02-01-10

We are traveling today, on a trip for the zone, so while the zone leaders are sending some forms in, I'm typing you an email. We are going to see some cool sights. That’s all I know.

This week went really well. We found some amazing people to work with. We’re teaching a little boy named Fernando. We call him Fernandito, it means little Fernando. He is eight and is going to get baptized this February. His aunt is a member. He is so funny. I like teaching him. Yesterday we asked him about Joseph Smith and he asked us which one, because there is a cartoon he knows called Joseph Smith too. Julio is doing really well, he’s going to a professional to get help. He hasn´t drunk again, and so if he's doing well in two months he can get baptized. And this week Claudia, an investigator, she got her answer about the Book of Mormon!!!! It is so cool, she has been praying for a while now, and she said that she has felt a difference in her life since she started meeting with us. And the other day when she was praying about the Book of Mormon, she said that she had an amazing feeling of happiness and a really warm, uplifting sensation that she knew was from God. I don´t know exactly what her sensation was, but she really and truly was praying to know if it is of God. She has been reading the Book of Mormon with the women from church here during the week. We are still working with her, hopefully she will accept a baptismal date this week. We are meeting with her tonight.

Things are going amazing here. I taught Sunday School again yesterday, and it went so well. I taught about how Cain fell and about agency. It went so well. It is cool to teach Sunday School, we switch off every week. It is interesting to see how Cain was the son of Adam, a prophet. He obviously was raised in the truth and yet he had his agency. He chose to follow Satan, even when he could talk directly with the Lord. I talked about when Cain had to make a sacrifice, but he decided not to do what the Lord had asked- he gave a sacrifice of fruit instead of a sacrifice of the first of his flock. But we talked about how we sometimes do that too. The Lord has given us commandments, but sometimes we don´t obey and we think it is okay to do less than what He has asked. And that this is what Satan wants. And like Cain, when we trick ourselves into thinking it's okay to not keep a commandment 100%, we are going to fall and be miserable like he was. It’s interesting, you probably had the same lesson yesterday.

I want to write more, but we are leaving!!!

PS Next week there are changes! I think I'll stay here in San Pablo.