Elder Samuel Holdstock

  Hola hola a todos! This week has been a rollercoaster. We were up so high seeing success and so many miracles with our friends, then it all came tumbling down in the end and it was so sad. One of these miracles happen with la familia Suarez who we've been teaching for a long time and they wanted to get baptized and were on date for the 16 of April, but the parents didn't get married in time so they couldn't get baptized. Well this week the dad who we always communicate through was kinda ghosting us and we were confused because they used to respond quick and loved us. Elder Lever and I both really felt that we needed to visit this family on Wednesday, but the dad wasn't giving us anyway to visit with them. The whole day after every lesson or call or contact we'd make, we'd check the phone to see if they'd responded and we could visit them. We kept getting rejected and thought all hope was lost. After one of our lessons were walking home talking about how we...

 Hola hola everyone! This week has been a tough one. We started the week with so much success last Sunday and we had 7 people planned and ready to be baptized this last Saturday. For one reason or another throughout the week all 7 of them fell through so we ended up with none which was sad to see. What made it worse was that all 7 of these people want to be baptized to badly and take the steps they need to follow Jesus Christ's example. They each have a challenge that is either the lack of support from family that scares them, or parents not married, or just straight up nerves. We have faith that they will be able to overcome these challenges and that the blessings from God will be poured out in then and their families. This week we spent a lot of time finding some new people to teach. I'm always amazed how when we are in tune with the spirit and doing the things we need to be doing, we are blessed and are lead right to the door that needs us right then. This happened with our ...

  Buenos días a todos!! I hope that everyone is doing so good smiling and always keeping Jesus Christ and God on our minds because that is truly how we see the blessings. These last two weeks have been so good. We have been working really hard and diligently and have seen the blessings come from it. It's been incredible to see that this work really is the Lord's work and because of that he really is helping us out every step of the way. Too many times things happen that just make no sense and shouldn't work out the way they do. There is no limit to what the Lord can do when we put our faith in Him. An incredible experience that happened these last couple of weeks was just a couple days ago while I was on an exchange in another area with a native Bolivian. First it was so cool to see how much Spanish I actually know. The whole day we were just talking and joking and all in Spanish. I didn't even know I knew that much! Hahaha.. But what was cool was a lesson we had with a...