Hey everyone!
This last week was great! We got a lot of work done and were
able to get some new people prepared for baptism dates. We are teaching a
couple families and working with some part member families. It is the last week
of the year so we are working hard on getting baptism dates set for this week.
So far we have one, his name is Leandro. We have been teaching him for awhile,
and he is from a part member family. His sister has been a member for awhile
and he has been coming to church with her often. We are preparing him for this
Saturday! What a Christmas gift for him and for us to be able to be baptized at
this time of the year!
Other than that, the heat has been picking up, and for the
first time (surprise) I have been getting sunburnt. The sun has been brutal the
past week, and since I am done with the training we get to leave the house
earlier everyday when the sun is stronger!
We have been teaching the family Aguilar these last two
weeks. And just the other day we had a really cool experience. We were talking
with them about bringing them to church and everything. And she shared her
testimony with us. That she has been receiving so many blessings in her life
since we have started visiting them. That her Dad sent them money for
Christmas, they were able to get a free fridge from a friend, all of this
really cool stuff has been happening to them. And she told us that she KNOWS
its because of the gospels influence in her life. And she shared with us that
she knows the church is true! We are preparing this family to be baptized the
23rd of January so keep an eye on that!
We had a cool zone meeting today. We got together and had
pizza and played some UNO for PDAY. I guess thats what all the missionaries
here usually do on P day. So it was pretty fun. We also now have 2 hermanas in
our zone. They were sent here to die (meaning they both only have 2 months of
their mission left). Not die literally. So now we have 12 missionaries in our
zone and in one of the other sectors there are 4 missionaries working. This is also
our last Sunday at 3pm in the afternoon, after the new year the church is going
to start at 8am. I am not sure how good that is going to be for the ward haha.
As far as skype. My comp and I are going to be doing our
calls around 1 or 2PM Ecuador time the 25th. We probably are not going to call
the day before to confirm because it costs a lot of money so just have skype up
and ready! But if for some reason there are problems we will call Christmas Day
to make sure everything is ready to go. I think that we are 2 or 3 hours ahead.
I wanted to bare my testimony about enduring to the end.
Because we have a lot of inactives and less actives out here in Ecuador. We
need to be baptized and get on the straight and narrow path. And after this,
the work never ends, we have to progress and perfect ourselves in everyway that
we can. Its called Enduring to the end for a reason! We need to be 100%
committed to the goal of eternal life and inheriting the kingdom of God. If you
know or have friends that are struggling with this, help them out! We cant let
anybody slip away! We need to do everything we can to help them or we will be
held accountable as well
Jacob 1:19
And we did magnify our office unto the Lord, taking upon us the responsibility, answering the sins ofthepeople upon our own heads if we did not teach them theword of God with all diligence; wherefore,by laboring with our might their blood might not come upon; otherwise their blood would come upon ourgarments, and we would not be found spotless at the lastday.
I love you guys! Merry Christmas!
Elder Solari
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