This week has been a great week. training is awesome. but My comp knows more than me so he is teaching me! Hes a great missionary and came ready to work. We were talking to alot of people this week its nice to talk to people about the gospel i always feel happy just talking about the gospel with others, Lots of people are nice and accept the teaching well, the trick in the mission field is helping the people keep thier commitments, that is the real goal so they grow in faith, repent be baptized and recieve the gift of the Holy Ghost, and make it to the temple, and keep going, enduring to the end. I was just reciently informed that one of my converts named Hector Eduardo Lobos from Jose C Paz died on the 26th of march. I was told that during his time in the Hospital he and his wife read the Book of Mormon together! I was really sad at first and am sad but also i know that he had his priorities straight with God, I know like President Dieter F Uchtdorf said that God loves everyone of us perfectly fully and eternally. I know that God recieved this man with lots of joy and love, and that he is now in the rest of the lord. This man had to go through alot to come unto Christ. Before he didnt want anything with the missionaries, for alot of time, his wife was a member already before they were married and the kids were baptized the last year i think, but he had never wanted it and said that he was even bothered when the missionaries would say to him, " we love you Brother Lobos" because he was like how do you say that with out knowing me? After he got sick with leukemia ( a blood cancer) and learned alot about what was really important and what God wanted for him. The Lord had to humble him and he recognized the things that were really important and was baptized immediately, he never missed a day of church unless he was in the hospital even the days when he fainted in church. He had a dream a The lord saving him from a endless pit of darkness. He became converted to the gospel truthfully, recieved the melquiesdec priesthood and was a great husband, father and member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Thanks to Jesus Christ and his Atoneing Sacrafice and sacred ordinances we can change the "HE WAS" a great....... to "HE IS" a great......
Even though life has its difficulties we need to recognize that there is a God that has a Perfect Full and Eternal Love for each and everyone of us. greater than our own and greater than we think. I will never doubt the truthfulness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I know that he lives and His Prophet is Thomas S Monson. The Lord through Joseph Smith Restored the Church in all its truthfullness, authority, and Sacred Salving Ordinaces. I Know families can be together for ever, that is part of Eternal Life. this isnt the end, i remember my last day in church in Jose C Paz Hermano Lobos wanted me to pass by in the night but i couldnt, we went to the despedida in san fernando, he started to cry and told me that if he didnt see me again here then hed see me up in heaven, he asked me Right? i assured him with teary eyes too that YES! I know hes in the rest of the Lord and that even though every sunday he went to church and suffered that i learned that he understood that its more important his spiritual state than his physical state, when he had control over it. God is real. and lives as well as his son Jesus Christ who atoned for all of us. In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
Elder Wikstrom.
The conversion comes line upon line; precept upon precept.
What a great Conference we had also=)
I Love the Prophet, his counselers, the 12 apostles and all the other General Authorities and I sustain them fully!