While looking threw the area book, I can across a name - Luca - and for some reason the missionaries stopped going by his house. Curious, I went by and found his girlfriend, Ingrid, and their beautiful baby girl, Paz. We taught Ingrid a little bit of the plan of salvation, then with a family from the ward we went by and taught Luca a few days later. When we went by again a few days later to see how reading the Book of Mormon was going, they told us that had read all of 1 Nefi (about 60 pages) in just 2 days!!! Wow!! They are really involved with asking us good questions and even came to play football with us one night. They even cooked us an asado, only after knowing us for a week! Hahaha they are AWESOME!!! We also received a reference for a man named David. He lives in a part of my area that's a little dangerous, so I wasn't too sure about going to look for him... but I decided to trust in the Lord to see if He wanted us to find this man and teach him. Lo and behold, the first time we try to locate the house, we found him outside with his mom, and we asked if we could share a quick message. They allowed it, and what we taught was what they needed to hear. They have been going through some tough times, and as a result, have experienced some temptations and vices from Satan. But they told us that they are looking for ways to quit, so we left them with a Word of Wisdom booklet and we are going to help them literally change their lives!!
Emmanuel and Estella are doing great! They are planning for baptism on the 25th, and they both came to church yesterday!!! I can see the gospel changing their lives and helping them come unto Christ! Keep them in our prayers please!!! They need all the love you can send them!!!
This week in Ven, Sìgueme was awesome! We read about the family of Lehi and his sons Nefi, Sam, Laman and Lemuel. Many good insights I could write to yall about but the one that sticks out to me is the importance they had for studying and loving the Word of God (the scriptures!) They made the long and dangerous trip back to Jerusalem and faced several dangerous failed attempts from the evil Laban, including trials between their family relationship, all to bring back heavy brass plates. How many of us would do all that work, including losing everything you had, just to bring back some scriptures? Pres Russel M Nelson said in General Conference a few years ago
"My brothers and sisters, how precious is the Book of Mormon to you? If you were offered diamonds or rubies or the Book of Mormon, which would you choose? Honestly, which is of greater worth to you?"
That quote always impacted me...would I chose diamonds or the Book of Mormon? or some nice rubies over the other holy scriptures? Perhaps we may inherently do this as we put our personal lives and temporal objects over the short time everyday to read, study and learn from the voice of God from the dust.
Those brass plates played a huge role in the story of the Book of Mormon...without them, Lehi and the other prophets wouldn't have been able to share the precious truths of the Gospel of Christ with their peoples hundreds of years after their journey to the promised land. We read that other nations who failed to have and or keep a record of the scriptures dwindled in unbelief, became apostate, and eventually perished as a result of their iniquity (Mulekites, Lamanites, Jaredites, etc). In other words, we wouldn't have the Book of Mormon if the Lord did not mandate Lehi`s sons back to Jerusalem for such a difficult task. So, as we come closer unto Christ this year (and decade) ponder and pray to see if perhaps the role the scriptures play in your life could be magnified as we improve and use the Savior`s "infinite atonement" for all our sins and mistakes, big and small alike
Love you all! I forgot to bring my camera with me...but enjoy the video below!! Cuidensen!!!
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