Week 70

This week was pretty normal..... We really saw the Lord working in our area and helping the people take those steps they need to to be baptized! For a little over a year the missionaries have been visiting a lady named Sandra. She has been coming to church and has already read the Book of Mormon from cover to cover, but she hasn`t been able to be baptized because she smokes and is waiting on a legal paper that kicks her boyfriend out of the house. When I showed up she would let us talk to her, but she never really worked too hard at quitting smoking. So we started really helping her, calling her everyday, visiting her even a little late at night before we went home and we gave her a blessing that she would quit smoking. She finally started to quit smoking and the Lord responded to her efforts by blessing her. Then the problem was that she is living with a guy who she is not married to and does not want to marry him, but has to wait for some legal paper to come through so he leaves the house. About a week ago Sandra fought with her boyfriend and left the house. She says that she refuses to go back. Sandra is now really close to being baptized and she is super excited. I know that the Lord helped Sandra make the decision to leave that house. 

I know that the Lord is working in each of our lives! Maybe we don`t understand why things happen in our lives (like getting in a fight and moving out of the house), but the Lord always has a plan for us and in this case I know that the Lord has been preparing Sandra to be baptized! 

I also had the chance to watch the funeral of President Thomas S. Monson. It was great! He was truly a prophet of God! He will be missed, but his stories and teachings will always play a part in my life!

I love y'all! Hope all is well at home!

Love,

Elder Cole

Part of the family email:

Hey Ma! This week was good! Sorry I am emailing so early, we traveled today and I won`t be able to write later. We had a little bit of a tough week, but all in all it turned out well.  I feel like the days just fly by and there is never enough time to get everything done, but I guess that is good haha. 

Today we are in a place called Chuy, half of the city is in Brasil and the other half is here in Uruguay. Its cool! It rained a lot this week.... not much else happened.... we have an investigator that moved out of her boyfriend's house so now she can get baptized! She just has to quit smoking, but she is working on that! Please pray for Sandra!