Elder Kyle Reynolds: Another great week...Another Baptism!!!

We are in the 4th Quarter!!! Give it all you got!

Hello everyone!

This week was another great week to be a missionary! Elder Mamani and I are finally getting better so we are having more desires to serve. Elder Mamani is such a great example to me. Even though he only has 3 months in the mission, he is so mature and so ready to serve with me! We are doing great. At times I find myself with a lot of pride, but the antidote to pride always is serving. It is sometimes hard to bite my tongue and just serve haha but it is always the best outcome.

Our investigators are doing just great! We are going to have another baptism this weekend!! His name is Abraham. He is doing awesome with all the things we have committed him with. I can testify of the importance of goals in our lives. As a missionary, we always center our lessons around the compromisos (commitments) that we are going to leave with the investigators. For example, we always ask the question, "What do we want from this visit?" "What do we want the investigators to do from this visit?" And then we plan from there. It is so effective when we plan this way because at times it is easy to just give a lesson. But I feel like we are really teaching people instead of lessons. We can feel a difference in our planning session now. The spirit truly directs us and it is quite clear what we are supposed to teach that day with that person. This was the case with Abraham. He wasn't keeping his compromisos (commitments) and we were thinking about dropping him but we started little with reading just a verse a day. And from there his conversion process started. And this week he is getting baptized!! Man how beautiful the spirit is when someone is willing to listen and submit him or herself to the promptings of the spirit.

We had an activity from la obra misional (missionary work) this Saturday! We planned to have a presentation in a park near the church of the plan of salvation. it was kind of awfully planned haha because all of Friday we were preparing with our mission leader to get all the things done. I felt like I was in high school again! Scrambling to do everything last minute! ha But it was a great success. How beautiful it really was to explain the plan of salvation to those who didn't know. It was so awesome because the people would just go on a question rant and ask us "why" and I love that this gospel can answer every question!!! The true gospel has no secrets. I love how Heavenly Father wants us to ask questions because He wants us to know more and more !! It was funny because the members of the ward were acting as us as to find and invite people to come to the presentation. They were SO SO SO uncomfortable at the beginning, but by the end they were so excited!! They got bit by the missionary bug!

This work is true. At times it is hard but like Elder Holland said "salvation is not a cheap experience!" I love you all! Keep at it. We are in the 4th quarter! Give it all you got!

Elder Reynolds