This week we are learning about how to teach and get our message across in simple and brief manner. So I think I better do it in the email as well.... haha just kidding! 

But it has been a great week. We have been doing lots of different activities and have been keeping ourselves pretty busy with everything. We meetings and trainings with president and divisions as well! This week I went on Divisions in Rinconada which is a ward from my first stake I was in Olimpo, so it was fun to be back in kind of the same place that I started my mission in! It was crazy to think about how long ago it had been but at the same time how fast it has all passed by. 

One of our good friends Peterson got baptized this weekend! He speaks very very little spanish so we had to teach him just about everything in creole. But he was super super happy! Edison also passsed the sacrament for his first time this week and did it super well. 

I like being in the mission because it always helps me understand things a lot better. Like how God really wants us to be better. Lots of churches worship God they sing and chant and read the bible, but the testimony that we are in the truth is because of the knowledge we have of our divine potential. God wants us to worship him and be good people so that we can be like him. We are so small and insignificant in the grand scheme of things but god has put that divine potential in each one of us that more than be ´saved' or something like that and float around as angels we are literaly his children that have the same potential as him.

We become more like him as we let him refine us. As he lets us be tested and we learn from him.

This week we had a funny lesson with an older lady who told us she was doing alright because a car had just crashed into her house the last week and she just got done patching it all up! We thought she was kinda crazy to be honest be something told us to go in and share anyway. So we asked if we can say a prayer with her. She accepted and we went in. We started to teach her and still we thought she was a little crazy But when we invited her to be baptized her whole being changed and she was listening so intently and accepted. Then to finish she said such a sincere prayer where she told Heavenly Father she wanted to be his daughter and that she was going to follow him. It is incredible to see how the spirit works in people. It works in all moments and can always touch people right where they need it. 

Now I shall finish reciting the words my father shared with me. For I know that my father is a just man always working in righteousness. #applythescripstoyourlife #applyyourlifetothescriptures

Quote from dad for the week:

Not only do we have to show faith in God, but He too shows us that He has faith in us as He leaves us to have our own trials and show our faith in Him. The Gospel is amazing. 

Elder Holdstock