Week 45: The spirit is real, may we all follow it.

How is everyone one in the big ole fam doing!? 

I heard that is snowed in the SLC! Super loco! It's almost May right!? I guess everyone can get there last snowball fights and sleigh rides in. Ha but here the weather is going up and down. Some days it is super windy and super cold and other days it is calm as can be and a bit caliente! But to begin like always we have the funny sad story of the week. 

So this week we had the stake conference and we missionaries were asked to sing a musical number. So we being all busy and stuff only practiced 2 times before the conference arrived.. yikes. So toward the end of the conference the time arrived for us to sing in front of everyone, and even worse I was the one chosen to conduct.. So we all get ready and right when we start I realize that the only two sisters that our in our zone are going to be singing right in front of the microphone, and they were both a little sick, so we´ll say their voices werent so pretty. While they sang the first verse their voices went up and down unable to control the pich, everyone in the congregation was a little startled, but at least were able to finish strong. 

Also in the conference it was awesome to hear our President speak in the both sessions! I love listening to President because he speaks from the heart, and even better both of his talks were centered on helping and supporting the missionaries and the missionary work. He had everyone laughing from jokes and crying for spiritual experiences, and by the end everyone was super pumped to jump into the work. He said 30,000 more missionaries have been called for this reason, they have been called in order to strengthen the wards and stakes all around the world. And that does not only happen through bautisms, it happens throught the rescue, the retention, every one member that helps in the work will have his testimony stengthened, and by that way the ward will be strengthened. GO PRES!

Angel, our dear friend, is going strong for bautism! He will be baptized the 3rd of May. He had a tough week last week, but he was able to persevere. Satan always attacks harder when a child of God is close to bautism, it's incredible, happens everytime without fail. Another evidence of the true church. Juan Carlos is progressing well. He is getting to know all the members because he came to one of the dance classes with his wife last week haha. He was tricked into thinking that there would be soccer haha.

We were also able to find some other awesome investigadors and families this last week by knocking doors and doing divisions with the members, miracles always happen when the members come to work with us. 

To finish, I want to talk about how to follow the spirit. When we live worthily we are constantly receiving impressions from the spirit. The other day I received a super strong impression to talk with this family at a bus stop, so i followed it. They rejected our message, not even wanting to shake our hands. After I thought what was the purpose of that spiritual impression? Pres told me something I won't forget, he said sometimes our Heavenly Father just wants to see if we were going to follow the impression or not. When the thought enters your mind you are now responsible to follow or no. The more often we follow impressions the more our Heavenly Father will trust in us, knowing that when he sends the thought we will act upon it. 

I love you all! The church is true! The spirit is real, may we all follow it. 

con amor 

elder watts