31 October 2009--¡Este semana = Lo Maximo!

Hey mom, thanks for the awesome letter. It really makes me so happy to hear how good everyone is doing at home, and to hear everything that is going on. This week was awesome!! First on Sunday we got to church, and a girl that we contacted in a chifa came! It is awesome when a contact in the street just decides to come. It doesn’t happen to often, so we were pretty happy when she walked in. She was asking about baptism, and a lot about the church. She has her Book of Mormon and everything now, and we are going to be working hard with her to progress. We also had another reference that we have been teaching that came, so we were way happy in the first sacrament meeting for La Molina. Then in the ward Mayorazgo we have the familia Delgado who are one of the best families that I have taught in my mission. Four of the Five in the family came, and they really had an amazing experience. The mom Jeannette and the son Anthony have already accepted a baptismal date for the 14th of November. Then we had an amazing lesson with them on Wednesday. The aunt, Jenny has had a hard time making the decision to be baptized because she had a bad experience in another church before. She has been reading the Book of Mormon like crazy. We had her read Alma 7, and we asked them what part they liked. She went right to versiculo 14 where it talks about repenting of our sins and being born again. She said she felt something come over her that was so strong that she wanted to cry. At that point we challenged her for baptism for the 14th of November, and she accepted without even doubting it. It is one of the best things in the world to see a person converted through the Book of Mormon, and really feel the spirit. We left their house practically jumping for joy. What made it even more awesome is we brought our recent convert, Andres, of 1 week, and he bore such a powerful testimony, and was even teaching parts of the lesson. He wants to go on a mission!! Now that’s what I’m talking about. Even more awesome was when we got to the principles of the gospel class Sunday, and there was Andres in front teaching! They gave him the assignment to teach the class, and the lesson was so powerful he seemed like a member of years. I never would have imagined he would be teaching 1 week after his baptism. He is going to receive the priesthood Sunday, and he is memorizing the sacrament prayers for the next. Holy cow, I’m so excited right now. I didn’t think this week could get any better until we taught another investigator named Erica that the Assistants have been teaching. She had some doubts about baptism, and she felt that she should be baptized in 3 years. Then a hilarious older member lady told her that she got baptized in 1 month, and is still strong in the church. So we taught her a lesson, and we shared Alma 32:16-18. That scripture was just what she needed. She pondered it for a little bit, and she accepted a baptismal date for the 7th of November. You could feel the spirit so strong in that lesson, and I know we were guided by the spirit to say and share what we did. Then she told us how much her life has changed since the exact day that she attended church. I don’t think this week could have gotten any better.
I had the big once a month missionary payment to do on Wednesday, and we got it in without a problem. They are finally fixing up the floor in my office too, so it is looking pretty nice. The weather is warm, the food is great, you gotta love the mission. I seriously don’t think anything went bad this week. I had a pretty big job to figure out how much we have in each account to spend for the rest of the year, but we got that all done, and we are looking really good in that budget. I love accounting too.
Oh and when we were eating lunch Sunday I ran into a family that lives in Vernon! They are good friends with the Mitchel’s, and I actually know their son from back in the day back at Tooele high! We are going to try, and visit them today. I don’t know if you guys remember a Pablo Panda that would hang around with Colin when we were in junior high. Well it was his family that we ran into. They live right here in our area! It was awesome to talk about Tooele, and she knew Frost, Sam, Colin, Rebecca, the whole bunch. Crazy how small the world is.
Well that’s my report for the week, and just want you guys to know that I know that this church is the only true church on the earth today, and it really does bring happiness when we follow the principle that Christ taught. The Book of Mormon is the keystone of our religion, and has so much power. It is amazing what happens when someone reads the Book of Mormon, and prays with a real intention to know the truth. The Holy Ghost is always there for us, and what a blessing it is. Thanks for everything, I love you all!! ¡Nos vemos Pronto!

Love, Elder Lee