Hey fam!
How are all of you! Sounds like you are all doing great which makes me so happy! My prayers individually and the prayers in conference are truly answered "to bless the families of the missionaries to have comfort and peace"(sat morning). We have seen many miracles this week, especially with our recent converts and less-actives.
I truly learned the importance of a true conversion in a person. As we went and visited a less-active who is 14 and is the only member in his family he said something that truly hit me. We have been trying to gain his confidence this past week .and the other day he just opened up and said the missionaries that taught me just pressured me into being baptized because the one elder was leaving for his house so he said "Ah Ronald you need to get baptized before I leave." Wait, what? So falling into the pressure he got baptized and like he said the day of his baptism was, that he remembers, a little wet. However, we have been visiting him and he also came to the general conference and said, "Now I am feeling the change that I should have felt on the day of my baptism!" This really opened my eyes to importance of a personal conversion and its lasting effects on our lives. And as Packer said this last conference, "It doesn’t matter how many NUMBERS we have in the church but in the end we will be judged and measured as a church by the spiritual strength of our individual members". That is you! Please take the time to seek personal revelation in order to gain your PERSONAL testimony planted firm in this gospel and this testimony you create will lead you to you divine potential. Each needs a change of heart, especially the members of this church. And help other members make this change of heart also through visiting and home teaching!
Lizbeth and Claudio are continuing to get their paper together for their marriage. They are still so excited, waiting for this day to follow the commandments of God! Sadly, they weren’t able to come to the conference because they needed to go to Lima to have an operation done for their little baby. Pray for them!
Two other investigators of ours came for almost all of Saturday and Sunday! And what was so amazing is we were waiting for one of our investigators who is a young mom to come the entire day but didn’t so we just thought she wasn’t going to come at all. However, miracle, guess what talk she caught right at the tail end? BEDNAR! Which was perfect! I was so thankful in that moment to Heavenly Father for bringing her to the doors of the chapel in that very moment!
We have been working a lot and making a lot a progress with our less-actives this last week. As we have been getting to know these less-actives the first thing we always ask them is, "Are you reading and praying?" Almost always the answer is NO. Like Elder Scott said this conference, "As members, Satan makes us get caught up in the appendages of the gospel rather than the simple truths and foundations." We must not forget to do the simple things but at times we do not do it because of the simpleness of the way. But as Scott says, "We many need to prioritize our time to read the word of God. So DO IT!” It’s that simple. Haha love it.
Well, that was my week! I absolutely loved this conference. It inspired me in so many ways and allowed me to point out many, many of my weaknesses! But what really caught me was when they talked about our patriarchal blessings, "Are we living in such a way that we will receive the blessings that it promises?" We each have a divine potential as sons and daughters of God but it is not set in stone. We need to work for it! So I urge you to read you PB and make goals and changes in your life to reach your divine potential!
I love each and every one of you! Thank you for your prayers. I can feel them each day! Until next week...keep smiling!
Love, Jess
Conference!
Hermana Celia from our Ward. She is 92 and still walks to church every Sunday. She gave us her hats as gifts.
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