How are you doing? Are you all surviving? Enjoying life? Working hard? All of the above?! I hope so! This past week was awesome! Going to be honest, nothing really crazy happened, but just a great week of working hard and enjoying the mission. Of our investigators right now, we are continuing to work really hard with two, Daniel and Liz, and they should both be baptized this Saturday! We were actually hoping that Liz would be baptized this past Saturday, but, turns out, she didn't talk with her dad to get permission to be baptized. So, we had to push it back a week, and she was really sad, but if she talks with her dad and gets permission, she will be baptized this Saturday and she is super excited! With Daniel, he just continues to be amazing. He has only been meeting with the missionaries for just over a month and has already taken all the steps to be baptized. Super excited for them both! With exception of those two, we have been blessed with many other investigators and one of them, Araceli Angulo, accepted a baptismal invitation this week! We are super excited for her and really just super excited for all of our investigators because, as I think I have mentioned before, the people of Bolivia are honestly just the best! I'm loving the opportunity to work with them and share this beautiful gospel with them. Now, I'm just going to share some awesome things about Bolivia with you guys so you can feel jealous and want to move here. Everything is SO cheap. I bought 25 bananas here for 6 Bolivianos the other day (7 Bolivianos is 1 Dolar). There are little stores (tiendas) on every street where you can buy just about all the groceries you could need. Everything comes in bags, and I mean everything. Juice, milk, soup, food, etc. All in bags. Don't know why that makes Bolivia better, but it just does :) Honestly, I just love Bolivia; the food, the culture, the people, everything! Now that I've given you a little snapshot of my week and why Bolivia is so awesome, I will now give my thought for the week. This one comes from my personal study this past week. I am VERY close to finishing the Book of Mormon here and I am so excited, but I always find myself quite sad as I finish, not because I'm about to finish, but because of where the story goes. For those needing a little refresher, Jesus Christ visits the ancient people of ancient America and establishes His church among them, and a couple hundred years of peace and joy follow this experience. However, after only a couple hundred years, the people become very wicked all over again, and, eventually, all the righteous, with exception of Moroni, are killed by the wicked. This people literally saw Jesus Christ, our Savior and Redeemer, and descended into wickedness in only a matter of a couple hundred years. This is unbelievably sad, but there is an important pattern that we can pull from it and apply to our lives. It is said in these chapters that the first thing that began to lead them to their unrighteousness was their pride, which came from all of their many blessings that they had received. Pride is unbelievably powerful and I am here to tell you now to beware of pride, or glorifying yourself above your God. Remember, the people of Nephi saw Jesus Christ and they were able to fall away because of pride. How much easier would it be for us, those who have not been visited personally by Christ, to fall away if we are not strengthening ourselves daily in the church? This is what we teach as the theme of Perseverar Hasta el Fin, or Endure to the End. I counsel you all that if you are not DAILY strengthening yourself in scriptures and prayer, you should start today, so you can remember your God and keep from being lifted up in pride. This is the way to be truly happy and receive that which we all want: Eternal Life in happiness. You guys are the best! I hope that you all have amazing weeks and if you have any questions for me, feel free to send me an email and I promise to do my best to respond. Love you all and bid you farewell till next week. ¡Hasta luego!
Elder Wynn
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