The Lord is ALWAYS There to Help You

Email received 4/30/13

HEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey SO SORRY that this is late!!!!!!!!!!!! So Bocas is WAY far  from the city and every once in a while we lose power here. So yesterday we lost power and it didn´t come back on until like 30 minutes ago. Anyways, it´s still going pretty dang good here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Last week was a little crazy but it´s still good. Last Friday, we went to David (a 5 hour bus ride) for a training. It was pretty cool. I learned a ton of cool stuff and I think I finally convinced President Ward to let me stay here longer than 2 changes ;) Ha ha but we´ll see what happens. But yeah it was a pretty good training. President was really happy with our zone because we had a total of 7 baptisms last month and 6 the month before that (Bocas usually only gets 1 or 2  per month) The only bad thing about the training was we had to leave at 3 in the morning to get there on time and then we left that same day and got back at 10 pm. So It was pretty tiring!!!!!!!! Yeah I got the birthday cards and I was SUPER HAPPY to hear all of your voices!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That was SO COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks so much for that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyways, my investigators are doing pretty dang good!!!!!!!!!!!! We´re going to have another baptism this Sunday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We´re baptizing a guy named Alchamedez. He´s SUPER COOL!!!!!!!!!!!! He´s been coming to church pretty much every week for like 2 years but just now made the decision to get baptized. It´s going to be pretty sweet!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hermana Claribell and her family are doing GREAT too!!!!!!!!!! They´re reading the Book of Mormon and praying and doing everything they´re supposed to do. It´s pretty sweet!!!!!!!!!!!! Our other investigators are doing pretty well too. They´re all progressing pretty fast.

Spiritual experience of the week... It was pretty sweet, a lot of our investigators keep telling us that they need more time to prepare to get baptized but pretty much all of them are ready. So it got me thinking about how a lot of times we don´t give ourselves enough credit. EVERY SINGLE PERSON in this world is capable of doing ANYTHING they put there minds to!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is something that you and daddy have taught us all throughout our lives and I REALLY STRONGLY believe in this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The only thing that´s stopping us from reaching our potential is ourselves. We think that we´re not good enough, smart enough, or whatever other stupid reason. We just need to rely in the Lord and when we do that, we can accomplish ANYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Elder Montero´s doing pretty good. Ha ha yesterday for P-day we got permission to go to Costa Rica so he was SUPER EXCITED about that!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ha ha but yeah it was pretty dang fun!!!!!!!!!!!! We went to a beach and played soccer and I got some Costa Rican money. And now I can say that I´ve officially been in 3 countries!!!!!!!!!!! Ha ha yeah it was a pretty sweet p-day.

Yeah I get A TON more chances to teach now. Montero is SUPER GOOD at that!!!!!!!!!! So my Spanish is progressing pretty dang good!!!!!!!!!!!! I´m also proud to say that I gained the respect from the Latins. Ha ha yep, so I´m basically a Latin now ;)

The members here are pretty sweet. They help out whenever they can. And It´s cool because I´m pretty good friends with a lot of them now so yeah this branch I´m in has definately been my favorite!!!!!!!!!!

It sounds like you guys are all doing pretty dang good!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That´s SWEET that Max is the Publicity chair!!!!!!!!!!!!! Tell him that, that´s the BEST job!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Because you know marketing is pretty much they best part of business and Publicity is part of marketing :) And no, I haven´t heard anything about Mother´s day. But I´m pretty sure that we can skype here in Bocas. But I might be in another area during Mother´s day so we´ll have to see.

Anyways, I´m glad you guys are doing GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Keep having fun and ALWAYS remember that the Lord is ALWAYS there to help you WHENEVER you need him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I´m SUPER PROUD of all of you and I love and miss you all SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!