irst things first, thank you so much dad for being worthy of inspiration and revelation for me, i know and testify that the Lord works in the strangest and most unexpected ways, but a great part of the Lord's work that i am doing has been moved by you so thank you. Hermano Máximo, who is the most humble, nice, faithful, and righteous man, has worked here in a mine for 3 years, and the last 2 has come to church, but his struggle was that his wife lives 15 hours away and they werent married, so my companion and i visited him about a month and a half ago for 2 weeks and got him animated to go to Piura and get married, so like a great man, he did all that was possible to animate his wife and plead her to prepare everything, so she did, had all the documents ready, and miraculously came here to Huamachuco, something she said she would never do. sadly, when she came a member that works with him who is also from piura, disanimated him and his wife saying that it would be better for them and their family to get married there and that there is a strong ward that would be happy to baptize him. (the brother that said all this also teaches apostasy at church, which is a struggle for us) anyways, as the Lord had planned, hermano Máximo went to Piura and got married, and came back here, and i randomly was talking to him about another baptism that we are going to have this friday for hermano Paul, and he mentioned very calmly and privately that he wanted to know if he could program his baptism for this week so that he could go home saturday with the news that he got baptized. like any missionary, especially one who knows how great and powerful potential this man has in the church and his future, i laughed/screamed/cried and called my companion over and some brethren and we planned it all for friday! also, paul, who is someone who has listened to the missionaries for over a year, came here about a month ago to live with his sister pamela, our old pensionist, and last week, even though he knows all the lessons by memory and said all the missionaries wanted to baptize him, i knew there was a reason he came to live here and be in a much greater environment, last thursday i taught him something very simple, prayer, and although he said he had prayed and never received an answer, i felt like i should share Moroni 10 and to my surprise, none of the missionaries had ever shared it, so he was so impressed that he prayed that night and friday had a testimony of the BoM and Joseph Smith, and passed his baptismal interview friday, (the first interview ive seen longer than an hour and a half) but after a call to President Turk, he was able to feel the power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ and is now ready for this Friday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! cant express how happy i am in these moments, and how thankful i am to all of my brothers and sisters including in-laws for your kind and strengthening words always that give more power to your examples. also for my parents and grandparents for the love and support you all give me. last great news, september 4th i will be in the presence of an apostle of the Lord! we have a conference with Elder D. Todd Christofferson and it will be more than uplifting and motivating!!!!!!!!!!!!!! will send pictures following right now as you all read! love and miss you all. tell christian he is obcviously and definitely going to receive his beanie and if he would like he can tell me colors, a name he wants on it, a number, etc. maybe one for his club team that matches? i can make him one for that and another to add to his flavorful style ha. anyone can make pleads if they would like! oh yeah cant forget....garrett holsenbake sent me a letter that made my whole mission worth it to be honest, he amazed me, and hopefully brandon as bishop(congrats! haha) can help him and all of you as well in meeting his goals!!! mom call him and tell him i love and miss him and am responding to his letter! did you give him the last one i sent?
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