BAPTISMS! And MIRACLES!

Hola a todos! Amigos, familiares y a los demás!

Esta semana fue muy, muy bien. Recibimos muchas más cosas y nuevas normas de excelencia todavía. Pero nos ha ayudado todo esto!

This week was very, very good. We received more things and newer standards of excellence still. But it's helped us, all of this!

The sector Sicuani is good. We had two baptisms this week! Two brothers in the young men, we're super excited for them. We've had a lot of great lessons this week. Really, things are going really well, just a little bit more on our part and it'll shoot off!

Yesterday a really cool experience that we had was we were in the fields that we have in Sicuani, my companion had been feeling that we should go over there since no one had ever pretty much, that there were and are families that need us, we went there and as we were about to head back to the more city-like area because of the rain I felt that there was someone that needed our help. Maybe because of the rain or something else. Anyway, we went and hide under a tin hut until the downpour stopped, I wasn't feeling so strongly anymore and asked if we should head back, but we decided to go and find who had been in need of our help. We came to a house that I felt prompted to go to, knocked, nothing. Then Elder Yangali said there was a sister in a small shack that was nearby, we started off, then I felt that it was in the other direction, like it had been from the main road to the small house. We went over to where two people were talking as one of them was about to head off with his motorcycle. We told them that we were prompted to come over here because someone needed our help. We said that we were missionaries and had a message that is very important that we'd like to share, and if there was any physical needs we could do that too. They invited us in and we shared about the Atonement and that through Christ and living His Gospel we can change, we answered some questions and had a fantastic lesson focusing on them. Then we invited them to pray and read the scriptures, then we set an appointment for Saturday and left. It was an amazing, spiritual experience.

And on Saturday we had the baptism of Oseas y Obed. It was really special, the spirit was strong, I didn't know what to feel, but it was good, the spirit was there and everyone felt it. Their parents were able to attend as well.

All in all, we're doing great. Elder Yangali and I are having a lot of success in many areas, spiritual, personally, in our companionship and in the work. It's great.

Go study the Book of Mormon. Don't just read it, study it. Do it now, you have access to https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm?lang=eng if you're reading this blog, you probably also have scriptures in your house. Go read it now, have a question you need or want answered, I promise that if you do as Moroni says about prayer, real intent, sincere heart and faith in Christ, you'll find the answer in the scriptures just like we can while praying. God talks to us through the scriptures, we talk to Him through prayer. He also gives personal revelation during both. Go now, read, and yet more, study the Book of Mormon, and you'll find the answer you've been seeking.

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Hurrah for Israel!

~Elder Fincher