Saturday, November 5, 2016

Sorry I am a little late on this one.

I will start with a cultural update.

This was taken inside a public restroom. What Seth intended to depict here was the fact that you have to pay to use many public restrooms and, as you pay, you are issued your allotment of toilet paper. I don't know how generous that allotment is but I guess one finds a way to make it work.

Seth hasn't reported many P-day activities mostly because doing laundry at member homes consumes the majority of their time.

We aren't sure how it came to be but they received a washing machine for their apartment this week. He considers that to be a great blessing. 

Seth and his companion (the district leader) went on exchanges with the zone leaders this week.

Seth spent a physically demanding day with Elder Herrera, third from the left, in his area. The good news is that the other ZL and Seth's companion had a wonderful finding day in their area.

Here are some excerpts from Seth's letter.

On Tuesday, Seth's companion and the ZL taught Elizabeth. This is what Seth reported.

"What was interesting in their day was the answer that Elizabeth [received as] to whether the Book of Mormon was true. The night before she had started reading the Book of Mormon but because she was so exhausted that she fell asleep while reading. She woke up later and put the book aside and fell back asleep. Then she started to dream, and a person who she couldn't totally describe started reading from the Book of Mormon to her. The passages she heard were not passages she had read or heard before and she started reading the next morning again, and she found the passage exactly as the person in the dream had described it."

Victor is an investigator who lost his family and just about everything else because of an addiction.  Here is an excerpt of what Seth reported regarding him.

"We are working very diligently with a member as well to help him, because his desires to change are so desperate and strong. He reads everything we give him and more and agrees to everything. If there is anyone to pray for it's him, and us also to know what we should do to help him."

Here is his testimony. (His Spanish and spelling are still a work in progress.)

"Yo sé que Dios vive. Yo sé que dependimos sobre la misericordia de Él y Su Hijo, Jesucristo. Necesitamos entintar en cada momento para guardar nuestras promesas y convenios. Sé que tendré el amor de Dios, y conversión en mi corazón porque Él puede hacer todas las cosas."
(I know that God lives. I know that we depend on His mercy and that of His Son, Jesus Christ. We need to try in every moment to keep our promises and covenants. I know I will have the love of God and conversion in my heart because He can do all things.)


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