Blessed

Hey Everyone... How are you doing?  Well it was a sweet week here from Alto Hospicio! We worked our little butts off this week, And we almost made it to the level of Celestial Missionary.. We missed it but 1 more investigator in church this Sunday. SOOO CLOSE!! but we still were happy with how we ended up. Its incredible how much you can accomplish when you plan well and add the extra hard work to go along with it! Its sooo nice to have a companion that likes to work hard.. even if he enjoys to sleep a lot too. haha I guess you cant be perfect.

We had the baptism of Sebastian Caballero this week! it was awesome, He was really one of the easiest people to teach. He had a testimony before we even started teaching him. But everything went really well. We actually did the baptism together with elder Keele.. We both had our 1 baptisms together as trainers. Elder Keele is such a good guy.. Like really he is my best friend in the mission. 

Yeah so crazy the experience doing contacts this week. So we knocked on this door in an apartment complex, and this lady opened the door. We do the classic contact and she doesn't give in..But after a little talking she decided to let us in. She told us that her husband was sick and that we could come say a prayer to help him out.. We walk into the room where her husband is.. and laying in a hospital bed we see this man. He is literally skin and bone. He was involved in an accident 1 year and a half ago. And he has been getting worse and worse ever since. He is brain dead and can work properly. This family has 3 little kids too. So we were standing by the bed of this man that was in the worse shape that I have ever seen in my entire life talking to his wife. We tell this lady that we can give blessing to help people recover. And she said sure please do it. So I put my hands on the head of this guy to give him a blessing, I start and the spirit overcame be.. I remember saying things that I don't even know why I said them but I continued to give this blessing to this poor guy. As I Finished I slowly took my hands of his head, and looked into his eyes. He was looking right at me and he had a single tear streaming down his face. And I just lost it right there.. The spirit was too powerful in this moment for any other type of emotion. I love this guy so much and I am glad to know the plan that our heavenly father has for him. I'm so grateful for the power of the priesthood that I have been entrusted with, that I can use this responsibility the way that I am expected to and to be worthy of it. I am so grateful for the blessings in my life and in the life of my family that we can be strong. I can only imagine how difficult it would be to be the wife of this man. If I learned only one thing from this experience it is that I have an innumerable amount of blessings in my life. I love you all and hope we all can stay worthy to receive all of the blessings that our heavenly father has in store for each and everyone of us!

Love Elder Buck Howard