Week 41

Dear Family,

My amazing family, how are you all doing?! Wow it sounds like everything is going great, and I can't believe school starts tomorrow right? And I'm glad you enjoyed your time with the Pinders, now you will have to invite others over and do it more often :)

Here is Melo it's going great! We had another open house in Colon, so we went and helped with it too, thought this church is on a busier street, not as many people came in, but it was good.

JL was not baptized this week, he has a date for the 30th for right now, because he needs another interview, but this is no problem! This will help us and him, because a veces we teach really fast to get it all in, but now we can go over a couple things with him.

B, is an eleven year old boy and he is very smart, it is amazing.  His sister and niece are members and they are recent converts so that will be good, and although his mom doesn't want anything to do with the church, she is very nice and she allows him to come to church and everything, he has a date for the 26th.

Ah something that I forgot to share with you the last time, but I really wanted to.  So last week when we had the conference we were talking about commitments and we were thinking and well yeah.. here's what I thought ha.  So with our commitments we are always giving our investigators and members commitments, because commitments help them change and repents and without one they cannot progress.  And also we as misisonary get commitments, to complete and work with our area and such, and I was thinking of how we feel when our investigators don't keep theirs, and we are sad, because there is no progress, we need them to complete.  Jesus Christ had a commitment also.  Heavenly Father sent him here to complete a mission, to atone for all of us.  And think about it, what if Christ hadn't completed? What if we couldn't repent? But I know Jesus Christ is my Savior and Redeemer, and he did complete.  He fulfilled all that the Father asked him to do, and because that we can change.  We can be made whole. We have hope and we can become clean.

I am so grateful to be here, and to be able to serve a mission.  I am grateful for the confidence that my Heavenly Father has in me.  Thank you so much for your love and support, you really are the best family, and I love you so much!!!

Love,

Hermana Louder