Looks like you had a fun day in Scottsdale... That's great you got to see Elder Gilbert... or Brenden. Weird. You guys are crazy for going to Roo's apartment haha but I bet she liked it. Don't worry about me haha we get spoiled enough as is. Haha I wouldn´t "chastise" you I would be "disappointed" in you. haha just kidding :p
Those kids are way too cute and growing up way too fast! I cant even believe it! Addie's scripture and prayer were adorable and Tate is all boy! Spoiled!
Sounds like you had a great lesson... I like Come Follow Me too. I feel like there is a lot more participation and the students can kind of guide the lesson and teach one another and the real teacher at the end of it all is the spirit and everybody learns what they needed to learn, even the teacher!
I think in the January Ensign there is a talk by Elder Holland about the Godhead that he gave to mission presidents a while back... It talks about how important it is to really understand the nature of God and Christ. That's why it is the first principle we teach as missionaries. The world has such a skewed idea of who God is and what he expects of us. Sometimes as missionaries we just kind of skim right over it and get right to the restoration, but if the investigators don't understand the true nature of God they can never comprehend the need for or the reality of a restoration.
This week has been a good week. We haven't been able to work in the area much because of lots of meetings, and stuff we had to do. On Tuesday we were in the office all morning because Elder Tipton had to renew his Visa and Wednesday we were in the stake center all day because president Ramirez showed up to our district meeting and afterwards missionaries wanted interviews and we had to stay because we were the only ones with keys. Thursday we had a meeting in the office with the assistants at night and planning in the morning. Friday we worked all day which was great and then Saturday the other elders in the ward had 2 baptisms and we gave a tour of the chapel to Oscar. He came to the baptisms and was super interested. he has so many questions. He really wants to learn more but it is hard for him to progress because of his job. We have been pretty direct with him and he knows he has to have faith and do whatever is necessary to not work on Sundays but... he is scared.
Bricio is doing well... He is making small steps of forward progress so we cant really complain. He told us a few weeks ago that starting February he would let us know if he wants to be baptized or not, so we are hoping he says yes! He has to really get going though if he says yes. He is reading and praying and he has stopped drinking too which is great, but he still hasn't come to church. Yesterday he didn't work and said he was going to come but didn't show up. I think he sees us too much as his friends, so we are going to try and help him understand that we can be his friends but before that we are missionaries and if he doesn't progress we cant keep visiting him. Its always hard doing that but it usually helps. We will see. He is a great guy and one day will be baptized but he just needs to get goin!
Yaneli passed her baptismal interview and is going to be baptized on Saturday! yay! She was kind of a freebie haha but we are excited for her.
Jose Luis, the guy who needs to get married, us going well... We kinda laid back a bit on the marriage thing and that seems to have helped... He is reading more often and has gone to church the last 2 weeks. He knows what he needs to do he just needs to have the faith to do it. So pray for him!
The ward is progressing and the zone too. We have a goal to have 20 baptisms in March. the goal for February is 15 and I think we are going to have somewhere around 10. The most the zona has had in a year is 7 so we are excited for the improvement. We really have awesome missionaries in the zone and the stake has supported us so much and the wards are super excited and we are just blessed to be here and witness it all. Its definitely a fun time. Elder Tipton and I are pretty sure they wont leave us together another change so who knows what will happen next change, but for now he have two weeks left to keep working hard.
Anyways I don't have much time left but I love you lots and hope you have a great week!
Love,
Elder Skalla
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