Semana 30- El Templo

Lots of crazy good things and lots of little milagros. We had a couple friends on date for baptism fall through which was super sad. But, we have the saldaña family who all want to be baptized which is super cool! And when we asked the family what would stop them if they got baptized tomorrow the daughter said that there was literally nothing. We had on optometrist appointment for sister Wagner to check and make sure she doesn't need eye surgery. And everything is good so far. We had the ward temple night and went with two of our cute recent converts in our area Gloria and Sammy. It was also Gloria's first time doing baptism for the dead which was super exciting and she literally loved it so much!! Then we talked with a bunch of people at the temple who only speak Spanish, sam some other missionaries, almost got washed out on the freeway because it was pouring, and it was Sister O'Bryants first time going through the temple and this cute old lady got endowed and sealed for her parents!! Honestly it was the best day ever!!! Elder Michaelson and Elder Staheli had a baptism for a cute young girl. We had dinner this week with Ruby and she fed 8 of us missionaries super delicious Enchiladas and then the blaisdell family fed us again and we played football with the kids. Also, huge milagro... this month our mission baptized 150 people in July alone. Because of this, we had the whole mission called last night at like 10:30pm that we were all meeting today for a spontaneous zone p-day and we had a fire devotional today and played lots of games and talked to all of our past companions like sister church and sister Martinez. It was the best!! And my grandmother figure from Alice got baptized on Sunday which was the best thing ever and I am so excited!! She is super amazing and her whole family came to support her. Like 30 years ago her mother got baptized and then passed away 5 years or so afterwards and this cute old lady used to feed us pretty much weekly in Alice. Just some super cool things. Transfer news happens tonight so next week I will let you all know what happens. Keep doing great everybody and sorry for not emailing back!! Please know that I am reading them and I care so much for you all.

Pensamiento Espiritual: Joseph B Wirthlin - the windows of light and truth
"Nosotros somos los discípulos del Salvador que “irán”. Todos “he[mos] sido llamado[s] por el [como misioneros] para declarar su palabra entre los de su pueblo”. Podemos prestar servicio como misioneros regulares durante nuestra juventud o mas tarde como matrimonio jubilado. La ventana de la oportunidad se abre sólo por un período de tiempo relativamente corto, por lo que debemos seguir el consejo del presidente Kimball: “hazlo”, y luego el agregó: “y hazlo ahora”. Los misioneros de estaca y toda persona que se preocupe por su vecino tienen la oportunidad de prestar esta clase de servicio divino. Todos tenemos la sagrada obligación y la gozosa oportunidad de abrir las ventanas de luz y verdad al proclamar las bendiciones de la vida eterna a un mundo en tinieblas"

Fotos
- us with gloria and Sammy at the temple
- comps
- gloria
- Sammy
- temple
- the old Pic of Gloria's baptism
- MELBA my other grandmother figure got baptized, and Lucas got to baptize her







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