Dia Del Padre!

Familia y Amigos!

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY (yesterday)!! Our ward had an activity on Saturday to celebrate fathers. Us missionaries did skits for the entertainment. The elders all acted out the story of Nephi and his brothers and us hermanas did one where we dressed up as fathers. It was pretty funny. And then the primary children turned off all the lights and put glow sticks on their bodies and then danced to gangham style. It was SO cute! I think it went well. Also, I forgot to mention that last week for church, Hna Poblete and I and another sister in the ward sang a musical number! We weren't amazing, but we did pretty good. We were joking about it and realized that Hispanics don't really focus on singing and musical things, sooo we'd be alright.

We're trying really hard for people to progress and doing what we can. We have a lot of work to do. We met a man named Marc for the first time this last week and he said to us right off the bat that he wanted to come to our church. AND HE CAME! It was so exciting. He's really interested and we're going to go back and teach him more. It was a total blessing to meet him!

I especially learned a lot about the Plan of Salvation this week. We had an investigator ask about why Satan was cast out, why Heavenly Father didn't give him another chance. I had never thought about it that way, so I studied that a lot. It wasn't because Heavenly Father didn't love him, but because of Satan's own choice. He rebelled and wanted to do everything against Heavenly Father. Whatever was contrary to Heavenly Father is what Satan did. He didn't tempt Adam and Eve to eat the fruit because it was what we needed to progress, but he did it because it was what Heavenly Father had commanded them not to do. He fights against Heavenly Father and the right every moment of the day and THAT is why he was cast out and why we teach to avoid sin. Because Heavenly Father loves us, He gave us agency and the opportunity to choose for ourselves, even though He knows we're going to make mistakes. When we DO sin and rebel against Heavenly Father, we leave His presence. It's hard, but we go through it to grow and learn in this life. And Heavenly Father knew we would fall, so he gave us a way to return back. Pretty cool.

Yo les quiero saber que se que este iglesia es solamente la verdad en el mundo. El evangelio, que Jesucristo enseno cuando fue en la tierra, es restaurado otra vez. Y lo tenemos. Tenemos la autoridad para ensenarle. Se que nuestro padre celestial nos ama muchisimo. Por eso, nos da una plan para que podemos ser felizes y podemos regresar a vivir con El. Se que el Libro de Mormon es verdadero y que recibimos respuestas de oraciones por este libro. Con sinceridad, siento el espiritu y el amor de Dios cuando lo leo. Cada vez. Testifico que por medio de la expiacion y Jesucristo podemos ser y sentir limpos. El nos entiende. Porque sufrio todo que pasamos en esta vida. TODO! Que incredible! Lo quiero compartir con ustedes porque he lo visto en mi vida y YO SE que es verdad.

1) Sara the turtle. I like taking pictures with animals.

2) The skit

3) The primary kids, if you can see them.