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Hola hola a todos!


How's everyone doing, this week has been awesome. Recently the weeks have been up and down. One week awesome and the next a little rough, but this week we were on the high.

We invited 4 people to baptism this week and they all accepted and it was so cool. One is a 22 year old named Alan that wants to serve a mission and do everything. He's been investigating the church for months now and is just missing the baptism. Finally hell complete the step and start his process of preperation for his mission.

The other 3 came from a family. We've seen so many cool things with this family. It's the family that we gave a blessing to a couple weeks back. They've been pregressing really well and have such great desires. The only thing that's been holding them back is the health of the Hermano Oscar. He's been in the hospital a while and finally this week he was released. We taught them the 5 steps of the gospel and shared a voice recording from their daughter and her testimony after her baptism and they were in tears. We invited the three the baptism and they all accepted. It was so cool. The sister of Oscar had told us how she'd been attending a different church for 2 years but never got baptized and now she was going to get baptized in the right church.

Another awesome thing this week was Elder D Todd Christofferson visited our mission. We had a big reunion with all the missionaries and he talked to us about why we need to teach the gospel simply because it is simple, and everything is new to these people. Then the next day he came to our chapel with us and that was so cool.

So many awesome experiences this week. I hope everyone had their own awesome experiences too.

Con cariño 
Elder Holdstock 







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