What’s up fam? How’s life? Things are going good here, another week flown by. I went on divisions with Roylance twice this week, which was fun. Tuesday we had our zone conference, that’s why my letter was so crappy. But it turned out being a really good conference. We arrived at 7:50 to find out the president had started early and without us. In all our meetings now we start by reading a chapter in the Book of Mormon and have a discussion about the lecture. We read Mosiah 5. It was amazing the things we could pull out of there and the wisdom of the president. We talked about a change of heart, the power and security in covenants, the taking on of the name of Christ and not being "asnos" (v. 14). Then i had the part of companionships and it turned really good.
The only bad part about the whole thing was Elder Cortes. He’s about to go home in two weeks and he’s been a problem his whole mission. We really tried to help him a lot he just has a crappy attitude about everything. Lately he won’t go to the district meetings and we wouldn’t even report his numbers. So in the interview with the pres, he told me and Acosta to give him a choice to either go home right then or change some stuff and see it through. We talked to him afterwards with the assistants and he decided to stay but told us "I'm sorry I'm Not going to change my attitude, I'm just this way." I wanted to just tell him yes, you could change, you just don’t want to. We always have the choice to be who and how we want to be.
Did I ever tell you about the "banda"? Its a group of teenagers future missionaries we’ve been teaching and baptizing. It started with Christian bringing Milton to play at the chapel; Milton is just powerful and got baptized in two weeks. Then Milton and Christian taught a cousin Luis who didn’t want anything to do with us and wanted to get baptized at the second visit. Milton got confirmed, received the priesthood, and baptized Luis all in the same day. And we are going to teach another friend Alberto today who is Jehovah Witness (TJ) they are just a solid group of young men who have launched the ward into action. It’s awesome to see the chain they have and their excitement to bring their most precious friends into the gospel (we even taught Melton’s girlfriend a lesson). They do it valiantly. They have a winner’s attitude; there is no "no" in their vocabulary. They don’t think of "what if" they think of "because I have been given much I too must give" and "I want to be the one who baptizes him" incredible examples.
Family, Share the Gospel!!!! Valiantly and with a winner’s attitude, if you think they will say no then they probably will. If you think" ill drop this pass" you probably will! No one can say no to you, no one.
God lives and loves us. An interesting thought, there are some of us that he misses as well. He misses us and wishes we would return to him. We all miss London. Imagine that feeling and even more for those have gone astray... Even in our own family. God misses you.
I love you all so much. There is nothing better than my family. Take care.
-ELDER SOLOMON
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