February 22, 2010

Hey everybody como estamos?

Wow this week was amazing it truly was we went to this guys house that we had a return appt for last Monday and we taught him lesson 1 and he has a wife and 2 kids and one of his kids is ten and the other is 4 but the lesson was amazing. He doesn't have much of a religious background so it was pretty easy to teach him. Everything was making so much sense to him. His name is Victor, and we gave him a Book of Mormon and had him read the promise in it, in Moroni, and he was stumbling over the words so we didn't think he understood what it meant but after he got done reading it he said "wow thats so true" and he went off to explain the scripture perfectly and we didn't have to explain anything but we just bore our testimony and it was just great. And then we gave him the section to read in 3rd Nephi, and I said he could read it with his kids before they go to bed and he said they read the bible each night together and he said he would read it with them. So we invited him again to be baptized again for the 14th and he accepted. But then we went back 2 days later and he let us in and we asked him if he had a chance to read and he said he did and we were stoked and he read it with his FAMILY and I was grinning from ear to ear. His wife was walking in the hallway, I said hi, and she came down and sat and listened and she said the chapter we gave her talked so much about baptism. We have a new approach for baptism now we call it the reigno the "kingdom of God" and we focus on, that without baptism it´s impossible to get there and its the first step. So we taught her lesson 1 to catch her up with her husband. We invited them to come to church and they said they were going to come.
So Sunday rolls around and guess who come walking in the door and they came early it was Them, i WAS FREAKING OUT it was so awesome. They really like it. It was great also we had like 37 people at church because a bunch of people were there from vacation but it was nice to have a bunch of people in church. We have a noche de hogar planned with them a family home evening with our golden investigators our family they are truly awesome we are going to watch the restoration with them and their kids and they are going to make completos wihich are Fancy hot dogs. They said they want to start the Book of Mormon from the beginning. This week was a complete turn around it was amazing.

So yeah we are defiantly going to have some baptisms in march so everybody pray for Victor and Margarita and their son that all goes well. Our shower got fried it´s an electric shower so we have been taking cold showers this week it really wakes you up if you know what I mean, but it´s a good exercise. Today we had a zone activity and went to this old battle ground fort where there were bats in these tunnels, it was sweet. Ill send some pics next week when I have more time. We played ultimate Frisbee on this beach where nobody was, it was sweet. Well sorry it´s kinda short but I gotta go and hope everybody is doing well.

Love Elder Nichols