La Serena Semana 5‏

From:	Bryce Marvin (bryce.marvin@myldsmail.net) This sender is in your contact list.
Sent:	Mon 4/01/13 12:03 PM
To:	rosalie marvin (rosaliemarvin@hotmail.com)

I cannot belive how fast time is flying!!! My poor hijo is just growing up too fast and learning too much!! jaja We had a great week although we really need to have some big spiritual lessons this week and see some more progress from our investigators. They have some good potential, but we just need everything to get up and start rolling!! 

To start the week we talked about how we can crack down and do our best in all that we do. I read this week in my personal studies from the last conference about how Presidente Uchtdorf said "we must not settle for "an alright effort". We have been saved for these days, and we must be able to give the example to everyone. We should strive to do all things well. So we are wokring on doing our very best, getting all of our studies in and being very prepared for all of our lessons and for everything that we do. So that the spirit can help us take every step along the way and we are not only blindly following.

Sadly, sometimes, like Alma relates in chapter 8, the results dont reflect our efforts. Sometimes, we put in a lot and seem to come out short. Thats kinda how the week was. We were also able to do some service and we had a conference so we didnt have as much time to work, but still, we have room to get better. 

However, we are still pumping away and loving it! I love how even when its rough, the spirit can truly keep us up! Although, our reference that we received from a member, the girl that came to church last week loved church so much that she went home, told her family, and all her family wanted to hear about it. I am glad that we were able to make her experience so geat and now we passed the reference to coquimbo so they can teach her whole family! I heard a statement in our conference this week in a video  we saw there. It said "Experience is what you get when you dont achieve what you were hoping for." I also read in my studies that "failure is temporary. Success is a product of hard work." So we know we just have to stick at it. I dont know if anyone else has felt this way before, but I invite you all to read Alma 8 y 9. They are great chapters where we can see that "life aint always bautiful" at first. 

I did go on interchanges out to Vicuña with Elder Toapanta. We had a great time and they on the other hand have LOTS of people that they are visiting! Its great! We visited lots of people and they should be having quite a few baptims out there this month. And, for a nice confusion, I was confused for a mexican again! YES!!! jaja I love it when that happens! jaja  

So things are on the uphill, we are loking at having a few baptisms in the month of Abril, so thats what we just gotta go do! I hope that everyone is just as excited for conference as I am! I COULD SCREAM with excitement! jaja Its going to be awesome!!! I just know it!!  Loves to everyone!!! 

Elder Marvin =D