children; and they shall be blessed, inasmuch as they shall keep my commandments they shall prosper in the land. But remember, inasmuch as they will not keep my commandments they shall be cut off from the presence of the Lord.

Every commandment given to us is a blessing and guideline to live a happy and prosperous life! Although this prosperity may not be physical, we have to Lords promise of spiritual prosperity which in the end is a greater prosperity! 

Have a great week!

Con Amor,

Elder Houssian

Week #54

Buenas tardes!

Very good week again! The Lord's work is hastening for sure here in Kerman! Started to teach Oscars mom and she's been to church two weeks in a row now! There was this man named Juan we contacted on the street about a month ago and didn't see him tell Sunday we were biking by and decided to stop and try and ended up teaching the whole Resotation! He told us like five times during lesson "10 O'clock, Sunday I'm coming to your church" so we'll see what happens! We have two twins we are teaching that are progressing very well and set to be baptized!

We've been getting tons of fresh Melons too! One trip to Firebaugh and Mendota and we came back with 3 watermelons, 4 cantalopes and a honeydew! 

My favorite scripture of this week is Alma 42:15 And now, the plan of mercy could not be brought about except an atonement should be made; therefore God himself atoneth for the sins of the world, to bring about the plan of mercy, to appease the demands of justice, that God might be a perfect, just God, and a merciful God also.

Without Christ's sacrifice, all hope would be lost! But thanks to Christ all things are possible through him!

Que tengan una buena semana!

Con Amor,

Elder Houssian