Hey Everybody,
Sorry that I didn't write on Monday, its temple day
today so we are doing all our preparation day stuff like email. We came super
early at 5 am for the temple session and it was still dark and they had the Christmas
lights on. They are super cool and fun, I will be going up to the temple Christmas
activity this Sunday, so hopefully I will have some pictures for you all soon.
This week was little frustrating and slow mainly because of health and car
problems. On Friday Elder Reeves got sick with the flu, so we had to turn in
early a couple days to he could heal up, but he's doing ok now. Also we've had
car problems all week and yesterday we spent the whole day at the shop so they
could replace the battery. No fun at all. HOWEVER, the best part of this week
is that we were able to recommit Fredrico to a baptismal date for the 23rd of
December. We taught him a lesson about the Gifts of the Spirit that we can
receive once we are baptized (look to Moroni 10) He really came to understand
the blessing that the Gift of the Holy Ghost is going to help him to his
conversion process and He no longer needs to wait to receive the ordinance
of baptism. We are looking forward to
that. This week as well was the Christmas Party at the church where the English
ward (Adams ward) Combined with our Spanish ward for a dinner on Saturday.
There was a lot of people there, unfortunately not of our investigators could
come. There was a lot of Food of every kind. Ham, Turkey, Tamales, Enchiladas,
you name it was there. And of course Santa came so it could get better than
that. Apparently the biggest news is going around here is the death of a
popular Latin singer Jennie Rivera. She died in a plane crash in Mexico, and
every Latino person we talk to is super upset. It's like Michael Jackson just
died again. I had no clue who she was but now I know. One cool story that I
heard this week was from a recent convert in our area named Jose Campos. He’s a
super nice guy and he works in LA as one of those Brinks truck drivers that
drives money to banks and business, etc... He told us stories about how people
tried to mug him. One time he was standing in front of a bank when a guy ran at
him with a sword. The guy tried to stab him but missed, then Jose punched the
lights out of the guy, and he's a pretty big man! I thought that was really
funny. We also heard something really interesting on Sunday in a meeting we had
with the Stake High Counselor over Missionary Work. He heard with all the
missionaries coming in soon that the quantity of all the missionaries will make
about 50 more missions! But because that's not possible, every mission will be
growing super-fast and more missionaries will be added to every mission. This
probably means many areas that missionaries cover will be divided in half. That
also means that amount of people that missionaries will teach will cut in half
too. That's the super sad thing. Many new missionaries come into the mission
with hopes to teach like crazy, but it will be sad if they come in and have no
one to teach. So what the church is demanding of every member is to provide
even more referrals for the missionaries to teach. We are dependent now on
member more than ever! Invite your friends to listen to the missionaries!!!
Remember in D&C 50 and our role to preach the gospel with the spirit. We
can teach the gospel more effectively and spiritually when they have a friend
in the gospel to help them. Keep on keeping on!
Os amo tanto
Elder Marrott
P.S. I heard through the grapevine that missionaries
are now being admitted into CHINA for three year missions!!!!! The work of God
continues!!!
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