Stay In the Boat and Hold On!

(A/N: HOLY COW!!! AN ACTUAL UPDATE ON A MONDAY?!?!?! Ha ha! Yeah, it's Alejandra again, with an update from my sister on the mission field. Hope you guys had an awesome Monday and an even greater week! :D )

This week has been great! Sister Simonsen and I have been working so well together. We have increased our number of lessons and we've improved in almost everything overall from last week! So that was really exciting! :)

This week we have spent a lot of time teaching Jesus! He's getting baptized on Sunday! :D I'm so excited for him! Ever since I have gotten here to the Echo ward, he has been coming to church almost every Sunday. It wasn't until about 2 months ago that we were told that he wasn't a member. We started going over to visit his girlfriend and started teaching him and he is just so receptive to the Spirit! He wants to keep learning more and he really is prepared! We also started teaching his family this week! His mom wants to learn more and committed herself to read the Book of Mormon! :) His little sister's also came to church and they are the cutest things ever! One of them is 8, she takes her Book of Mormon to school and the other one is 2 and she just like to say "Jeshush" and "That's Jeshush?" She's adorable!

This week we have the great opportunity to have Elder Ballard come speak to us missionaries but also to have him at our Stake Conference. In preparation of him coming, we've been trying to get the members REALLY excited of him coming to OUR stake, therefore we've been sharing his last talk in General Conference.

I really love Elder Ballard...I love all the apostles...But his talk is amazing! He talks about how we need to stay on the boat at all times, that we must have our life jackets on and that we need to hold on with both hands. We compares it to the church. We need to stay in the church at all times. Even when we think that we are doing fine. We need to read our scriptures, our scriptures are our life jackets and our scriptures will teach us what we have to do to stay on at all times!

I invite you all to read his talk! I know that He was called from God. I know that all the apostles are called from God. He knows exactly what we need to hear and He will give us the way to hear His words! I know that without living prophets and apostles we would be completely lost! I love this church and this gospel more than anything!

Thank you for all your support!

Love,

Hermana Ramos-Escobar