Wow, I can´t believe that another week has already come and gone! We´re already approaching the middle\end of October...

This last week was good- lots of work. Unfortunately we didn´t see as many fruits as I would have liked. Last weekend we had two people marked for this last Sunday (dia 17). On Wednesday we taught another fairly new investigator and marked him for dia 30...so everything seemed great! Then Wednesday night when we taught someone that was marked, he said that he had to go out of town for family...In our mission there is a big focus on receiving revelation for the exact day that someone should be baptized, and that that particular day is the will of God for that individual. So to say that you´ll be out of town on the day that you´re marked for baptism is a big thing...we tried to explain this to him, to talk about what God wants him to do, but in the end he felt that it would be okay to be baptized this next weekend...we´ll see how things pan out. But that was a little (lot!) frustrating.

The next day we got a call from our other marked investigator, saying that she has to be out of town for work this weekend.....talk about frustrating! We still have hope for them, but its frustrating when everything is being thrown in the way of baptism..but thats the way this work is. It really is a guerra (war)...and we are on the front lines!

So besides the frustrating of cancellations, it was a good week. We had a Zone Meeting where we talked more about the focus of the new mission curriculum, which was good. Yesterday we had stake conference, which was good. President Torgan talked, and I loved his talk (obviously...) He talked about the importance of baptism to access the power of the atonement, and about the blessings that we receive immediately depois baptism...principally the gifts of the spirit. He speaks really well (since he´s a politician), but speaks with the spirit that gives so much power to his words...its incredible!

I´ve been reading recently in Alma, about the missions of Alma, Amuluque, and the sons of Mosias. They are such incredible examples, I love reading about their experiences. I read today about when the sons of mosias left on their mission, praying and fasting in the wilderness on the way to the Lamanites. The spirit filled them with courage, which I thought interesting. All of us are asked to do hard things, but when we seek the assistance of the Lord, He will give us the courage and power that we need to fulfill what is asked of us. The Lord really qualifies whom He calls! Which is always a big reassurance :)