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 Hola hola a todos


I don't have much to write about this week. It was a long grindy one, but we made it through in the end. 

Our friend Ernesto continues to be amazing, but now he confuses us a lot. We extended him the baptismal invitation and he was so excited about it, but then his doubts came out about some things that didn't worry us at all. It's really hard when someone loves the church and literally every teaching and even says it's awesome and they don't do that or teach that in his church, but then turns down the invitation because he has deep roots in his religion, but we didn't discourage ourselves. He joined us in the conference and absolutely loved it. After the first session he said he had received so many answers to his questions, then proceeded to go home and share averting with his family. The next day he told us he wouldn't be able to make it, but 30 minutes before the end of the morning session he texted us and said that he was on his way. He said he knew he would only be there for a few minutes, but he also said he knew they were the few minutes that he couldn't miss. And after it ended he came up to us and basically told us "I told ya so." so that was awesome to see him embrace the conference and really get stuff out of it. We are praying it was enough to encourage him forward on the covenant path.

Other than that, we killed a cockroach in our house and managed to fix our broken toilet so I think we're doing a pretty good job surviving out here in Bolivia. 

Elder Holdstock





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