HEY EVERYBODY!! :-D HOWZIT GOING?!?! :-D
So what happened was is that we had Pres Swenson`s farewell conference yesterday with the entire mission so pday was moved to today but next week pday will be monday again (and the Fourth of July GOD BLESS AMERICA!!). The pictures are cool Sam :-D I miss warm . . . My June and July are like your December and January. COLD. I`d be alright with the cold but its also WET. No one wins :-P :-D
The pictures of the Caldecott Awards were really cool :-D I`m surprised I even remembered what that meant :-D Hopefully you guys had a lot of fun :-)
So things here in Cañete ae going alright. I say that because we are working hard and being tired which is really fun at the end of the day but our investigators aer having problems with keeping commitments :-P As well a lot of our investigators need to get married (some need to get divorced and THEN married). Its complicated. The process of getting the papers together to get divorced and married is difficult and as well people don`t tend to make things easier . . . especially ex husbands and wives. That was my complaining for the week :-) the rest is good :-D
So Pres and Sis Swenson are heading off home either today or tomorrow :-P We were all able to say goodbye yesterday to our mission mom and dad. it was a really fun day :-) Sis Swenson talked to us about how we know that there is a plan of salvation but that there is also a personal plan of salvation for each and every one of us. She said that the patriarchal blessing is a glimpse of that plan as well as blessings we receive in life and whether or not we follow their counsels. Crazy stuff. :-) It was really cool to think about.
Something really really cool that I didn`t realize the repercussions until yesterday. Elder Valdivia introduced me to a little 14 maybe 15 year old girl and asked if I remembered her. I said no. Her name was Ingrid and Elder Valdivia explained to me who she was. Months ago it would have had to have been in October, Me and Elder Valdivia were ``attacked by a group of kids yelling at us stuff in english ``I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU`` the cellphone of that sector Camilo still has that video of them swarming me. anyways, days later a girl, Nicole, and her friend, Igrid who we hadn`t met before, came strolling up to us and we started chatting. We got to talking and I though it`d be cool to give them a book of mormon and Elder Valdivia was like yeah :-D Its funny because at the time Ingrid was hiding from her parents who exactly then as well passed by in their car. After that we never saw them again and me and Elder valdivia were transfered. About two months ago Ingrid, her mom Ingrid, sister Rossio, brother Branco and one other Family member who I didn`t meet yesterday were baptized in the Church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints. Ingrids friend Nicole wasn`t really interested in the Book of mormon so she gave it to Ingrid who read it. Eventually Nicole told the missionaries there that Ingrid wanted them to come over and the rest is history. Until yesterday I hadn`t given it a second thought but then I suddenly remembered vividly two girls and giving them the Book of Mormon. She still remembered me even after all this time. It was really really cool. Its been more than 8 months since Camilo. Elder Bednar gave a talk once on Tender Mercies of the Lord and that my wonderful friends is one of them. By small and simple things are great things brought to pass and by small and simple things does god bring about the salvation of many souls. True as it can be.
Thats it for me. Dad I forgot to take the foto but I`ll see if I can send it off today. Until the next guys, Mom Dad Sam Meri Grace and Sophie, I love you all and Be HaPpy! :-D
SIncerely
Elder McConnell