November 15, 2010 - Kevan

Hey family!

How is everyhting? THis week was a pretty great and also stressful work! But overall, GREAT! I was really suprised to get my travel itinerary. Pretty crazy!

So yesterday we baptized 3 people. Marta, Aurelio and Oscar Guardia. It was a great baptism and i felt the Spirit really strong. It was awesome. The little unity we have here is growing so much. The stake gave us 6 more months to see what we can do. So it all depends on the elders that serve. They need to have about 20 assist and 4 payers of tithing that have the Melquisedec Priesthood. yesterday we did have 20 assistances and 4 Holders of the Melquisedec Priesthood. But we need to help them really be active and actually pay tithing. That is the biggest thing they need.

We had 24 baptism fechas going into sunday. We were way excited. WE baptized Marta and her family in the morning and went to our meeting in the evening way excited ready for the people to come. We were execting 17 to come. Sadly, only 6 went. Those people are amazing though and truly will be blessed for what they did. I was so happy for them. The others ones just lied to us. I dont know why they did not come at all. They said they would. But hopefully they will keep gaining stronger testimonies to eventually assist one day. in the escuela dominical they taught about sacrifice. That is such a great topic. I think when we can truly realize what Jesus Christ did for us in the Atonement we will realize that He truly asks for us to do little things. Going to church here in 9 de Julio for 1 hour is NOTHING!! especially compared to Christ and even to many of the saints now and in the past. But we need to help them. It could be that they are not ready, dont want to commit or many other things. We will need to follow the Holy Ghost to know erally what to do with these people.

This week went by way fast though. We tried hard to focus on the people that we had fechas with. In the first 3 weeks we found about 150 new investigators. So we slowed that down a bit and wenty aroud to those people really get a firm teaching pool. Now we have done that and know who really will progress and we will start the finding process again this week.

My trainee is doing great. He is speaking so well and is being blessed. We get a long but really do not have much in common. But we both love teaching the gospel and we love God and that is what we really need right now.

Thanks for everything family! i hope that everything goes great this week. Know that i love all of you and am so grateful for the prayers and faith that you are all giving me and my investigators.

I know that this is the true Gospel of Jesus Christ. I am so grateful for and know that President Monson is the true prophet on the earth! What an amazing blessing for us to this in this despensation. The Restoration is amazing!"

Con mucho amor,

Elder Kevan Bills