Week 43: We have the choice to decide what type of member we want to be.

Hey, how is every doing after the best week of the year!?! Are your batteries still charged!? If not, watch conference again! Ha but this week was awesome, I am finally started to know exactly where I am in the crazy city, with all the back streets and all! Still getting used to the big city! I have heard also that this coming week is the Semana De Turismo, so it should be fun! But like always we will start of the letter with the short little funny story of the week. 

The first little funny story has to do with our ward building haha. In our sacrament room in the back there is a glass case that has something that all the world wants to see... the GOLD PLATES OF THE BOM! Haha it's pretty funny all the members say the plates were moved to Montevideo for protection haha. But it's a pretty good lookin replica. Other short little funny story happended when we were walking on the main street and there is a lot of homeless people (pretty sad), but there was one sitting down with a big puddle in front of him, and while I walked over her puddle she screams 'Heyy!! dont touch my pool!!!' Haha she had a pretty good sense of humor haha.

But this week with our boss investigador Angel didn't get baptized, we moved his fecha to the 3rd of May, so that he will be super prepared and so that he can stenghten his testimony in the BOM, so all is good with him. Also this week we found an awesome couple knocking doors. I had a super strong feeling to knock on the door when I saw it and we found Abraham and Mercedes with their baby right after. She invited us in right when we knocked! We later found out that she got baptized when she was little in Peru, but stopped going to church a long time ago. She was super happy that she we had found her, and she couldn't wait to go to church, and she wasn't lying because she came this week with her sister and her kids! It was super awesome! I have a feeling that she was praying so that the missionaries would find her. It's cool how the spirit works. 

Also this week we have been working with our bishop and the members, our bishop really is a boss! He is the first bishop that presented himself to all the new people that came to church and then later introduced them to ward so that everyone would greet them! He is awesome! We have a bunch of return missionaries too, and we put them to work by attacking streets with them. We all split up and give them about 10 folletos for each person, and then we just talk with every one in sight. It works out pretty well, missonary for all your life! 

To finish I want to say I love and apreciate you all! Something I have noticed this week is that we have the choice to decide what type of member we want to be. A telestial member, a terrestial or a celestial member. Our goal in this life is not only to return to our Heavenly Father, because if that was the case, why would we have left in the first place? The real goal is to become like him, and this is only possible through Jesus Christ and his infinite atonment. I am so grateful for my Savior and Redeemer, because through Him we can all progress and be changed into the people that we were created to be.

I love you all again fam and friends,

elder watts