4/17/2017

Well this week's adversity was completely anticipated given last week

was insanely miraculous hahaha. One thing I love about the Gospel of

Jesus Christ is that if we have a strong foundation and abide in his

love even challenges and can be a joyful experience. This week was

honestly fantastic straight up. Little different outline this week

tho! Investigators:

Jared Gonzalez: he's 8 and his dad is fairly inactive (making a

comeback) he's getting baptized this coming weekend. April 23! We

taught him almost everything so far. He's a super smart kid and

definitely wants to make this choice on his own. Freakin love him

hahaha. He asked me to confirm him.

Monse Castillo: she is Jared's mom. She's been investigating the

church for years straight up. Her and her boyfriend haven't picked a

date for marriage yet but keep them in your prayers! She wants to get

baptized so bad....🤙🏼🙏🏼

Ether y Raul Fines: they are from El Salvador (s/o to Eli Wade again)

and didn't make it to church this week:/ flaked on us. But they really

want to see a baptism before they decide on their own to become

members so this week will be perfect for that!

Lopez Family: Dad-Candilario, Mom- Maria, Kids- Omar, Christina,

Itzel, and a little baby boy. They came to church again this week!! He

only thing is we literally haven't been able to get in and teach them

any lessons, but they've came to all our events and meetings. Have an

Appt this week and we're hoping to push for baptism 🤙🏼

Itzel y Karina Aguirre: they chicas are like 21 and 25 are progressing

so well but just cannot come to church...they're the ones who threw a

BDay party for me 🎉 Itzel has work schedule problems and Karina is a

flojera right now... step by step with them!

District Update: I love being District Leader! Especially when you get

to see others having success in their areas of work! One thing I've

done well so far is following up with all the missionaries in the

district on commitments that I've given them or that we've all been

given. One of which is inviting investigators to be baptized in the

first lessons through initially establishing our purpose with them and

then following through at the end. One example. We had a very fun and

spiritual District Meeting on Wednesday and centered everything upon

the Atonement of Jesus Christ. One thing that struck out to me is that

if we truly recognize the role which the Savior's Atonement plays in

our lives our desire and capacity to share it with others will grow

exponentially.

Companion Background: Elder Hatch is from Twin Falls, Idaho. He has a

twin brother serving in Houston and was a wrestler 🤼 football player,

and is super hard working. He's been out for 7 and 1/2 months. He's

pretty solid at Spanish as well!

Spiritual Moment: This week I had the opportunity to testify of the

Plan of Salvation specifically, a lot more than usual. One thing stuck

out to me this week. I asked dozens of people what they thought the

purpose of this life is, and no one could give me an answer. How

blessed are we to know our divine purpose as sons and daughters of God

here on this earth. I know that God had a plan before this life for us

to come here and to learn and grow (through experience), to have

bodies and families just like he does, so that eventually we can

return back to his presence with the relationships we've made and the

knowledge we've gained. I know families are forever. I know that

trials are a part of us becoming who God knows and wants us to be.

Brother and Sister Heap and the Heap family I love all of you. I know

this is true. There's no way it isn't.

Elder Macdonald

 

 

 

 Feliz Pascua 🐣🐣🐣

 Happy Easter everybody!!!! I hope you all

enjoyed the weekend and the opportunity the world took to celebrate

Jesus Christ and his Atonement! I'm not going to lie holidays on the

mission are so weird hahaha. Something about this time of year (just

like Christmas) where every seems a bit more happier:)