Transfers!

Dear Family and Friends,

Wow, 70 degrees in Cedar during November is amazing!  And Mary and Jason´s house looks beautiful! The Lord just blesses us so much!

Saturday night was the night when we were to find out about transfers, and I was super, super nervous because I felt like that I would be leaving the area.  Elder Hansen and I worked hard this day, and then at 10 we received a phone call from the assistants.  We looked at each other and then answered it quickly.  Elder MacMullin called and asked if I was there and then informed me that I would be leaving my area and going to the Pampa Zone which is in Santa Cruz and that I would be a new Zone Leader with my companion Elder Harris.

This is my Companion Elder Harris. He is from Chicago and has about a year and a half in the mission.

I really was hoping to get leave Santa Cruz and go to Tarijia where it is a little colder, but the Lord knows I need to serve here.  But one tender mercy He has blessed us with is our house has AC!!!!! It is a miracle!!

Wow, that wasn't the phone call I was expecting!  Anyway, Elder Hansen’s new companion is Elder Moore.  Elder Torres is going to go to Plan 3000 and Elder Barazoto will be leaving Santa Cruz and going to Tarijia!  What adventures.

Sunday Morning Elder Torres and I gave our testimonies in Church, and this day was full of visiting our converts in the ward and many of the members.  This day we ate a lot of food.  It was so good!  I sure am going to miss this ward and am very grateful for all they have done for me, especially Familia Arteaga!  But here are some pictures:

Picture with Ronald.  He is getting ready for his mission!

Hot dogs with Familia Chavez

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hno. Julio - He is a recent convert a year ago.  He and his daughter are spiritual giants!

Familia Villegaz - This family loves the missionaries

This is Hna. Paola's son Leo.  He was baptized about 8 months ago and is helping his mom learn more about the gospel.  I am sure going to miss him.

Erlan! He is our ward mission leader who just returned from Colombia about a month ago.

Carlos Bryan - He just graduated from high school

Obispo Poma!

The Choque Family - Their whole family came in their car to our house to say goodbye.

Familia Arteaga - This family is a golden family, and I will miss them a lot

​Our new house - Also, we live behind our pension who is an elderly couple. Hna. Ulga cooks really good and it just makes you feel that we are living in our grandparents house!  Also our new ward is called the Barrio Lucero and it is in the 8th and 9th ring of the city where there is a lot of mud when it rains.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am sure excited for this area and time with my companion.  We are going have some miracles together.​

Thank you for your prayers and support,  I know this gospel is true, and I am so grateful for my wonderful family and that the Lord loves and blesses us so much as we obey his commandments!

Love,

Elder Matheson

P.S. This week we had a zone conference with Presidente, The focus of this conference was helping us teaching with power and authority and the key to doing this is the scriptures.  Presidente taught that the word of God is the best missionary and that after the mission, many missionaries go inactive because they stop holding onto the iron rod or the word of God  During my personal study I found these scriptures:

28 Yea, thus we see that the gate of heaven is open unto all, even to those who will believe on the name of Jesus Christ, who is the Son of God.

29 Yea, we see that whosoever will may lay hold upon the word of God, which is quick and powerful, which shall divide asunder all the cunning and the snares and the wiles of the devil, and lead the man of Christ in a strait and narrow course across that everlasting gulf of misery which is prepared to engulf the wicked—

30 And land their souls, yea, their immortal souls, at the right hand of God in the kingdom of heaven, to sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and with Jacob, and with all our holy fathers, to go no more out.

I know that this promise is true that if we lay hold upon the word of God, we will be able to make it through the temptations and trials of satan and land our souls with our families in the kingdom of Heaven.