Dearest Family and Friends!
This last week has been a little different than our previous ones. First and
foremost no baptisms haha, but we do have one planned for this weekend! And she
has only one condition on her baptism, and it is that it will be in a river! So
my companion and i are making the 2 hour trip to the nearest river to baptize
her, pictures will be coming next week for you! We have been working with her
for a while and we are relieved and super excited to see her join the true
church.
As for our lessons, they are improving rapidly, because i dont mess them up as
much anymore haha. My spanish has grown exponentially and every one is
surprised that it has, and i also simply reply with, With God nothing is
Impossible. Which was so benevolently quoted by our Lord and Savior. And it is
true, through much fasting and prayer my spanish has been growing so fast. Im
gaining more and more confidence with it, but still far from being fully
confident with it like english. We have been blessed with some new investigators this week, especially the Reyes family. Its a family of
four that have been searching for the true church, and they found it! The wife
really wants to be baptized and so does the husband. They have only a little
problem, and once that is sorted out, then were set for salvation! We hope to
baptize them on the 7th.
Today we had the opportunity to go to the temple. Our session was in spanish,
of course, and i understood the whole thing!!! For the first time on my mission,
i just listened and didnt have to think about the words. So that just pumped me
up for the day. ANOTHER BLESSING! And to continue on with the blessing of the
gift of tongues, we were riding on the bus and the man sitting next to me asked
me why all our names were Elder. So i explained that to him, and then proceeded
with the first discussion. And i gave the whole thing without a hitch, as well
as answering his questions. He lives in a province but seemed super interested.
Hopefully the elders will find him with the information that i gave them.
The blessings have been pouring down ever since our fast last week. The Lord
truly listens and answers our prayers. We only have to be alert to the blessings
and be patient for them.
I am loving this work more and more everyday, and especially the people. This
two years will be amazing, and already 3 months has passed me by!!! So i am
dedicated to make the most out of these next 21 months.


Faithfully
Elder Washburn