This week, our recent convert L--- got his temple recommend interview to do baptisms for the dead!  He passed, so he is going with the ward this Saturday to do baptisms! We have been working with another member who is really into geneology, and this week he is going to help him search his family history and he is going to be able to take his own family names to the temple!  We are super excited.  That was part of our zone goals for this transfer as well.

One cool miracle for the week, on Thursday night as we were planning for Friday, we didn’t have any set appointments, and I couldn’t decide what I should study for in my personal study the next day. As we finished up our planning, I just randomly wrote a letter G in my planner, and then for no reason at all I wrote the name Gabriel in the little box for my personal study topic. In the morning, I decided to study Jesus Christ in the Topical Guide.  Anyway, we went through our day on Friday, and everything went normally and then we went out for dinner with a member named O---. He took us to a little taco truck to eat some tacos (delicious). After we ordered and were eating, the member struck up a conversation with the owner of the taco truck and introduced us as missionaries that have changed his life.  The guy in the taco truck said that that he had just commented to his wife (who was making the tacos) that he could feel something about us "muchachos" when we ordered our food.  We didn’t even have the chance to speak because O--- just jumped right in and bore testimony of how that was the Holy Spirit testifying that the work we are doing is true.  He invited him to church and to start meeting with us and everything.  It was pretty exciting, and the man accepted the invitation. I then took the opportunity to bear my testimony of Jesus Christ.  As we were leaving, I asked his name. It was Gabriel, the same name I randomly wrote in the study box of my planner the night before.  Now I know that I studied about Jesus Christ in the topical guide that day, so I could share my testimony with Gabriel.

I finished the Book of Mormon again this last week - in Spanish- so that was awesome.  Afterward, I prayed in Spanish and got an answer that it was true yet again. I love how the Holy Ghost will ALWAYS testify of truth. I know that Moroni's promise is true.  We can get an answer if we ask in faith, with real intent, and it doesn’t matter how many times we have previously asked before, we can always get a confirmation of the truth! :)

We have been teaching the members of our ward the principle of FOLLOWING UP from Preach My Gospel in our dinner messages and challenging them to think about all the invitations or gospel conversations they have had throughout the last several years, and follow up with all those people and re-invite them! We have had a really good response from the members and they all accept to do it!

Love,

Elder Parrish