Week 95

Hey guys! So as you all expect, the entire stake center went crazy yesterday when President Monson announced that there will be a 2nd temple in Lima. The 4th in Perú. It´s really exciting for all of us. We had a great week and I really enjoyed conference. We felt that it didn´t make sense to wait until the 23rd for Harumi´s baptism and we invited her to get baptized on Sunday after the conference! So Elder Alfaro had his first baptism yesterday. It was a really great baptismal service. Many ward members came. The first time we met Harumi she said that she could feel the spirit when people in the church bore their testimony and she wished that she could have a testimony like them. After her baptism she was given the opportunity to bare her testimony and I could tell that she was really happy about her decision and that she has known the things she bore testimony about for a few months. She just needed help recognizing an answer and she herself needed to make the decision to be baptized. She was so happy after coming out of the water. Elder Alfaro was nervous but he did a great job.

On Wednesday of this week I felt the impression to write a talk about the phrase "retain in remembrance" used by alma the younger in Alma 5. So I did and it´s about 6 pages long. I didn´t know why I wrote it, but I was happy that I did because I learned a lot about how remembrance is used in the scriptures. Then during the Sunday afternoon session Elder Gong gave his talk on exactly that, and it made me so happy because I was able to get even more out of his talk, and many other talks, because of the talk I had prepared. I think one of my favorite moments of the conference was after Elder Kearon gave his talk about refugees when President Uchtdorf stood up to announce the following speakers and he was crying. I got a lot out of the conference, and I feel like I have more energy and desires to take advantage of my time left on the mission. 

I hope you all have a great spring break!

 Why Lima needs TWO Temples!!!!

Glory to God on the (second) highest