Christmas 12/19/16

Hey guys!  I love you all!  I am so happy to hear and feel he Love of God that he has had for you all!  He is truly merciful!  Please keep on doing your best!  This week instead of going day for day I am going to try and write like normal.  God has truly blessed us this week!  I would say looking back on this week that God taught me alot and is helping me to progress. 

First talking about Manuel, on monday we had a good lesson with him.  In the end we asked him about his desires for getting baptized.  Throughout almost all of the lessons we have taught him so far he has said that he feels good.  Or in other words the light of Christ.  So he told us that he wanted to get baptized mainly to satisfy his wife and to not feel guilty ever time the missionaries invite him.  So that really got us thinking.  Those arent bad desires, but we should follow the Gospel mainly to follow God and do his will because we love him.  So we would pray and think about it and the thing is, he cant read and doesnt understand us a lot.  Therefore we felt that we should explain the articles of Faith in order for him to understand why we have faith and what it is.  It is important for him to understand why!  It is hard because he doesnt have a huge religious background, so he just says stuff that he truly doesnt understand.  Like when we ask him what the Holy Ghost is he would say Faith and Ressurection.  So we felt that we should go over things very simply with him.  So Thursday we went and taught him the first 3 articules of Faith and he understood!  We feel he truly feels the importance of being baptized, but doesnt understand.  It was a tender mercy to see Gods loving hand guide us and the lesson to where he could understand.  That is what has happened with the investigators this week.  

This week we were also able to find some pretty cool future investigators.  They seem to be really cool people!  Also we ere also able to serve some of the members with choping wood!  It was pretty fun.  I imagine there is snow on the ground there, but here it is really sunny and I am wearing a lot of sunblock!  I was also able to learn a lot of things from some drunk guys that we talked to on the street!  God truly works sometimes through some cool ways!  As well God truly protected us this week in situations that could of been really dangerous!  That has been my week!  Next week we should know transfers by Monday at least.  So we will see what happens!  We will see what God wants.  Love you guys!