#baptizm

     Well as indicated by the title this week we talked a ton about baptism with our investigators, we contacted two references this week who were golden, we taught them both with a member present and in the first lesson we had with them solved every single big doubt they had, we conquered anything that could stop them from getting baptized. At the end of both of the lessons the investigator told that they are going to get baptized......And we also found out that both of them are not in our sector.... shoot!

But it is okay because as my companion likes saying the celestial kingdom doesn't have boundaries and that we played a key role in helping both of them (as well as a golden family of 4 we found two weeks ago) and that we will be blessed.

Entrance to a contact's home--no one home...

     In other news this week we had Family Home Evenings every single night (we even had two one night) each of them with an active family who invited a nonmember or a less active family member and it was awesome! But one of the Family Home Evenings got a little out of hand. It was the one last night and we had it with a really active family and the dad's less active little sister (19 years old) and her non-member boyfriend (also 19) but good golly gosh we had a lesson on Finding Faith in Christ and why he is important. After we watched a movie on it-I asked the question, "So how have YOU gained a testimony of Jesus Christ as your Savior?" to each of the active members... Well the dad of the active family is the high priest quorum leader and I could not tell you how but in response to this simple question he began talking about Christ's resurrected body and celestial beings and just other REALLY DEEP DOCTRINE... after that his less-active sister asked a question about how she could know if God really existed and how the scriptures seem to contradict themselves, just some doubts that she had and holy Cats her family members started just tearing her apart. My companion and I stopped it and told her that we would come back this week and that we would have the answer to her question. Moral of the story: we have to do everything in love, if the main or end goal is to get someone to come to church, doesn't work, we have to talk to people, but more importantly listen to them. (we have two ears and only one mouth for a reason), but when we help people to become converted that is when we will be able to see more growth in the church and it will be real growth.

An actual Trash Can

     Today my companion and I went to a hill in our sector and read the Book of Mormon for about 5 hours, it was amazing (pictures are coming), but any of you who have never read the book or have gone a while without doing this, my invitation for each of you is to read the Book of Mormon and then to sincerely ask God in prayer if it is true. It doesn't matter if you already have a testimony of it, do it again. As I read the first 100 pages of the book today and looking our over a valley here in Chile I could visualize everything that I was reading, it was a day to remember.

I love each of you, and remember while it is getting colder and colder where you are it is getting warmer and warmer where I am, so have fun!!!!

LOVE YOU

Elder Hutchins