What the h*ck

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 Hola hola a todos!


Looking back at our daily plans, this week was really all over the place. We have an awesome problem where all of our awesome people either recently got baptized, or are getting baptized this week. That has meant that we need to find some good new people to teach regularly. A problem here is almost 80% of the time people will want to talk to you and hear all your messages, but dont care about going to church. So we gotta weed through those guys. But were seeing progress slowly but surely.

Highlight of the week for sure was being able to baptize our friend Gabriela Flores Bentacur. We've been teaching her almost the whole time I've been here in Bolivia. She has quite the conversion story and has changed so much from the day we met her. I found my seof audibly saying "what the heck, how did we get here" as we were taling pictures.  The other day she wrote us on WhatsApp as we were talking about something and said "Siii 😊 m ahora creo que lo mejor es seguir las enseñanzas de Dios" I was so happy for her when she came out of that water. Also she wanted to grt baptized in a river so bad, but we couldn't get it to work out so she requested the water to be really cold hahaha.

Her story has just proven to me the power of God and how intricate He really is. Everything happens for a reason. Throughout my time knowing Gabriela, she has been thrown with so many challenges and took many falls, but in the end she is so strong and going to be such an amazing member. Our trials are given to us to help us grow. We may not like it as were passing through the trial, but in the end we're always left better. Our Heavenly Father is a real Eagle Scout. He leaves people better than he finds them. 

Con cariño
Elder Holdstock 








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