Aaron

Hey everyone!  I hope you all are doing well as always!  As am I!  This week was a pretty difficult week but I learned some good things and have also heard some good news!

First off, this past week there wasn´t a whole lot due to a huge party called La Candelaria.  It´s the second biggest party or festival in all of South America behind Rio.  So for that reason, there weren´t a lot of people in their houses and even less today because today is the actual festival.  I guess it´s pretty big because people come from all over just to see it.  And it´s in Puno!  So the zone leaders are going to lock us in a chapel pretty much the whole day.

On Friday I had a meeting with all the leaders in the zone, Puno Central.  It was really good.  We basically just talked about attitude the whole meeting and how important it is.  Things will happen in life.  We can´t avoid the inevitable and we can´t change the past no matter how hard we try.  The only thing that we can control is our attitude.  There was a quote that they gave us that talked about the importance of attitude.  That it can either build or destroy a buisness, church, home, etc.  The quote finished by saying, ´´I am conviced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I decide to react.´´  Attitude is everything.

So a couple of weeks ago I wrote an old companion of mine that has been at home for a while, but he wrote me with some good news!  In Puerto, we were teaching an investigator and right before I left, she decided to be baptized on May 30th, 2015.  I was never there to see her be baptized with her daughter as well, but that was the last I heard of her, that she got baptized.  I got an email today from my old companion that had been talking to her by facebook and she is doing great!  She kept thanking him (and me) because we were able to bring her the gospel.  It was super cool to hear that she is doing well!  It´s one of the best feelings to know that you were able to help bring the gospel into someones life and nothing can replace that feeling.

Well, I love you all and hope you all have a great week!  Thanks for all the support and love that you all show!  Stay safe and have a great week!