September 24 Email

Yeah i heard that they dedicated it!! How many temples do they have now in Utah!! seems like a billion... or like 16 haha my companions name is Elder Montenegro and he is from Panama!! He is one change from going home and I think that I will be with him till he leaves!!! Things have been going great for us we have two families who will be baptized on the 13th of october!! We will baptize 4-8 people!!! Depending on how the people progress however I want to have 8!! To be like John the Baptist and do one after the other!! lol they are really progressing and they hvae a deep desire to be baptized!! We only need to get the Dad to want to get married that is his challenge he has!! It's really weird but there is a fear here that if you get married you will get divorced and so people just dont get married... sometimes its a big problem.. however we are working hard to be able to get them baptized!! We actually only have me and my companion in our house because it is about the size of the downstairs computer room in our house however a little smaller... lol we onlly have room for our bed a dresser and 2 desks and its completely full!! there is hardly any room to exercise so that has been a challenge for me... lol  we actually have a new bishop I am actually sad because the old bishop was really awesome and worked with us a lot!! We now need to get to know the other bishop and im not sure how well he will be able to go out with us.. However the work goes on. :)  This week has been really great for me and I have been able to learn about how our attitudes can change the work! how if we will follow the words of the profeta Thomas S. Monson and think "its better to look up" that our attitudes can really change every aspects of our lifes! I have truely felt the uplifting power of the spirit as I have applied the wonderful works of our beloved prophet! I am so glad we are able to have a prophet that directs our eyes skyward when times get tough and when we seem to feel insignificant! Because I know sometimes I feel like I am just a peice of nothing sometimes that I work all the days and sometimes people dont want anything.  I only think of the scripture in Doctrine and Covanants that a soul is great in the eyes of God.  That how great will be your joy if you bring one soul unto Him, however how great will be your joy if you bring many!! I keep this in my mind to help keep me going and  I have realized that some of the hardest days are when this passage of scripture comes to mind more.  And I realized why is because I have a Father in Heaven who truely loves me and is giving me his words of encouragement to help me keep going when it seems like nobody wants to listen!! I have been working on my attitude and trying to be positive in every situation!! I try to always to look up!! to try to bring light to a world that seems to be almost as dark as a cave! one people that I have been looking upto for guidance is Nephi and his example! He truely showed what it really means to have a positive attitude! He could have given up and just quit however, he always looked at the positive.  There are many stories when he showed how to look up! When his brother tied him up,  when he was constructing a boat, and when his brothers always mumurred! I have come to love the scriptures and they have become one of the ways I first look to when I am needing help!! I am so grateful for them and more for my family!!! I would encourage you to ¨always look up¨ that God really does love us and He will help us through any situation no matter how easy or how dificult it may be.  I know that through changing our attitudes we can be more filled with the love of God for others that you can bring light to the dark that when others may not be able to stand we can lift them up!! i love you all so much and miss you tons!! I pray for you ALWAYS!!!
Elder Trujillo