It´s great to hear from you! Glad to hear you could wish Connor a happy birthday, teach some yoga, and spend some time with Ruth. I didn´t realize she wasn´t in the same ward as you guys anymore!
Also, Mom I know that you have spiritual gifts because you have several Christlike attributes that are not common in the world! Open up "Preach My Gospel" and read Chapter 6 and I know that you will see you have a level of those Christlike attributes in your spirit! I love you Mom!
Elder Winward and I had a great week! While we were not able to hold the baptism of Nicolas quite yet he continues to repent and change daily! He attended church again and is showing powerful desires to follow Christ! It has truly been a pleasure visiting with him and helping him to understand the gospel of Jesus Christ!
In addition to Nicolas we had three other investigators (or friends of the church as we like to call them now) who showed great faith by attending. Two are young girls- Celeste and Morena. They are 10- and 8-years-old. Their father does not want to accept our commitments to come unto Christ, but he loves that his daughters want to. He has committed to taking them to church every week, and came through yesterday!
My companion reminded me yesterday what a miracle it is that we met Celeste and Morena. One night before going home, we wanted to make one more visit. We stopped and prayed about which direction to go, and by so doing when we finished praying we were in the path of a recent convert, Juan Pedro, that was going home. We went to visit with him in his house and as a result found a neighborhood that we didn´t even know existed (you can´t see it on the map).
When we went back another day to visit the recent convert Morena saw us and said that we had visited with her before (she was mistaken- they were other missionaries). We were confused but she had just recently moved to live with her Dad, and was excited to be able to keep learning about the gospel like she had done before.
In addition to Celeste and Morena, there is a woman named Ana that attended. She is probably about 60-years-old, but walked for probably an hour to be able to attend church. We had met her about a month ago, but after a couple of visits we couldn´t go by anymore because of the distance from our other investigators that were progressing. We felt to head by this past Saturday and to our surprise she had been thinking every Sunday since we visited her about attending church. We were finally able to arrive in the correct moment and give her the extra push that she needed to make it to church.
I know that God lives and loves us! He is working in the hearts of the children of men! I hope am forever indebted to Him. I know that we all have been bought with a price, and a hope that we can live in a way that honors that sacrifice of our Savior!
Much Love,
Elder Lambert
Photos:
1. The sunset in Chacabuco,
2. The church here in Chacabuco.
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