The Grind

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 Hola hola a todos


What's up everyone how's everyone doing? I'm just still out here in Bolivia grinding everyday because that's what the mission is. 

Our teaching pool is full of awesome people and we are running with like 5 people that want to get baptized and a couple more who are so close. The only problem with these 5 people is that they have problems that are getting in their way and won't let them get baptized. Various reasons, and it's a little sad to see one little thing stop these people from receiving the true joy that we can find in the gospel, but we keep grinding.

We did have a really good week of finding though and have met a lot more people who have had the missionaries in their lives a looooong time ago, but they "stopped coming by." I would be willing to say that these people are a lot more willing to accept Jesus Christ into their lives now than before. And that always gives me motivation to keep going even when the people don't want to progress because my efforts are not being wasted. I'm helping to prepare people for later on.

A cool thing this week was that we got the Dad of the family of 8 kids to come to church! Only he came, but he really liked it and said he wanted his whole family to come the next week which was a major step forward. They're still very much in need of a lot of things in their lives to help make them a stable family in the gospel, but were seeing the little miracles everyday.

Hope you're all doing well! Love you all

Con cariño
Elder Holdstock
Elder D. Todd Christofferson




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