She felt the same peace in the temple

Sept 28, 2015

Hello there Familia!

This week sure has been magnificent. This work just brings so much joy! Last week I remember talking about how my personal testimony of the Book of Mormon has grown, but this week, I got to see the power of the Book of Mormon in other people's lives. It's amazing how that works, isn't it? 

We are still working with Delia. She is hesitant to commit to being baptized, but her 16 year old

daughter has committed to a date and we really excited for her. She has been getting up every day to go to seminary and the whole family is actively participating in the church activities and programs. Well Delia has really started to read the Book of Mormon diligently and it shows! She is more receptive and more excited to learn every time. 

We had another interesting experience with the Book of Mormon with Amparo. I'm not sure if I've told you guys about her yet, but we found her in a really amazing way and everything was going really well until she visited another church and decided to go there. We decided to read the Book of Mormon with her. I was hoping it would testify to her of the restoration. We read Alma 36. After we finished she said that no passage of scripture had ever impacted her as much as that. It was a really spiritual experience. It didn't exactly end up how we wanted to, but it was just one more testimony for me of the power of the Book of Mormon. It brought the spirit so strongly, but I guess it is still up to each one of us and our agency.

Oh yeah one more: we were teaching the familia Mar, just an amazing family in the ward. We asked them about what they were learning in the Book of Mormon and the both responded so profoundly, but i loved Hermano Mar's response. he said that as he was reading 1 Nefi again, he realized just how "justified" Laman and Lemuel were in their murmuring! They had to go through a lot, and they had to try again and again when it hadn't worked the first time. That's when i realized that i am not that different from them. A pretty humbling thought!

So this weekend Kimberly went to the temple in Hermosillo! she was asked to share her testimony in sacrament meeting and she said that she felt the same peace in the temple that she felt when she was
baptized! it was perfect because of all the investigators that were there! 

Speaking of the temple, we have invitations that we are supposed to give out for the open house. I have really enjoyed it. People get really interested when we invite them and then we tell them it's in
Tijuana and they either burst out laughing or just look at us strange. Kinda a far trip but I like inviting everyone. It definately sparks their interest!

We had interviews this week. Pretty good!

well I love you all so much,
Elder Smalley