I am loving the work here in Villa Gonzalez

March 12, 2018

Santigo Mission

Elder Thomas

Hola, this week was awesome! We worked really hard this week. We found a lot of news and we put some dates for baptism. I am loving the work here in Villa Gonzalez. It has got to the point in my mission where I just want to teach lessons with people. I love teaching people the restoration and telling them that we really do have a prophet in today’s world. I am so grateful for the opportunity I have to feel the spirit with the people here in Villa Gonzalez. We had a really cool lesson this week. It was a referral. His name is Alex. He goes to institute. After we finished teaching the restoration the spirit was definitely there. He asked a question that as a missionary is amazing to hear. Haha! He asked how do I become a member of your church? So we put a date with him and he came to church this week for all three hours! So we are pretty pumped. Also here right now in Villa Gonzalez the ward members are working pretty hard to get referrals for us and visit non members. Really there are like 400 members in Villa Gonzales, but only like 38 go to church. So we visited some non members with a member yesterday. It was awesome! It is starting to cook up. The sun is coming after us. Haha! I hit my six month mark and a tradition we have here is you burn a tie after you finished six months. Haha, it was awesome! P day was awesome today. We got to go to Santiago, I saw Elder Louis Jeune. He is doing awesome. He told me Fam Galvez is still going to church and they are strong so I am really happy about that. I also saw a lot of people in my group including Elder Gujardo, Elder Eliason and Hermana Bingham. So that was pretty cool. Oh we also played a lot of basketball so that was fun. I am so grateful for the time I have had here already. One day I was thinking of the time I have had here so far. My eyes started to water up as I have thought how the mission has brought me closer to my Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. How blessed I am to have had such amazing companions and teach amazing people. How grateful I am to have grown my testimony of the Book of Mormon. And how blessed I am to share the gospel of Jesus Christ and bring people unto Christ in these latter days.
Love you all,
Elder Walker