Wednesday, September 21, 2016

My grandson and granddaughter and Elder Bens inspiring letters of miracles this week in the work and their testimony of how much the Lord loves His children and how aware of each of us He is, has strenghtened my testimony. Each day we see and feel the special direction and enabling power of our loving Savior. I am so grateful to be involved en His work of Salvacion and even more grateful that my two oldest grandchildren are willing to be instruments in the hands of the Lord. Dont ever forget the great lessons of life we are   learning now. Namely put the Lord first in every day of our life and seek to do His will and not your own. Isnt it amazing what He can make out of our lives when we turn them over to Him. So happy to see Ruth get baptized Elder Norton. Now she needs a friend in the ward and a calling so she can keep learning and growing in the Gospel. So much effort is spent here in the South America South Area rescuing those who are less active and need to be loved back to the fold. After one of our open chapel open houses, a young man came and learned a little about what the Mormons believed, and he came back on Sunday  with some friends and then kept on coming with more friends. Now in a ward with one active Young man they now have twelve attending regularly and some missionary lessons starting. Another open chapel had 50 regular attenders at Sacrament meeting and now has 75 regular attendees. Another had 6 baptism dates set before the event was over. One high councelor prayed about who to invite to the open house in his ward and he felt inspired to invite his neighbor of 30 years. To his surprise he came, and felt the spirit and took the lessons from the missionaries and was baptized. Each Capilla Abierta or open chapel has miracles. Just like the amazing miracles of conversion that you are experiencing. We are heading to Uruguay for three days next week and have set up two trainings   with stake and ward mission leaders to help get more couples helping coordinate open chapels. They are such a great way to get the members working closely with the missionaries to help hasten the work. This mission is flying by, every day is packed and Im going to turn around and we will all be home. Such a very short opportunity to full time devote ourselves to bringing souls to Christ. My two oldest Grandchildren are amazing and their  obedience and hard work are surely paying off. The Spirit is such a great teacher when we do our part and keep a willing humble heart. We are so blessed to be their Nan and Pop. Today is the first day of spring and everyone is celebrating. Lots of activities in the park and the office folks bringing food for each other. I found yellow pink and orange cookies at the bakery we walk past on our way to work to share with everyone. The subway was full of bright eyed 15 year olds on their way for a school activity to visit the ship museum in Puerto Madera, so fun to visit with them. This is an amazing city with amazing people that need the gospel. One kind young man of 25 told me he was an athiest, but was happy to take my card with the church website to watch wonderful videos about families. He has a girlfriend and is studying to be a lawyer. and was so helpful with my trying to conjugate these challenging verbs in this language.  Everyday is a new adventure and you would be so proud of Pop teaching all these trainings on selfreliance and all these liders about capilla Abiertas. Last Sunday we drove three hours one way to speak in a small branch(Junin) out in the country; and pop did a training second hour for their open chapel event this next Saturday. We had to leave our apartment at 5.30 am and didnt get home until after 8. We sure sleep well every night.,and lots of juiced vegtables and fuits help keep us going.Right out side our front door a little Bolivian girl sells every fruit and vegtable you could want. Pop just gulps every time he pays her. Everything is pretty expensive here. Keep doing all the great things you are all doing for each other and everyone around you. We have the best family in the World. Love you all so very much

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