April 12, 2011

Hello Family,
That´s crazy it´s still snowing and being cold up there this late in the year. I guess it´ll be better to have lots of water versus drought, as long as it doesn´t flood (anything in excess is bad, apparently). Sounds like everything is still busy with basketball and everything. That´s cool that you guys were able to go to the spring scrimmage (BYU's Blue and White game last Saturday). Sounds like everyone´s getting a lot more into football and everything than before. This season will be fun to get back into the football mode. Sounds like Christi is busy too, getting ready for finals and everything. Hopefully everything goes well with my scholarship. It was kind of a hard thing to find online when I applied too; it was kind of hidden; little buggers.

On Monday and Tuesday we couldn´t get a hold of Marta, and we were afraid we were going to lose her somehow, but we found her Wednesday and had a very awesome lesson. After attending the session of Conference, Marta felt very strongly that President Monson is a prophet. The messages really touched her, but she felt like she wasn´t really doing her part in order to really accept the gospel and to make the step of baptism. She still hadn´t attended church on a Sunday, and she just realized how important of a blessing the gospel is and that she didn´t really realize that before. We were able to testify to her that we have really felt all these blessings in our lives and if she does her part she will have these blessings for her and her family. Then on Sunday, she came to church! And it was really awesome! All of the members greeted her. She was able to talk with the Bishop and meet him, and the Relief Society and all the members. The ward was really excited! We´re finally going to have a baptism in the Plata, for the fist time since last June! Her baptism is going to be this Sunday, and quite a few of her friends and family are going to come, so it will be a really good opportunity to find new people to teach also! Then, when we visited her Sunday with Hermano Chalupa (the guy with the cool name(: ), she talked about all of the changes she´s felt and seen in her life since we clapped her house. She is very prepared. The baptism is going to be a wonderful experience Sunday, and really a miracle that we´ve been praying for for a long time. We hope to be able to find a lot more people this week to teach so that we can help the ward get more consistent and meet the mission goal that every area baptizes every month.

I know that the gospel of Jesus Christ blesses every one of God´s children and that this really is his work. I love you guys and I´ll talk to you next week.

PS- I didn´t forget get Dad´s birthday; I just decided I wanted to write happy birthday this week.) Happy Birthday Dad!!

Happy Birthday Mikayla; hopefully your party doesn´t include too much drama.

Love, David