November 30th

Family and friends,

Well this week was a good week. We had 4 investigators in church and they all have a day to be baptized on the 19th of December! They are super pilas and we hope that they can keep having the desires to recieve the blessings of this true gospel.

So this last few months have been super busy that I forget the holidays and birthdays of my family and friends! I forgot that Thursday was Thanksgiving and that Grandpa Deano's birthday was on the 21st! Sorry Grandpa, happy late birthday! and that Grandma Flygare and Teresa had their birthdays also! Sorry! I'm losing it now in the mission! jaja but Happy Birthday!

So this week for Thanksgiving we didn't do anything special. I was on divisiones with an Elder from Nicaragua! and I totally forgot about Thanksgiving! I always forget about the holidays here in Guatemala. But the good thing is that today for lunch, a member made us lunch and we ate turkey, mashed potatoes, salad, and rolls! It was like I was at home for the holiday!

Well we had a great experience this week and the scripture that my mom shared with me today really fits in with this story. So when I was on divisions we were contacting some people and we came to this house and no one answered and this man from the next house over came out and yelled at us asking for who we were looking for. Then he asked us what church we were from. So we presented ourselves and he started to say a ton of bad things about us and that we need to preach the correct gospel and that we need to learn from the Bible because its the only true book. Usually at this moment I get mad and use scriptures to make them mad and that we preach the right gospel and leave them still mad with us, but this time I felt something different tell me not to get mad. So I was patient until I had the opportunity to share with him what we believe, that Joesph Smith isn't a God and was only a prophet. We then shared some scriptures to help him understand that the Bible isn't the only book and word of god, we told him about the Book of Mormon and that Chirst came and visited his own ancestors and that the Bible testifies of the Book of Mormon. We left him interested in what we were talking about and we invited him to read 3 Nephi 11 and we passed by two days later and sadly he wasn't there, but his mom was there and she told us that he had been reading the Book of Mormon those last two days and was comparing it with the Bible and I felt such a warmth come over me. I know that this message can change thier lives. Maybe he won't fully accept the gospel now but it's a big step from where he started and I know that the spirit testified to him that these things were true.

Love you guys!

Elder Flygare