A MIGHTY CHANGE OF HEART

Hola a todos...


This week was the best week of my whole mission!!!  I feel absolutely fantastic!!!  We saw so many miracles these past few days.  First of all before I forget... I have not gotten Elder William`s letter yet.  If you can it would be nice if you could get my drivers liscence replaced, and in order to get my temple recommend renewed I have to have an interview with President Da Silva.  But I`m not worried about anything that happened with that little mishap.

This week we saw miracle after miracle as God literally placed one prepared person after another in our path as we searched for more people to teach.  We found 9 new investigators and are way excited for the month of June here in Camino Carrasco.  Gustavo came to church and loved it and is now fighting to free himself from his addiction to cigarettes.  He is going strong for his baptismal date on the 4th.  Then Sonya and now her grandson Agustin are preparing to be baptized on the 11th along with 3 friends of our recent convert, Sebastian Machado (their names are Daniela, Luiz, and Juan), and then Claudia is having trouble stopping smoking so she is now going to be working for a baptismal date for the 18th of June.  We had 6 investigators in church yesterday, and are now starting to help two children of a member (their names are Ignacio and Guillermo) to get baptized in June. 

There was a lot of talk about this one radio preacher who was telling all the people that the world was going to end on May 21st... it was posted all over the buses and buildings and we got asked a lot what we thought about it.  The best part was that the 21st had some of the greatest weather that we have had in a really long time, and another false prophet was discovered...

But the best part of the week was a leadership meeting we had where we got to watch a video of a talk that Elder Holland gave to the missionaries in the MTC in Provo in January that talked about the importance of studying Preach my Gospel and in Serving and loving the Lord.  I felt the spirit so strong and after applying what I learned have felt the spirit constantly in my life stronger than I have ever felt it before.  The next day in the apartment Elder Ferguson and I were talking about how we want to be 100% obedient to every commandment and mission rule and then we got on the subject of what many missionaries call the ¨little rules¨ and we felt the spirit so strongly testify to us about the importance of following every counsel of the Lord.  I really felt a mighty change in my heart in which I have a great desire to magnify and obey each commandment instead of minimizing and fulfilling each commandment and that has led us to the success and spirit that we have had together in this week and will continue to grow with us for the rest of our mission.

That`s great to hear that both Colin and Mason have leadership positions in the priesthood now, that`s so great.  The Lord is preparing you now for future callings that he will give you in the mission and afterwards. Thanks for sending the money.  I`ll make sure that it gets to Elder Jimenez in time.  Until next week.

Love,
Elder Gardner