From Mountaintown to Holy Cross

                                                                                               January 22, 2018
Hi Family!

 

This week was great!  We spent a lot of time on the road because the zone is very spread out. One District is in Villamontes (Mountaintown) about 1 hour and a half away, and the other is 4 hours away in Camiri. On Wednesday, we went to Mountaintown to do baptismal interviews. It was a very long day, but at the end we got to teach Felix! 

We met Felix at church last Sunday. He has been going for several years and I don't know why the missionaries haven't been teaching him because he is ready! His wife Ingrid is a member and she has really been encouraging him and supporting him. He has set a baptismal date for February 3rd and we are really excited for him!

On Thursday night we went to Santa Cruz (another 9 hour bus ride) for a special Conference with Elder Falabella of the Seventy!

Almost all of the mission was there, so I got to see lots of old friends and Olga sent Elder Matheson with some chocolate chip cookies which was a definite highlight!It was probably the best and most helpful Conference I have attended in my life. The past few weeks I had been getting a bit lazy and just wasn't feeling good about the work I was doing and this Conference was exactly what I needed! He spoke a lot about our potential and about being FULL-TIME missionaries! We have to be dedicated to this work every second of every day and it is something I have been trying to do since then!

We also talked about obedience...as we learn in the scriptures, God has sent us here to see if we will do all things that He commands us. There is no time in life when we have more commandments to keep than in the mission, and he taught us that we will never in our lives have another opportunity like this to show Heavenly Father that we will do ALL THINGS He commands us. 

I am grateful for our leaders. I know they are called of God, from the Branch President to President Russell M. Nelson. He uses imperfect men to bring about a perfect work and this is His true church!

He will never abandon us or forget us because He is our Father!

Love,

Elder Harris