My goodness, how is it Monday already?! The time has flown by this week.

We tried to renew our forces in stressing the importance of attending church to our investigators as well as reading The Book of Mormon. It's critical that people do these things for themselves because through these methods people can obtain for themselves a testimony of the truthfulness of what we teach. We're not trying to PERSUADE people but the GUIDE them to find out for themselves. With reading of the Book of Mornon, it is apparent that we actually have to read it with them. Many people can't read and others can read a little but do not understand it. We made this our goal for one of our investigators. He's preparing for baptism, but we need to make sure he actually has a testimony of the truth and of the Book of Mormon for himself, otherwise, what good will it do him if he falls away from the church shortly after baptism? This is a life changing influence...not a one time rinse. At any rate, we this investigator lives down the mountain so three times this week we tried to meet up with him, with no success. Finally we were able to catch him at his house and read and share a message with him.

With other investigators we shared some great messages about the importance of going to church, miracles, obtaining miracles and growth in your faith through reading the Libro de Mormon and they seemed very responsive. However, as great an impact as these lessons should have had, they have their agency (ability to choose) and we can't take that away from them

With the rain, attendance at church has dropped quite drastically. We had 24 in church this week. But, some great things were seeing Agustin, one of the most recent converts, blessed the sacrament for the first time. In order to bless the sacrament, a man must have the Aaronic Priesthood (there are two levels of Priesthood Authority-this is the lesser). Being able to use the Priesthood to help bless others is a reward in and of itself.

Had my first illness. I woke with stomach cramps and put a friend's theory to the test and drank some soda to get rid of the pain. It may have helped a little. The cramps subsided, but I still ended up sleeping for the entire day. I think I may have had a pretty high fever at one point but the thermometer was in Celsius...so I wasn't one hundred percent sure. Felt a little better the next day, but still not one hundred percent. Ate lots of broth soup those past two days. It was so much that I literally think my body rejected the very idea of any more broth and I was kind of sick again Sunday morning. Have no fear, I am doing well once again.

Oh yes! I know what else! Agustin is preparing to go to the temple with us this Saturday on behalf of his family! He's so excited about it and so are we! I love the temple!

Speaking of temple, we have started a temple prep class to prepare some families for higher ordenances in the temple and to be sealed to their families for time and all eternity! Que bonita! What a wonderful class! Hermana Sanchez is teaching and it's amazing how much you can learn even when you already know the things that are being taught!

That's all for today! Love you all!

1) My District after Futbol. I think I actually really like futbol. :)

2) How many people can you fit in the back of a small pick up? At least 17 give or take. This is our commute to Cuilapa with the road being fixed.