(Jessie had a lot of good news when she opened up her emails today. The itinerary for her return home came and she was re-accepted into BYU Hawaii, plus she got news about our family vacation coming up.)
So this week has been very adventurous, surprised backed and interesting....
1. We had zone conference and I talked with President Alvarado....
2. President explained to me two revelations he received about me and my future husband...
3. Zory and Marcano were planned to be married and baptized on Saturday. Their wedding time passed and I just figured I wouldn't go because I didn't hear anything... well we arrived on our bikes to our night stake conference with Bishop McMulllin of the General Authorities because Alvero was there. We walked in a few minutes before all sweaty and said hi to Alvero then President pointed at us and asked us to come up to the pew. We went up and he was like right now in Guaynabo Zory and Luis are getting baptized, and then he handed us keys (to a car to take to the baptism) .... we made it 5 minutes before they were baptized. It was awesome and then he sent a text saying be back at 9:05 enjoy. We tried leaving early, but of course everyone talks and stuff.. we left and every place with a light it was red. We were kind of stressed, but we parked the car exactly at 9:05. It was awesome and then we came in and accidently improperly saluted the Bishop because we didn't recognize him and we were so excited to give president the keys.
(Bishop Keith McMullin is the second counselor in the Presiding Bishopric for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. There are individual Bishops for each ward or congregation, but the presiding Bishopric is responsible for many of the temporal affairs of the Church. “These have included involvement in receiving, distributing, and accounting for member tithes, offerings, and contributions; administration of programs to assist the poor and needy; design, construction, and maintenance of places of worship; and auditing and transferring records of membership.”)
4. We returned home and saw a parked car in the front of the house and we thought, “who would put their car in front of our house? Good thing we don't have one”.... then almost before we went to bed, President called and explained that he was impressed to see our bikes parked at the conference and that we were obedient and that the car keys were inside on the back seat. We were thrilled he gave us back our car. (Tender Mercies of the LORD eh?!) It wasn't that they felt bad, it was actually because the stake president was frustrated that there wasn't progression. LOL., Now pray that we can have progression.
5. We had a conference with the mission with Bishop McMullin and it was very good and interesting.
6. Lilian Garcia... who we were on the brink of dropping attended the conference and told me that she was going to leave early to attend mass... well she stayed the whole two hours and when president talked, he mentioned about her and the members and we both looked at each other with shock, but then it got normal-ish. LOL.... and Alvero attended 2 of the stake conference sessions and a special youth fireside that night and loved it all.
7. Alvero is progressing a ton and explained that he has seen this change in himself and can feel peace and is having a conversion in his heart. Yesterday we went to fax something at their house and we brought them pizza to eat with us and we ended up talking and then he invited us to read with him and his wife for their normal night reading together and then he asked us questions about baptism and the baptismal interview questions which was our intended lesson plans for him (revelation) and he answered and invited us to come back tonight. Please pray that he will get baptized this month..... He's doing great!!!!!
8. We had a nutty Family Home evening (noche de hogar) with a senior couple service missionaries with Alvero and another couple. He talked about satanic spirits and how many are around us and how important for us to be faithful... it was a lot of math and super not important. Alvero felt uncomfortable and explained to us that when he does noche de hogares he wants them to be edifying and spiritually for the family and with scriptures. We were laughing because that's exactly how we felt. We were like wow he's great!!!!
9. One of our areas the streets are names of places around the world, so we are going to travel around the world for a bit in less than 80 days.
10. Bishop McMullin explained that children should see their parent’s Patriarchal blessings....
11. We were singing the song ‘Put Your Shoulder to the Wheel’ with Hermana McMullin with the mission and she had a special way of singing it... one group sang the chorus and the other sang con fervor the whole time.... we were singing con fervor and we were finishing the song, and accidently Hermana Curl kept singing it was super funny... a little too excited eh?!
I love you so much and Miss you tons.... GOTTA GO MUAh!!!!!
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