Transfer

Yep miracles can happen.. wanna know how I know? Because I am a WITNESS of them. It was such an incredible week here in Alto Hospicio!! Soo I don't know If you guys remember Jorge Diaz, one of the most incredible people in the world that I know.. We have been working with him for a while. His wife, Jessica, was a less active and their daughter, Kata, is a strong youth in the branch. Jorge works in the mine and is there 10 days on 10 days off. So its super hard for us to teach him. Earlier this month we tried having his baptismal service the 21 of July.. but he didn't feel like he had received a true answer but that he needed to REALLY JUST FEEL IT. So he got back this week and we went to visit with him and we had a really strong lesson with him and left him with the commitment to read 3 nefi 11 again and to pray to see if he gets his answer.. we came back the next day. And what happened in this next lesson changed my life. Really, to make a really long story short... He read, he prayed, we talked, we taught, we challenged and the result was that he said he knows he has to do it. He received his answer and that he wants to get baptized Saturday and we set the goal right then and there in one year from Saturday to be their temple marriage date! Really just listen to the voice recording because this letter doesn't do justice. Everything went incredible this week and both Luis Borquez and Jorge Diaz both got baptized. It was the high note of my mission and now I am going to be leaving this sector. We received the transfer calls this week and after 6 months here in Alto Hospicio I will be going to CALAMA BABY!! I'm so excited Calama is one of the best cities in the mission. More on Calama next week when I know what its really like. I leave tonight at 11:30... and its about a 7 1/2 hour bus ride. I'M SO HAPPY but I'm sure going to miss my home town here in Alto Hospicio!!

I LOVE YOU ALL and have a great week.

Elder Howard