Dear Mom, Dad, Lauren, and Ian,
This week has been nice. The baptism for two of the
sisters in my district went through smoothly on Saturday! The area is starting
to improve with the number of lessons we have and finding more people to teach.
We're also, as a stake and zone, preparing for a Family History Fair next week.
It should be really cool! It's going to be from Tuesday to Saturday and we're
all going to be doing something about Family History. But for this week, it's
the last week of the Transfer. I don't think there will be too many changes
with us. Half the zone just started training. One Elder is finishing his
mission, though, Elder Palacio, and is going home this next Tuesday. The Elders
in my zone all came over for lunch to say goodbye to him. We ate Mexican food because
today supposedly is Independence Day for Mexico. XP Other
than that, things are going ok.
This week our Zone went to the temple, and it was, as
always, really nice! ^_^ I also forgot my temple recommend but President
Corbitt is so awesome; he signed me a "replacement" recommend so that
I could get in. Did you know that the temple here is one of 12 out of all the
140 something temples that has a Room of Solemn Assembly? The Temple President
and President Corbitt both spoke to us in this room. It was a really cool
experience! Then they fed us pizza from Papa John's afterwards! Oh! Cool story
now that I think about it! There's a less active member named Erikson and he's
never been too active in the church before. He didn't drink or smoke or
anything like that but it seemed like he just wasn't interested in the church.
His mother, who's very close to us, confided in us back when I was with Elder
Pronk, that she prays and fasts very hard for her son. That night I felt the
need to share with her about Divine Providence. I think I read a talk about it
from David A. Bednar. That was about 2 months ago. Well, just a few days ago,
she told me that out of nowhere, Erikson said that he wants to serve a mission!
So, we'll be working with him to help him get back into the swing of things and
prepare him for his mission.
Jorge Nuñez passed his Baptismal interview last Saturday!
We're so happy for him! The process would have been much longer if it wasn't
for his wife, who is already a very strong member of the church. That reminds
me…his young daughter, Jasmin, who's only 5 years old, was sick one day when we
came over. Brother Jorge asked us to give her a blessing. When we blessed her,
we asked if she believed that the blessing will help her feel better, and in
the cutest response, she said "You already sent it away!" As adorable
as it was, that response also amazed me, in a way. If people these days could
have such an innocent and pure faith like tiny little Jasmin, people would be
so much happier.
So, Jorge's baptism will be this coming Saturday. It will be our first baptism since I arrived in
this area! I hope we can do some good here, if not baptisms, then reactivating
the less-actives. Encouraging less active members is just as important to the
Lord. Wish me luck!
Mom, remember that memory card you sent me three months
ago? Just last night I finally saw the videos in it because Elder Aguirre's
camera reads the video files, so I watched all the videos and I loved them!
Finally! Dad, my companions and I loved that you started saying the Padre
Nuestro in the video at Tita Jackie's house! They were also impressed with Tita Lit’s
Spanish! XD Laney and Hannah are so cute!
Hey I gotta go now, clock's run out. :( I love you all! Thank you so much for your
words of love and support and prayers! Talk to you next week!
-Elder Froude
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