Hey Everyone,
Sorry I didn't write
on Monday. Today we have Temple P-Day so I just came from an endowment session.
I was very peaceful and I feel very comforted about a lot of things that
happened in the past two transfers. Everything seems to be calming down a lot,
BUT we have great news that we've set 3 baptismal dates this week. One is Flor
who is older Colombian woman who lives in the house behind recent converts in
our area Dora and her daughter Janet. They are very good friends with her and
she loves the missionaries and the church. Because they are so close, her
transition into the church will go really well. We have a dinner set up with
her tonight; she makes some awesome Colombian food. The rice is really good
because it's really salty, how I like it. The second is Luis, a 21 year old who
we've been in contact for along time but he's been busy with work and school
and we haven't seen him very often. But now he's opened up his schedule, his
coming to play soccer with on P days and he's wants to meet with us 3 times a
week. We had a church tour with him this last Friday where we showed him around
the classrooms, library, gym, and the chapel. He felt super peaceful and happy
inside the chapel and he felt like it’s a special room that cut off from the
rest of the world. The best part of the tour is that we were able to talk about
all different topics of the gospel. We watched several Mormon Messages on his
phone including the "Testimony of the Book of Mormon" with Elder
Holland and the "What is Light" Segments with Elder Bednar. I absolutely
loved them and I recommend everyone to watch them. He's come to the conclusion
to himself that the Book of Mormon is true and Joseph Smith is a prophet, and
he's getting ready to be baptized on the 14th of October. The last one is
Paula! Yeah we found her again at home, and she had been praying this past
month to come back. She's already in Alma in the Book of Mormon and she loved
the Restoration movie that we left with her. We had a lesson where we went over
the baptismal interview questions and she has a testimony of everything,
EVERYTHING! She's committed herself to come to church so she can be baptized on
the 21st of October. YEAH! So it’s been a great week with Missionary Work. On
Sunday, We had Stake conference and Elder Johnson from the Seventy came again.
In LA there is one Spanish stake, Huntington Park West that covers the whole
southern portion of Los Angeles. It was actually the first Spanish stake ever
organized. But Sunday they totally dissolved the Huntington Park West Stake,
and integrated the wards into the English stakes. BIG CHANGE. The primary
purpose of the change is to better prepare the youth of today to lead the
Church tomorrow. The Spanish and English units in each stake will work together
to establish common primary and youth classes taught in English. Adult classes
will continue to be taught separately for each ward. It's exciting news, so now
I'm serving in Los Angeles Stake. Cool Stuff. One more thing, Elder Walker and
I ran into a hobo on the street we found at very beginning of the transfer. Her
name is Tex and she's a Navajo Indian that was foster raised by members of the
church. Super funny lady. Last time Elder Walker gave her an extra pocket knife
that he had on him. She told us that she had stabbed 2 men who had tried to
attack her. Los Angeles is CRAZY! Other than that, Life is great and I know the
gospel is true. President Packer said that "The study of the doctrine of
Christ will change the behavior of men a lot faster than the study of behavior
will change behavior." So true!
Os amo tanto!
Elder Marrott
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