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| Keeping a lid on the dome! |
Chillin in Lakeville... windchill that is!
Wow, a lot has happened this week. So I'll jump right
into it!
On Wednesday, we had exchanges with our zone leaders! I
had the opportunity to jump into some English work with Elder Buhler, it was
great! I got to meet a lot of new people and see the difference in culture and
personality between Americans and Hispanics. I feel so blessed to interact with
both Americans and humble people from all over Central and South America!
Minnesota is a huge melting pot and it's such an awesome experience to serve
the people here. I'm also so grateful to not only have the luxuries of this
great country but to also learn a new language!
Throughout the week, we invited a bunch of our
investigators to come to our Spanish Branch Christmas Party. Since our branch
doesn't have many people, we rarely have any activities together outside of
church on Sunday. So, we were pumped for this perfect opportunity to get our
investigators to the church and help them meet some of the members. This was
our chance to hopefully finally get an investigator to church! Well… so we
thought. Our plans were stopped in their tracks, on Saturday night through
Sunday afternoon the temperature dropped to -25 degrees with wind chill at -40!
So, the branch president made the decision to cancel not only the Christmas
party but all church meetings on Sunday as well. We thought for sure we would
get an answer to our prayers and have more investigators attend church. That's
Minnesota weather for ya! But hey, we still have our heads high and are excited
to invite people to church on Christmas Day! I'm looking forward for this next
week😊
Even though it's bone-chilling cold, there's no better way
to warm up than feeling the warmth of the Holy Ghost in your heart! We recently
had a wonderful first lesson that was filled with the Spirit! A while back when
we found the two new investigators from El Salvador, we showed both of them the
Christmas initiative video. While we were showing the video to one of the
Salvadorians named Jaime, another guy walking in the background saw us and came
up and introduced himself.
His name is Salvador, and we went back to teach Jaime but
he wasn't home so we ended up teaching Salvador. Turns out, he moved here from
El Salvador 10 years ago to work and support his family, and while he was back
home he was briefly taught by the missionaries there! He was excited to
reconnect with the missionaries and we had a wonderful lesson on prayer and the
Book of Mormon. It was such a cool miracle to find him, and it was because of
the amazing #LightTheWorld video that we connected with him! We are greatly
blessed to have the technology we have in these days to access so many spiritually
uplifting material in a matter of seconds!
This weekend has definitely been a tough one, especially
for our zone here in Lakeville. One of the elders in our zone received word on
Saturday night that his father only has two weeks left to live. We decided to
have a zone wide fast for him, as he prayed for direction on whether he should
stay on his mission or spend time with his dad the last few weeks of his life.
On Sunday he made the decision to go home. We are sad to see him go and will
miss him a lot. Even though It hasn't been the best week this week, I'm way
excited for next week!
It's such a blessing to represent the Lord and testify of
the life of Jesus Christ during this Christmas season. I hope you go into this
final week until Christmas with the true meaning of Christmas in your hearts! I
know the Christ lives. He is our savior and redeemer. He is my rock and my
salvation. Through the redeeming and enabling powers of his atonement, we can
be free from sin and learn become more like Him.
I love this gospel, I know it's true. The same authority
that Christ had is restored on this earth today. I love being a representative
of Jesus Christ and a full time missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints! The church is true!! I love you guys!
¡Feliz Navidad mis amigos!
Elder Bolinder
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| Feliz Navidad! |
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| Elder Bolinder and Elder Buhler |
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