december 12, 2012

Hey all, it was another great and super quick week for me.  Well let me just start off by saying that I have the packages and I have opened them.  Elder G and I had 12 mins of Christmas. hahah get it, 12 days, 12 mins. hahah Jk JKJK  Don{t worry we shall be waiting to open one gift each day.  Well now is time for the bad news.  You know how last week I said that Pres moved transfers to the 27.  Well that was denied by the district, so they moved it to this week.  We find out if anyone is leaving Sunday night, and they leave Monday night.  Bummer huh, so Yeah, we both think that Elder G will leave.  By the way he says thank you so much for the things that you got him. He loves you all so so much! Thank you!!!  

Well, on to this week. What a power house week it was.  I have to say the Lord has really been blessing us a lot lately.  First off, Julio and his mother came to church.  His wife couldn´t come, but next week she will.  How sweet is that.  Ohh what a great blessing that was.  Our class was about the spirit world and he had really good questions about it.  He loved it.  But wait there's more!! Our LA, Gustavo came to church, he has never come in the 5 months I´ve here.  He brought his friend, Alberto, who is our investigator also.  How sweet is that!! Such a great sight to see.  He loved church too, he just is awesome.  His wife is active and so are his kids, but he isn´t.  I have to say, doing all the service for him, giving him a pair of my pants, and a tie, has really helped out.  Well that´s what we have been doing with him, cleaning a bunch of new things and all that.  SO great.  

Well yeah, it was good. I was so happy to see so many people really grasping what we have been teaching.  It was such a great heart warming experience to see these people really wanting to know more.  Also Enrique is doing better, he is getting along,  We are still helping him with his addictions.  He´s just having a hard time, but we all do.  

Well I had a great experience this week, yet again with prayer and my scriptures.  It was so neat-  For the past month or so I really had a question on my mind. Do I confuse people more than I teach and help them?  I just was thinking of that.  I know spanish, I can talk to people in a convo or in a lesson, I know a lot.  Yeah, at some points I don´t know a word, but I can explain it and it{s all good.  But I really started to wonder, well Do I help them?  I started praying about it well since a good month or 2 back.  Everyday just searching and praying.  A couple of days ago I was reading in Doctine and Convenants.  I was just flipping through, looking for some scriptures.  I just got an impression to go to D&C 100.  I started to read at section 100 verses 5-8 and it just answered everything.  It was amazing, just a couple of versus just helped me get over this little hump.  I felt so much better, it was bugging me, just a question that does that.  The Lord really blessed me this week.  Just so  much through everthing that I am doing.  More and more blessings.  He really is looking after me.  When I was thinking of this little thing, just these little experiences that I have been having a thought came to mind.  The Lord taught that this path is straight and narrow, that we really have to hold to the rod, but he doesn´t say if we won't have hills or mountains in our way.  It just really has been hard. Luckily life is getting really good right now.  Everyday has it´s new challenges, its mountains, but I have the Lord on my side.  Like I said, He has been helping me out so much this past weeek, just with a lot of my questions..  They have all been answered in my scripture reading.  Ohh and fun fact, I just finished the Book of Mormon in Spanish a couple days ago.  How sweet is that! Love it!  hahah,

Well fam, I love you.  Thank you so much for everything.  For your love, prayers, and well being there for me.  Hey for the family call, I am not sure.  We have a eating thing at 2ish, sooo maybe at 5ish my time, we shall see. Christmas is also my pday so I will email you all when I am on and ready.  That sounds good.  Hey I love you!!!! Have a great dayt!!!

Love,

Elder Laubaugh!!!!