Thanks for the birthday package!! It got to Pasto on the 17th but I Didn´t get it until Friday because it was with the zone leaders. We were all super excited to get a package and I opened it here with my district :) the 2 things I was most excited about were the Preach my Gospel flags and the missionary scripture book. I have started marking all the scriptures in preach my gospel and it is amazing how I still haven´t studied a lot of things and I´m already almost finishing the mission. My goal is to try and study all of preach my gospel (including the scriptures) by the end of my mission. The book you sent me my old companion elder Laws had the same book so I thought that is a cool little book to study too.
Of course I was super excited about all the little church pictures and stuff to give out too. I am going to try and make a gift for all my converts before I leave the mission, so those little pictures and cards will be great to give out. THANK YOU!!
That is crazy that Carlee already got home from her mission! It is crazy how fast the time passes. I still feel like I have a ton of time to go, but I know it is going to pass super fast too.
This week was a good week again so thanks for the prayers again! We had 7 people at church again and have a couple great families that will get baptized soon. One family has been super special and we had some cool experiences with them this week. It is a sister that is inactive but wants to have her son baptized in the church. We went and contacted them about 2 weeks ago and she said she has been inactive pretty much since she got baptized, but that she wants to return to the church and have her son baptized. Her son is 8 years old and he is super excited to get baptized! At first she didn´t want us to talk to her husband because he is a "jehovahs witness" but we invited to listen during the first lesson and he excepted the invitation to read and pray. Ever since then it has been smooth sailing. The husband started reading and praying and tells us almost every lesson that he feels super peaceful when we go to teach them. A once Jehovahs witness accepted the invitation to get married to his wife and after that to get baptized. We had a super spiritual lesson and one of the counselor´s in the ward helped us out a lot. We have a super good counselor here and he shared his experiences about marriage how he basically sacrificed everything to get married with his wife here in Pasto. He is from Cali and had a good job and life there. After his mission he met his future wife at a church activity and decided to move to Pasto because he wanted to marry her. He moved to Pasto without a job and even had to beg for his food sometimes, but he promised this guy that if he got married then he would find work and would receive a ton of blessings in his life. After sharing his experience, the counselor asked Mauricio (the jehovahs witness) if he would get married and he and his wife were both crying and saying how they wanted to change their lives and get married! It was a neat experience and I have no doubt that they are going to receive lot of blessings. They are going to get married and then Mauricio will get baptized after. The best experiences in the mission are to see families become converted because the gospel is all about converting families right?!
Well that is the experience that I wanted to share and thanks again for the birthday wishes! I had a good birthday and my district bought me a surprise cake! They also followed the Latin tradition and smashed an egg on my head and poured flour on me, but guess I have to enjoy that with my last months in Colombia. I haven´t gotten a release date yet, and I´m sure I won´t get one until a week or two before the end of my mission. I know some missionaries with less than a month that still haven´t gotten their release date, so I am not expecting anything too soon.
Love ya all and have a great week!!
-Elder Armstrong
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