July 30 Email

You have been gone 4 months!!

OOOOH Mom i honestly sometimes miss not being able to talk with you, and have those fun conversations! haha :) Things have been going great. We ended up having to push back the baptism this week to next week, because he didnt go to church grrrr. However the work goes on! We have been working hard this week to meet our goal of baptizing 3 families we have 3 getting ready for baptism its only now trying to get them there! Its been kind of sad that we have had so many problems that have happened but i keep telling myself that I want them with all my heart to see that christ lives and god is listening and that they really are converted to the gospel! We have 3 families with a baptism date however the complicated part is one needs a devorcio y tambien un matrimonio so that complicates things her sister also has a baptism date for this week!! Wahooo she has three kids and is such a strong women her husband left her after the third to costa rico so she has raised these three kids on her own! We have a family with a dad that is left to be baptism for a family completo so that should be great! He wants his brothers and mom to be baptized so we will for sure be working with him on that! He has 3 or 4 brothers and each have a wife and kids!! The mom is slowly but surely accepting the gospel and continuing. We have another family we taught yesterday that we put a date for and they are really positive! Another family with 2 younger parents that are 18 and 19 and a little kid! We really want them to be baptized because it will help guide their life's because they are so young and they need all the help they can get! We have a lot of work ahead of us as well as trying to get new ones and progress the others! Ahh so many things to do and not enough time! haha I also had capasitacion this week not sure the word in english haha but its that we got trained by a past missionary that was trained by the people who put together preach my gospel! she is one of the most spiritual people i have ever met! I learned a lot from her and also how important preach my gospel is! however its work work work work work! haha I love it here so much mom i cant even describe the feeling i have every day its truely a milagro no se en ingles but i see the spirit and the lord in my life every day! I see these peoples lifes change right in front of my eyes and not in years or months but in days!! The lord really can change us and make us better! We have a saying we say when we teach and its no importa la problema o desafio pero el senor ayudara cambiarnos! When i say that i truly know that its true! I cant describe the love i have for this people! When i first got here i was scared and not going to lie i thought i was going to die and i wanted to come home. haha But as time has gone by i have come to know how much the lord loves us I can only hope to get more and more lost in this work! I think of you guys every night in my prayers and i miss you a lot and when i see you change i know that the lord is blessing you as well! It empowers me and helps me to focus on the work to know that my family has angels watching over them and that through my faith I know that i need not worry! At times i will have a dream or a thought that makes me miss you however i then think of how much more you will be blessed as i work hard and sacrifice what i can to the lord! i love you so much mom and all that you did for me to get me here! You truly have a faith that is unbreakable and i know that your faith has helped me to come to this point in my life! WE now need the rest of the family to come too i see the changes and i pray for all that you will feel the spirit and will find the love and compassion of the lord! I hope that you all are growing just as much as i am! seek for the help of the lord because he will make you more then you ever thought or imagined! We can do hard things! I have come to know this is true but they only seem hard when we try to make the trek ourselves! Search for the lord to help in every instance and what he wants you to learn! I love you all i pray for every one of you individually! For you well being and for you to be able to do all that you desire! Love you so much!!!!

           Elder Trujillo