Nov. 19, 2012

Hola familia, This week went really good and ended even better. We worked hard and we were priviledged to be able to help Gary and Maritza get married Saturday and then afterwards Maritza was baptized. It was a really good night! It went really well and was planned very well too. They were so happy and you could tell that keeping another commandment will always make you happier in life. They are going to be awesome members of the church. They are going through a lot of hard times and this usually always happens because the Lord is shaping them into true saints in these latter days. It always requires difficult times to see how much the Lord truly loves us and how we need to put our trust and faith in Him so that we can overcome these trials in our lives. But it always helps us become and transform into the people that our Heavenly Father wants us to become. We also got to help out two eight year olds be baptized. One of them was the daughter of a convert.  She is reading the book of mormon and has already read all the way to Alma and is juist 8 years old. But when we were doing the baptismal service the 8 yeart old girl hadn't arrived yet and  the other 8 year old boy was really scared to get into the water. They were trying desperately to convince him for like a half an hour. We were thinking that we were going to just have to end up doing the service without them. But then his sister took him to a room to talk with him and he finally was ready and right when he came back, the other girl got there. We could see that things worked out perfectly so  that all three could be baptized. The Lord always will work things out in His way and in His time. We were also very surprised at church when the mom and little brother of this guy who is preparing to go on a mission came to church. We never thought she would come because she usually doesn't take things very seriously when we teach her. But she stayed all three hours too. It was way cool to see her and her son was even way surprised when he saw her walk into the church.  We are hoping that everything will work out with them and we will work hard on our end so that it will. I love you guys a ton.     Love,   Elder Christoffersen