Monday, October 12, 2009

Good Week!!!!







Hey Everyone,
How´s things? Sounds like a lot new is going on. You need to remind me where all those kids are goin on missions. I just remember Andrew is goin to Argentina right? Just remind me next week. Sounds like it was a good Sunday at church. That also should be exciting getting a new stak pres. Let me know how that goes. And dang, I wish I could have seen Sandra Day beat Boulder Creek. Sounds like it was a great game. So ya, things here are going great as well. This week we had 4 amazing baptisms. One had been waiting forever because the lady he was living with wasn´t divorced so they couldnt get married but we finally got all that taken care of and he was able to get baptized. The other was the wife of a convert from like 4 months ago, she didnt want anything to do with the church before, but he finally got her to just go one sunday and she read and prayed and couldnt neglect the feelings she felt. Something I have seen is that everyone has their time. Sometimes they reject us and then weeks, or even months later we find them again and they´re ready. Most the time people need some huge humbling experience to get them to listen. But those that listen and humble themselves alone, are soooo much more blessed by the Lord. The other lady we baptized too, had already heard the Gospel and didnt want anything, but then her son came from out of town to visit and told her he had been baptized and she loved the changes she saw in him and couldnt resist getting to know the Gospel. And the last guy was just a miracle. One day we didnt have much to do, so we decided to knock doors (yes we knock doors here), and we were just walking and saw this street and decided to knock it. And this guy answers and started to tell us how he had so many problems and he was waiting for us and we had got there just in time. One of the greatest joys in life is knowing you´ve been an instrument in the hands of the Lord to bring others to the truth. The Lord is never hesitant to bless us if we will just do our part. There is nothing that can stop the Gospel from progressing. It has to be true if a bunch of teenagers can keep it moving forward. I love you all and appreciate all your love. Tell everyone hi like always. Love, Rees

2 comments:

Cheryl said...

I have a question. The top pic... are the church bldgs in Mexico quite a bit different than the rest of the world? It looks a little "Catholicish".

Briannon said...

he looks like a giant in one of those pics hehehe