Sounds like you have all had a great week of fun and parties! I had a great birthday, the missionaries from my house surprised me with a birthday cake and made a chicken roast lunch to celebrate, we played Soccer. It still hasn´t hit me yet that I´m now 21, wierd... Time is flying by way too fast and I´m almost down to my last transfer. I have no idea what will happen my last transfer but it is most likely that I will stay here in the Hospital ward.
Sadly, we did not have a baptism this last weekend... Mariana will be getting baptized either this week or the next... She watches over an elderly sister from our ward and that sister happened to be in the emergency all this last week and Mariana was there watching over her so she couldn´t get baptized last week, Sister Cicao now is out of the hospital and we hope that all goes well so that she can be baptized this weekend or the next. We did have 2 investigators in church who are preparing to be baptized the 21st of January!!! And there is a kid of some members who is going to be baptized the 14th of January, so January is looking like a great month for baptisms in the Hospital ward.
We only had 5 baptisms in the zone all december but we are looking much, much better for January and we are all very excited, I think that with transfers some new missionaries will be coming in and we will have a new and greater excitement as a zone (There are a few missionaries that have been there for 6 months that are just ready to move to a different area).
For New Year´s Eve, we ate dinner with the Barrios Family and it was really good. I am really giving it my all and trying to serve with all my heart, might, mind and strength so that the Lord will constantly guide us to those who are waiting to be baptized and receive the gospel in their lives.
I´m so very grateful for the time that I have to serve and to learn from the Spirit all that the Lord wants me to be and to feel Him molding me into the person that He needs me to be so that this Great Work will march forward with greater strength and efficiency. I know that the Book of Mormon is true and that There is now greater happiness that we can receive than that which comes from the Spirit as we give our all and show our love for the Savior as we are willingly obedient and make heartfelt covenants and keep them sacred. For all those out there getting ready to serve a mission... Do it, there will never come a greater experience to help you become who the Lord expects of us as we serve a full time mission. the mission is the best! Study Preach my Gospel and the Book of Mormon every day and the Lord will prepare you to serve in His great work! He lives, let us make known this great message to everyone who is willing to listen to it. I love you all!
Love,
Elder Gardner
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