Aaron

Hey everyone!

I hope you are all doing well!  This past week was kind of rough but none the less, there is always something that goes well if you just look for it!  We have been looking for new investigators to teach this past week and there haven´t been very many.  We have also recieved refferals but the address is not exact and it´s impossible to find the people.  This coming week we are planning on street contacting a lot of people.

We also have a new bishop in the ward!  Those are the best!  He is with a lot of desires to work and ready to help out in the mission work!  We will be working really closely with the new bishop to keep up his desires!

Well, now that I have a little bit of time, I will explain the parables in Luke 15.

First.  The Lost Sheep.  Elder Godoy (area president) exlpained it like this:  First off, why did the sheep get lost?  Maybe he was eating grass and he just kind of wanderd off not wanting to.  So maybe these are the people that just kind of don´t go to church one Sunday, then 2, then more and more until they don´t know where they are!  So what did the shepard do?  He went looking for the sheep!  We need to go looking for those type of people!

Second.  The lost coin.  How did the coin get lost? Some careless person had misplaced it perhaps.  Maybe these are the people that leave the church for some comment or rumour or a conflict they had with another member.  So what did the woman do?  She also went looking for it.  Most likely appolgizing for what we had done to that person.

Third.  The Prodigal Son.  How did he leave?  By his own free will.  He wanted to experiment the world for his own and try different things.  So what did his father do?  I´m sure he waited with love with lots of prayers.  And when his son come back home, he recieved him with open arms and they had a party because he had come back.

Let us all find those who may have wanderd from the church for some reason.  And let us all help them return!

The church is true, Jesus is the Christ!  I love you all and thanks for all the support!  Have a wonderful week!