¿Comó están amigos!?!?!

 

Tranfers calls were this morning and...... I am staying in the North side! Elder EZ is going to the South to serve with Elder Ashton and Elder Crocco is coming up here. But I am staying in the same apartment in the downtown area. I know that the Lord knows where I need to be to learn and grow. I am excited and nervous at the same time. It will be good to continue to work with a lot of the same people. I have faith that this area will continue to grow!

 

This past week was fun and anxious at the same time. We got to see Vianney and he was sad that one of us was going to leave. But we had lunch with him and I hope that he continues to go to church and fulfill his calling. He is the greeter for sacrament. So it is a good calling for him because he gets to practice his English. But I am excited to continue to see him. But we also finally got a hold of a family that lives in the Northern part of our area, la familia Maravilla. Unfortunately, they have no desire to come back to church for a while. They were very upfront with us and I makes me sad that they don't even want to meet with us. But we pray that they will eventually go back to church.

 

We also met with Arturro Pratt, the Socialist from Chile, and he surprised us a lot. He had the Book of Mormon right next to his bed! He is actually reading. Hopefully he can keep reading and start to ask us more questions. But we were not able to get in contact with Ruban and Cindy or Mauricio this week but hopefully next week. We had a really cool experience with our neighbor on Saturday. We had forgotten something at the apartment so we ran back. We saw our neighbors and they invited us in to eat some food. He is Canadian and she is from the Philipines. They are super nice and the food was super good. The conversation got to what we do and we talked for a half an hour about prophets and invited them to watch conference at the end of the month. It was a very informal conversation but we introduced some gospel principles and hopefully we can have the English elders start meeting with them. We also visited Hermana De La Fuente that evening. I feel bad for her because she is moving and she lives alone. Her kids see her a lot but she seems lonely. She said it was nice that we stopped by and we could talk to her for a little bit.

 

The coolest thing happened yesterday! We got the information about a less-active guy from one of our areas and we decided to see him before his ward started. We got there and at first he seemed that he did not really want to talk to us. But he invited us in and we started talking to him. It turns out that he was baptized 3 years ago and he has not been to church for a long time. He asked what time church started and we told him 1 p.m. We were suprised to hear that he wanted to go! He hopped in the shower and he met us there. We are hopeully going to get to know him better and he can get reactivated. The Lord really does put you in the right place at the right time.

 

Spiritual Thought: Do we sometimes forget all the Savior did for us? It is really cool to pick one of the gospels and read it all the way through. It really makes you appreciate what the Savior did for you. I personally love Luke, but you can pick any one!

 

Mucho amor,

 

Elder Kipp