March 7, 2016

Hey family and friends!

How are you guys! First I would like to thank you all for the support and for the prayers that I recieved and that I am doing a lot better. My stomach is getting better and supposedly I need to continue taking the medicine for 1 more week and then I will be able to go back to the hospital and do other exams to see if I still have the bacterial infection or if it has left! That's great news for me!

But this week also was one of the best weeks in the mission...

1) We put 2 new baptismal dates with some people that are natives, (and I say native because they still wear the corte that the old guatemaltecos wore and they speak another language)

2) We completed the goal of the mission this week to contact 105 different people and different contacts, have 15 new investigators and to have 2 new baptismal dates! and to complete the goal of the month is that we need to do that every week and also have 2 baptism this month and we have 3 fechas for this month!

3) We are going to have a secure baptism this week! He told us to announce it in church and that he will be baptised at 7:30 p.m. I'm so glad that he will be baptized! and the best is that he has his vision in the temple!

4) We were talking to a member who has had some problems because her mom was in the hospital and they had to cut off her leg, but her mom isn't a member and when she was in the hospital, the doctors asked her what religion she pertains to and she told them The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints! So when she returned to the house to recover from her wound, we had the chance as missionaries and the ward council, to go over to her house and to sing hymns and to share a message with her and she says that when he is better the first thing she is going to do is get baptized. It's was cool and weird because we had 10 members in her house and the bishop talked to her first and told her that she needs to be baptized and she said yes so we will be having a baptism in April or May!!!

Also, we had the opportunity to have divisions with the assistants! and those divisions were... really tiring... haha, we practically walked for a complete 6 hours... haha and we contacted a lot of people and all of the visits that we had fell.... haha even the assistants have bad days!;) but it was fun! I got to know Elder Savage a lot more and even though we didn't have a lot of success we were happy the whole day!

Well, that was my week, and I would like to end with a scripture thats in philippians  4:11-13

11 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.

12 I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.

13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

With all of the temptations, challenges, struggles, we need to learn to be content in all that we suffer, in all that we have, and in all that we recieve. and when we are "full" of blessings or when we are completly happy we need to show our gratitude, because if we don't we won't receive more or we won't recieve his help to help us overcome our struggles. I testify that Jesus Christ lives, I know that he is our Savior. I know that only through him we can be clean, pure and whole. I know that President Monson is a prophet of god! He recieves revelation and he is an instument in the hand of the Lord in every second to do what the Lord would do if he were here.

I love you guys!

Elder Flygare

February 29, 2016

Family and friends,

Where can I start? This week has been a long week. Well I will start with that I went to the doctors this week and had some exams done and I have a bacteria in my stomach called H Pylori. Well, with this disease I have been in the house a lot for the pain that I have had in my stomach, but this pain has been bearable but I will need to take medicine for 2 weeks and also I will need to be on a diet of just steamed chicken and vegetables. I can't eat any red meat (cow or pig), I can't eat anything with cheese, or milk, beans (which is the most common food here in Guatemala) and I can't eat fruit unless it is steamed because acidic food causes it to grow...

WOOHOO! the experiences here in the mission are seriously UNFORGETABLE! Haha!

Well other than that, we had other bad news when our investigator Manuel told us that he wants to wait to be baptized. He said he wants to prepare better and he said this week he would like to be baptized. It's hard to see someone so ready, who has paid tithing and who has really changed from the person he was before say that he wants to wait. It's not bad, because I know he will get baptized this month but we hope that he can really feel the need to do it this Saturday!

Well that was my week. Haha, but I will continue getting better and thanks for all the prayers that have been coming my way.

I love you guys so much!

Elder Flygare

February 22, 2016

Dear family and friends!

I feel that each week has been going by faster and faster....

I can't believe that I have been with my companion now for 5 weeks! That seems like forever ago that I came to this area.

Well the best news from this last week is that we are going to have a baptism this week! His name is Manuel. He is about 30 years old and he has attended church now like 7 or 8 times. He is an awesome person and we have really seen a change in him! He is excited to go to church and to read the Book of Mormon but the only fear that we have is that he feels ready but he doesn't want to fall away after his baptism but we will be with him in every step to help him stay here. I have faith that he will be baptized but we will see after his interview! It will be Wednesday and hopefully he will be ready! I know he will be! So this week other than that has been a little bit tough with our visits, they have fallen but we also have been finding people that are really wanting to learn more!

The scripture that really impacted me this week was in Mosiah 3:19. After it talks that we need to leave the natural man behind us, it tells us how we can become saints and how we can become like Christ.

...becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child,submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict uponhim, even as a child doth submit to his father.

We need to be a saint and repent and become better. We need to become like children.

Elder Flygare

February 8, 2016

Familia y amigos!

Hey! So one of the experiences that I have had was this week, I was on divisions and we went to a house of a family less actives and they have a daughter that isn't baptised. So our plans were to talk to them about the restoration to kindle the fire that was once in their hearts about the church. But when we got there, I felt propmted to talk about the faith and repentance. We started asking them questions about there family because their son was in the hospital for a few days because of his asthma. So they told us about their experience in the hospital and they saw two miracles in their life. 1) When the hospital was closed for emergencies they opened the doors for him. 2) The daughter that is 9 years old prayed every night for her brother and he re-cooperated from what was happening. So when we started the lesson, we could feel like they were all ears open. We shared a scripture in the Book of Mormon from Alma 32:21 and also Ether 12:6 and 12. We explained that the faith needs to be shown to our father in heaven through our actions and if we don't do anything we can't receive those miracles that are waiting for us.

We then shared there isn't any sin that can't be forgiven. It doesn't matter how low we feel that we are in life, that we can always rise up and become NEW. Isaiah 43:25. He will never remember our sins. Even before God during judgement day, he will never leave us, and he will be our lawyer.  As we followed the spirit we knew what scriptures we should share and how we could touch their hearts and they were almost in tears during this lesson! But not because of us, but because of the spirit.

But I would also like to tell you guys that we are going to have a baptism this week and we hope to have another baptism on the 27th of Febuary! I hope that everything can go well and that we can help them have all their answers to their prayers and questions!

Elder Flygare

February 1, 2016

Hey family and friends!

Well this week was awesome!

We found a ton of new investigators and we have found people that are going to progress and be baptised!

This area is so different from my other areas! My other areas haven't been so strong as a ward but this ward is super strong and its great to the member want to work and to help the missionaries! Our area has baptized around 28 people in the last year. so we are hoping to have a lot of success in this month of February and in march! We have three baptismal dates and we hope to have more by the end of this week. We have three people that are ready to be baptized in this month of February and we hope that everything can go well and that nothing will happen with them. We have felt the spirit so strong in our lessons and we hope to continue finding people to teach and to come unto christ.

This week we are going to have a reunion with president and I will have to wake up at 4:30 to get ready for the meeting and to set everything up at our building! yay for me! haha

I hope that everything goes well for you guys and that you guys will have a great week.

Sorry for the short letter but i will write more this next week!

Love you guys!

Elder Flygare