Working hard and baptisms

Hello everybody who reads this little update on my mission!

 September 24, 2012

Things have been going well this week. The past couple of weeks we have been getting more than 20 lessons, which is great because more people are coming unto Christ. Elder Guzman and I are working well together. We have fun and work hard. He is probably the companion most willing to work that I have had. We have two baptisms coming up this week: the first is Nilcer Figueroa from Honduras. She came to Provo about a month ago to learn English at Nomen Global, a small English school here, and said she noticed a huge difference from Honduras and really felt something special here. She has progressed amazingly the past month and will be baptized on the 29th! Second is Daniela. She got married two weeks ago to her boyfriend, who is a less-active member coming back to church. They both seem ready to change their lives, so it will be great for both of them. She is also getting baptized on Saturday. The Temple Dedication was great. We went to the Edgemont South Stake center because it is closest to our house, and when I saw the doors to the baptismal font I remembered that I had been baptized there! I am excited for this week because we will have Elder Koelliker from the First Quorum of the Seventy in the mission doing zone conferences with us. It will be especially cool because the zone leaders will have a zone leader council with him that will be more personal. I am sure that I will learn a lot. Other than that, not much is going on. I hope that everyone is doing great wherever they are and with whatever they are doing!

Proverbs 3:27

October 1, 2012

This week has been good. We have been teaching a lot more lessons, but still need more work. I especially love to teach Genaro Inoa, a 72-year-old Dominican man who is so excited about the gospel and for his baptism even though he can't remember things very well because of a stroke he had 3 years ago. I know that he is excited because of what he feels in his heart, which is where we can come to know for ourselves that something is true. We learned from Elder Koelliker about D&C chapter 4. It talkes about serving with all of your heart might, mind and strength. We start out with putting our heart in the right place, and then our mind will follow and then we will work with our might and strength, but if we don't become humble, pure in heart and receive a witness in our hearts we will never be able to channel the potential that our mind has or that our body and spirit have to do good in this world. When our heart first submits itself to God's will, then those elements will align and we can truly serve in the best way.



Daniela's baptism



We just got a call this morning that we will have a missionary waiting on his visa to go to Spain with us for a while, so we'll see who it is when we pick him up at 3:30!

I hope that everything is going great for everyone! Have a wonderful week!

Love,
Elder Getts



Nilcer's baptism