Mi familia!
Thats good that the basement is all dried out. Just so you know mom
and dad, you better still be living in that house when i get back
because i love that house. And tell your missionaries they can just
record the game and watch it later because honestly who cares about a
game when you can spend time with Pres and Sis Reeves at the reunion!
Haha oh man i cant wait for general conference this next weekend. And
we should have it in english which is all the better. I love spanish
but i would much rather not suffer trying to stay awake by translating
everything in my head... sad it might be a while until i get passed
the translating stage.
This past weekend has been the best. We had Frank´s baptism and
confirmation and another kid named Jeisson who the other elders have
been teaching got baptized too. It was a pretty amazing story what
happened to Jeisson too but i dont have time to write about it so i´ll
write about it later. But pretty much he was supposed to get baptized
on the 17th and he was interviewed and all ready to go but then
decided he wasnt ready. We visited him this last friday and he had no
plans to get baptized but we had such a good visit with him and the
spirit was so strong that he decided to get baptized the very next
morning with Frank. It was incredible. Now im going to tell the
whole story of Frank because he´s the best.
Elder Pericle and I met Frank more than a month ago just from a
contact on the street. We saw him and started to talk to him and we
got his information but for some reason we weren´t able to set up a
visit. We didnt see him for a couple of weeks and honestly we pretty
much forgot about him. But then one day we were walking to one of our
visits and we saw him with one of his friends. We talked to him again
and he told us he had never been baptized in any church before and
said he would love for us to come by and teach him because he needed
to be baptized. We had our first visit with him about 3 weeks ago and
in the first visit he agreed to be baptized and to read and pray. The
next visit we had with him he had read, i think it was 3 Nephi 11, and
he said he liked it but he still wasnt sure about the Book of Mormon.
We found out that he had been being taught by the Jehova´s Witnesses
and he wasnt sure what to believe. We invited him to pray
specifically about the Book of Mormon that night and he would receive
an answer. I think the next day was sunday and we went to go pick him
up at his barber shop so we could meet with him and walk to church.
We got there to his barber shop and he wasnt there. So we called him
and he told us that he was going to his other church that day. We
were pretty bummed about it but we just told him we would come by on
monday. The next day we went and saw him and he said he hadnt
received an answer... so he really wasnt progressing at all. In that
visit, we asked him to kneel down with us right then and to ask God if
this truly is His church and that the Book of Mormon is true. He
prayed and gave the most amazing prayer ever! He seriously poured out
his whole soul to know if it was true. After the prayer we asked him
how he felt and he said he felt so happy and at peace and he knew he
had gotten his answer. After that momento clave every other visit was
so easy and he accepted everything. Almost every single day since
then until his baptism we´ve stopped by and had a visit with him. He
always read what we left him to read and he always prayed every
morning and night. He loved the second lesson and especially about
the spirit world. He asked us, "do our spirits go back to God after
we die?" we read with him in Alma 40 and it was like a billion pound
weight was lifted off his shoulders. He said, "good! The Jehova´s
Witnesses were trying to teach me that they dont. They were trying to
deceive me!" It was great. Every commitment and commandment we
taught him about he kept. He always said "I will do what God asks. I
trust in Him." He was baptized and confirmed this last weekend. He
cant wait to see General Conference. I love Frank. It was so neat to
see him change his whole life from being a big smoker and drinker to
all the sudden a complete follower of Christ. The Gospel is
everything. Everyone needs to hear the good news and change their
lives to receive salvation and return to live with God again.
The Bolivia family is doing good but they still havent come to church
and we still can only see them like once a week so its a slow work.
But José, the father, is from Cochabamba, dad. And the mom, Doli, is
from Santa Cruz. When do you both come to Spain again?? Next month?
Alright love you fam.
Elder Reeves
Mom can you also send this to Elder Child (i think its
adam.child@myldsmail.net) and Elder Seamons?
(keller.seamons@myldsmail.net)
My Elderes around the world.
Elder Marsden youre so right about the field being white already to
harvest. Why waste our time with those who arent ready when we can
just be focusing on people who want to just swan dive into the faunt
and get baptized? That´s something im figuring out more and more
every single day. Elder Mossito talk to me baby. Elder Child and
Elder Seamons....... WHATS GOING ON IN NEW MEXICO AND PERU??? Im in
Spain in a city called Lleida and im loving every second of it. The
vineyard is going good. Write me back through your fam emails. I
love you boys like crazy. Hasta luego mis hermanos.
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