June 7, 2011 - Letter Home

Nothing Can Stop It! 

District Meeting

Hey Family! What a huge blessing are all of your many letters and pictures! What would I do without my loving and supporting family!? I am so blessed to have you all to return to; no one of my companions' families has compared to you guys. Some other missionaries have had unapproving non-member parents and familiy, or none at all. Others had to return to absolute poverty or lack of education with no one to help them. Man, how I am blessed! Thank you so much! The Lord has been good to us. I am so thankful that our family comes close to being a family of Zion as seen in Moses 7:18. Being committed to follow the Lord together and to help one another and do our best to be personally pure in heart helps a home come close to replicating what it'll be like beyond the veil. Thanks for that. :) I will continue to battle for that.

This week was hard. We are working like crazy, getting some of the best numbers in our zone, and at the same time doing 2-3 four-hour service projects per week. Yesterday we did a service project after lunch, and came back home completely beat from the work and from the last week. Man! I really needed this P-day and these awesome e-mails. I can't burn out; this area needs us so bad.

But, after a week of working like crazy, nobody came to church again. Man, something big has gotta be coming because we're doing our part, the ward is getting more excited about missionary work and doing their part, but it seems like the people are just using their free agency to choose the wrong still. That means God's gonna have to do something big. But, I'm keeping faith and I will keep the path and get through these difficulties, because I KNOW that there's another side to all of life's difficulties. I know how glorious it is to see the Tree of Life again, having passed through certain mists of darkness. I love the Lord and am thankful for His goodness and mercy to all of His children. He'll always make it right if we do what's right.

So, our house we're building is almost done. We had a sweet bonfire last night with our neighbors. 

Dinner with Neighbors

The dad, Rafael, accepted baptism, and we are hoping and praying the rest of the family, although not seeming as interested in our messages, can follow suit. Something big has to happen to them. Please place Rafael, Janice, Matteus, Gabriel, and Andre in prayers in the temple. 


Our English class was a huge success, so much that we had to split it into two with me and Elder Persinger teaching different classes. We played games and they ate cookies. We're always making cookies... :) I think our investigators gotta be sick of cookies by now. :D 
We're teaching a pastor and several people of his non-demonational congregation. I'm pretty excited about that, actually. Soon we're gonna declare authority and invite them all to baptism, with permission of the pastor, of course. We asked the ward to do a special fast just for them, because it could be a really great miracle for the ward IF we're worthy enough to allow the Lord to send the Holy Ghost to testify through us to them that baptism what they need to do. Well, we're praying. And the work will go forward! Nothing can stop it!

Nothing else really of note this week. Finding people, teaching people, prayin, reading scriptures, eating, sleeping. 

Dilberto Lunch

It's an eternal round :).

I love you and will start to send letters now that I got addresses. Hope you like the couple photos I got this week.

Love love love,
Elder Carpenter