2011 Dec 26

2011 Dec 26

Hey! It was way fun talking to you guys yesterday!

The reason that I got cut off was because I bumped the power cord of my phone so it turned off again.

But the thing that I was going to tell I was going to tell you guys is that Nestor, the super, super pilas guy that we were teaching got baptized! I sent you guys pictures of me with him in the temple but I had changes before I had a chance to talk to him about how he liked it. I also sent you the attachment where it says how he got baptized but it was in Spanish so I will translate it for you. What happens is that he had already come to church with us like 5 times but he would never accept a fecha to get baptized but he said when elder Fuentes went to talk to him with his new companion that in the temple that he felt a peace and a joy unlike anything he had ever felt in his life. And because of that, they were able to put the fecha and he got baptized 2 weeks earlier. But Nestor is one of the most pilas and prepared investigators that I had ever met in my whole mission. He just found a Book of Mormon in an ATM machine and just took it and started reading it. He was just reading it every day when I felt impressed (or I was thirsty… who knows. Maybe God made me thirsty at the precisely right moment) and so I went in his tienda to buy a drink and while he got up to get the soda, I noticed the Book of Mormon (Libro de Mormón) on one of his shelves and I asked him if he was a member and he looked at me kind of funny then long story short, I found out that he was not even a member but that he was and had been reading the Book of Mormon for the last 6 months and then we set an appointment to meet with him and he was super great and came to church almost every Sunday (church started kind of early there so sometimes he would accidentally sleep in and miss church) and he was way great but he never accepted a date to be baptized (and it didn´t help that my comp at the time was always upset at me at the time and that is not very conducive to being able to feel the spirit) but then he came to the temple open house and he loved it and got baptized because of the peace and joy that he was able to feel there. Good experience.

And there isn't really a lot more that I have to tell you guys because I told you guys everything else yesterday.

Oh you guys also wanted to know about my journal. I love it. It is a little bit prettier than my older one and now the things fit a lot better in there as well. I think that I will need some more pages later on (maybe for my birthday) but for now, I am doing fine.

Well, I have got to go. Love you guys!

Love,

Elder Froelich

I also sent you guys a bunch of fotos of the Christmas conference. More than anything so that I wouldn´t have to worry about losing them.

I am also going to include the article that talks about Nestor and the temple.