April 4th

Saludos de la Republica, everything here is doing well and i hope that all is well in the states. Conference this week was great it is always a great spiritual experience to here from the leaders of the church. Try to apply what they said to our lives. They receive revalation for us and we need to listen to what they say and really try to pay attention to what they warned us of. They talked a lot about families and how important they are. The need to have families based on the gospel of Jesus Christ is important. It gives us the direction we need and help in the hard times. We need to have an eternal look on life and try to make the decisions that are going to be best for our eternal salvation and not look at just the moment. We are so blessed to have the knowledge that we have. We also need to share it with all that we know and just mention how the gospel has blessed our lives.

 

We have been teaching a lot of people and not a lot are progressing very fast but we have some great investigators. One investigator Gabriel he is american but both his parents are dominicans and he lives with his mom in the D.R. now. He went to 3 sessions of conference which is way more then the members do. He enjoyed all of them and could really feel the spirit. The problem is that he is 17 and in this mission if they are not 18 then they need to live a member or be baptized with a family member. So we have been teaching his mom too but she is sick and cant really go to church. She is interested too though. so we will keep working with them and hope that we can get her to church.

 

Wendi is still progressing and he really enjoyed conference too. His son wants to be baptized with him but since the mom is way catholic and he is already been baptized in the catholic church it might be hard.

 

We found a lot of new investigators this week and have been working hard on getting them progressing. People here have a desire to hear of the gospel but sometimes just dont know how important it is. There are churches on every block here so some people are really attached to their churchs and are blinded from the truth.

 

Well i hope all is well with everyone. you are all in my prayers. Love you all

 

con amor

 

Elder Holmes