So this week we had a nice hard working week with a lot of lessons! The weeks just have flown by out here in Aruba and now out of no where i'm on my last week here in Aruba... Yeah, they've made some new laws which only alow us 90 days here legally. So pretty much that means i'm off to a different island this next week which i'm pretty sure is going to be Corocao which is right next to aruba. Yeah i'm going to miss here a lot because i've really come to love here in aruba and the branch and area and just everything. The only thing i wont miss is the bike ride to the church all the time. Yeah that was just hot and long... but it was good for me!
Anyhow this week in church we had Alexandra and Fransisco. We were very excited to see them both there but at the same time we were a little sad not to see other investigators of ours there in church. Alexandra is progressing really great with her testimony and basicaly is just waiting to be baptized because she's still not married to Sandro. But the good news is that we're starting to get Sandro involved in the teaching now! He's finaly starting to let us teach him and he's actualy liking it all up till now. I wasnt very suprised that he likes it though because i mean its true who could listen to this message with sincer heart and not like it? NO one! I think we got on his good side when we started becoming better friends with him and decided to do an activity with him of bowling! Yeah, it was pretty fun not to mention that he showed me a trick or 2... He's in a bowling league and averages almost 200 which in my book is way good! Any how from there we scheduled a vist with him and went over the first lesson with him and his future wife Alexandra and we even had Luisa come along with us to help out. Lets just say it was by far one of the most spiritual lessons on my mission just from the sweet testimony Luisa gave of her own baptism a couple of weeks back! She shared an experience that she had never shared with us before about when she prayed that just my heart as i listened! I don't know what its like being a parent, but i do know how proud i was to see Luisa grow so much spiritualy ever since we began teaching her a couple of months ago. She shared her experience of how at first when we would pass by it was just to be nice, and then when we started to invite her to come to church she would just find excuses to say no. Then when we started to call her on sunday mornings to come she was a little tired and didnt want to come but she did anyway because she promised she would. Now she comes to church and is amazed at how fast it fly's by she loves it so much and just wants there to another class added to it. Then she started to share about her first time to actualy pray about what we taught her to see if it was true and she shared her feelings as she prayed as though she felt a tingling from the top of her head to the tip of her toes that was a comfort to her. She had never felt it before and went to ask a friend what it ment. (this friend actualy had been giving us problems before because she goes to some other church and thinks that the story about Joseph smith is crazy) Her friend told her that the feeling was a good answer to her prayer and it just helped Luisa confirm her testimony that the BOM truely is the word of God and that he was called as a prophet to restore the true church to the earth! thats just a little piece if anything of the what she was bearing testimony of as we were with Alexandra and Sandro and the spirit was so strong! It was a perfect experience for Sandro, helped Alexandra grow in the testimony she already has and i was so happy for Luisa and her strong testimony! HOnestly that night was a night to remember! That right there just made my whole week awesome not to mention we got to see Elder M. Russell Ballard speak to the whole Caribbean at a fireside on Saturday! Listing to apostles has definately become my favorit thing about the mission! To hear from the Lords chosen servents on the earth is truely an edifying experience! Let me just confirm to all of you once again that the church of Jesus Christ has been restored to the earth and just like every week my testimony has been confirmed this week that Christ's church is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints!
Man do i love this work!
Much Love from Aruba,
Elder Lopez
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