Greetings from Amengual!

This week has continued to be really full of activites which is great! We had lots of divisions lots of interviews and lots of people to teach as well. One of our little miracles has been Laura and Elison. They are from bolivia and are going to get baptized this weekend. They have really been so prepared and are really excited to be able to get baptized. I think that Elder Manrique will get to baptize for his first time so that will be really awesome! I have really gained a testimony of how the lord is always guiding us and preparing the way for us. Like it says in Nephi that the lord will never give commandments before preparing the way. And it is so true. Sometimes we think that we know the way or that the path is already indicated but we see that the will of the lord is not always the same as ours and when he shows us the path and we trust in him and we walk on it then we will be able to know that he is guiding us. So never forget to just take whatever life throws at you because in one way or another god is preparing the way for you.

We will see what happens this week because we are going to have changes. It looks like we will be receving another missionary that will be companions with elder manrique so we will only have to worry about one sector because for the last two weeks we have been working in both of them. But who knows...!

In one of our divisions this week we taught this lady who said elderes I dont know if I can do this whole living the gospel thing... because I cant forgive people. She had had some difficult things happen in her life and had some big grudges against a few different people. We always talk about forgiveness with the people but in a different way. We always talk about how Jesus is alway willing to forgive us. But hardly do we talk about how we should forgive others. But she locked on to this idea and it made me think a lot about the importance of that. Jesus wants us to be like him. And he is a perfect example of the perfect forgiver so we should forgive those who have wronged us even though that is hard. We should learn to forgive ourselves even though that might be harder. Because Christ won't ever think twice about forgiving us... so we shouldn't either.

It sounds like everyone is doing super well back home! I am rooting for Sam's team against the peruvians! I have one companion that is named Diego Inofuente he is from Trujillo and another one named Rodrigo Manrique and he is from Lima. so maybe you will run into someone who knows one of them who knows.

Well keep on keepin on.

Elder Holdstock