January 16, 2010

It went through eh? Well that was easy enough. My current Companion Elder W. will start at BYU-I that semester as well. Speaking of companions we have a new one here at the office, Elder J. of Salt Lake ( I think) just came in.

In other bug news we started going out at night and have been blessed richly for our efforts. On Thursday night we went on splits so Diego (a kid going on a mission in a bit here) and I went out to work in the area near his house. After contacting some of his friends and neighbors without much success we were heading over to visit a Brother's house in the area and we ran into Sidney. After talking with him a bit, inviting him to church (to which he said yes) and asking if we could leave a message with him we got to meet some of his other family members (his "wife" with whom he has been living together with for 17 years and their 3 kids though only 2 were home that night) He has been a member of several different churches the most recent being the Baptist, but he described himself as inactive but wanting to stay firm in a certain denomination with his family. What a blessing he will get in the true church of Jesus Christ where we know that as we make and fulfill our covenants in the temple with may receive the promised blessing of being with our families for time and all eternity. Pretty much the whole family is going to go to church tomorrow and we hope to help them get married asap to help them prepare to one day receive the fullness of the blessings God has in store for them.

I was talking with a good friend Elder S. at transfers while we were all together here in the Salvador stake center and we had an interesting discussion about things that we are learning. He said something that kind of struck that I have been trying to apply in the work here. Why question promptings to do good things? Just do them. I feel that we found Sidney because I was trying to apply that principle.

I know this is God's work and that our family will be eternal if we but do our part, those small and simple things that allow the Lord to guide us and shape our lives and characters. In the name of Jesus Christ, amém.

Jacob