Happiest Day!

 

Hello Everyone!!  This week was absolutely incredible and I had such incredible experiences so I hope I can describe them accurately!  

First thing first, I'm not getting transferred!!  Elder Pano and I will be together still for at least 6 more weeks  I'm so so excited for that because he's a stud and it's fun to teach together!!

Second, I got news of a baptism in my first area.  It was the rest of the Part Member family I worked with a ton in my first area!!!  I love this family so so much and when I heard that they were getting baptized I can't even explain how happy I was!  I got permission to watch the baptism via zoom and wow I have never felt so much love and joy!  To see how much they have grown and to see how much the gospel changed their lives truly changed my heart.  I feel like I was shown a small portion of the infinite love God has for all of us.  I have felt so different ever since and have such a greater desire to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  I know Christ lives and that his love for us is greater than we can possibly imagine.  

A quote I absolutely love from Elder Holland is 

"My beloved brothers and sisters, I am not certain just what our experience will be on Judgment Day, but I will be very surprised if at some point in that conversation, God does not ask us exactly what Christ asked Peter: “Did you love me?” I think He will want to know if in our very mortal, very inadequate, and sometimes childish grasp of things, did we at least understand one commandment, the first and greatest commandment of them all—“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind.”  And if at such a moment we can stammer out, “Yea, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee,” then He may remind us that the crowning characteristic of love is always loyalty."

I absolutely love this quote!  I would like to invite you all today to start living your life so you can stand before God on the Last Day and say with all the confidence of your heart.  “Yea, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee,”  If you're living your life like this please continue to do so, if you´re not I plead with you to come to the path.

Also funny story,  so we receive this food called Caldo a lot here, it's really good but we get it almost everyday so Elder Pano and I joke about it.  The Elders we share a capilla (chapel) with almost never have it.  BUT we had exchanges this week and I went with the other Elders, for lunch we received caldo and Elder Pano and the elder he was with got CHICKEN QUESADILLAS so I think wherever I go caldo follows.  

I love you all!