HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

November 2, 2015

HI FAMILY!!!!

This week is great!! the first week of changes and...... drumroll.... Im still here in flores and my companion is HERMANA CRANER!!! We miss Hermana Niu BUT We LOVE hermana Craner a whole lot. She has a change more than me and this week we have already seen so many great things happen!!

This week Iris came to church. she is a 17 year old girl... the cousin of a less active (who is now coming back to shurch woo!!) When we frist contacted her all she wanted to say was how she doesnt think taht it is the true chruch and that she doesnt really want to ¨change her religion¨ but God works in mysterious ways. the nex time we came back she was the one that asked US for a Book of Mormon and she asked US if she could be baptized! Then she came to english class and the to Church! She loved it and spent the rest of our sunday lesson telling us everything that she learned and how she is going to study for next week!! And drumroll.... how much she wants to go on a mission. We love her :)

This week we learned a lot about agency. We have to remember that agency is a gift from God and to be able to choose, whteher it be good or evil, it is our right. So when the people welcome us in they are choosing to Love God and come unto Christ and welcome the light back into their lives. but sadly enough, that also means that a lot of poeple use their agency to reject us. Ya know. As much as we preach and follow the spirit.... if the people reallllly dont want to be a mormon.... they will find a way... well, to not become Mormon. Its as simple as that. Do we love them? Yes. A lot. And we hope that one day they will use thier agency to follow chirst and so that one day they can live with God.

So this week our golden family that we had started working on getting baptized handed back every book and pamphlet that we had ever given them about the gospel. They had started hearing a lot of comments from people and about 2 weeks ago... the comments were nothing to them. The hermano would jsut look at his wife and be like...¨¨ Honey. We gotta be strong. We cant listen to these comments. Satan jsut wants to get to us.¨¨ but sometimes... becasue God has given us weaknesses, we fall a little bit. On thursday they announced that they had just dropped coffee and jamas are going to drink it. he had called the lawyer so they could get started on thier papers and they were starting to memorize scripture masteries. she as even tell me about what she was going to wear to church that sunday. But Satan sometimes just sneaks his way in without us even realizing it. We show up to their house on Saturday night. We had planned a huge FHE with the block in their house with all their family memebers that lived near but when we walked in there was just a stack of books and the hermano wasnt there... he was hiding in the back room. She started telling us about all the comments taht she had heard and that she didnt feel good at all so couldnt keep going. It was very contenious at first but we started with a prayer.... and this is how it went....

I can tell you that the spirit is real. and when we follow the spirit it will lead up to say exactly what we need to say. We started talking about true conversion and about tesimonies. I shared my personal experience on how I knew and I came to know. We shared all about how we came to know... and reminded them of how they felt at the moment they knew. Hermana.... it was never easy for Christ either..... he asked God to pass this cup from him... but what did he end with? Not my will... but thine be done. If Chirst paid for ALL of our sins and overcame death so that we can live with God, I can tell you. That was not easy for Him. But he did it. casue it was Gods will. If he can do that, we can do whatever trials that come in our path. cAsue were not here to do what we want. Were here to follow Chirst and do everything according to the will of the the Father.

There was a silence for a moment or two and she just looked at us and handed all the books back and told us to have a good night.

So my invitation is to do God´s will. He can always see the bigger picture so sometimes we may not understand. but we do it anyway because we love him.

I hope you have the best week!!

Hermana neslon