3/19/2012

What a great week!

We had a conference with President Hall, and learned a lot about
families. They talked a lot about how our mission will help our
families in the future, and it made everyone a little trunky.
They even joked about how finding investigators is like trying to find
a wife; you need to talk to everyone, and ask for references and so
on... just a few more months, and I´ll be ready to apply these
principes in my dating life...haha...

We´´re teaching a really great woman named Morganna. She´s basically a
member already, but she needs to get married before she can get
baptised. She´s been inviting all her family and friends to come to
church, and this week, when we went to teach her, there were 6
teenage girls who wanted to hear our message too. They really just
wanted to flirt with us, but in the end they accepted the invite to
come to church, and read the Book of Mormon etc... they´re all
progressing now, and I think we´ll start to baptise some of them this
week. 9 people came to church this Sunday and we´ll start to baptise
all these people next week.

Yesterday, we were relaxing at home after lunch, when we heard a ton
of fireworks exploding outside our house. When I went outside to see
what it was, there were about 500 horseback riders coming down the
steet in front of our house. It took more that 15 minutes for all of
them to pass. I really don´t know how many horses there were, but it
was the biggest group of horses that I´d ever seen in my life.

That night, we visited Morganna, and she was having a bad head ache.
In church, she´d learned about priesthood, so we offered to give her a
blessing. It was the first time that Elder Ortega had annoited someone
with oil, and then I gave the blessing afterwards. The spirit was
really stong. When I finished the blessing, she looked at me and
asked, "Is the headache supposed to stop right away?" I just said,
"uh...I don´t know..." and then she said, "because it´s totally gone
now! Thankyou so much!" I felt so good when she said that :) I have a
stonger testimony now that the priesthood really is the power of God
on the earth, and that miracles exist when we have faith.

I hope you have a great week. I love all of you guys, and I know that
we can be happy as a family through the gospel of Jesus Christ.
I´ll send more photos next week if I can.

Love, Elder Forsyth