Last Week In The Transfer

Dear Family and Friends,

Wow, that is so crazy that Morgan and Joe are back from their missions and that Macy got married! A lot of important things happen in 2 years!!

Tell dad Happy fathers day for me!

​Me and My son! Elder Barazoto is the best!

This is the last week of the transfer! Elder Stewart is the best! I sure am grateful we have gotten to serve together. In our whole 4 and half months together we have never gotten into a serious fight or argument. So that is quite an accomplishment because sometimes after weeks together with the same person it kind of wears on you but we are getting along great!

We both are nervous for transfers because we are from the same group and have the same time in the area so only the Lord and President knows who is going where!

This week was very eventful!

On Wednesday we had interviews with Presidente and then we practiced a musical number with Elder Barazoto /my son/, Elder Lefgren and Elder Martines. (Elder Ponce didn't want to sing but he was a judge to help us sound better) We were trying to include guitar, ukulele, and violin all together but it got too complicated so we just went to singing and Elder Stewart and I played the violin.

Then we went and hauled 4 mattresses to the house of Elder Pineda. The Elders from Bermejo were coming in the night to stay over for the conference because in the past they have had to wake up at 4 in the morning and take a tiny minivan to come to the conference. The road is apparently really rough with a lot of ups and downs and turns and the fitting all the elders in a trufy in the morning makes it a hard time to have an enjoyable conference, so that is why they came early.

After that, we picked up pouch and then went to work finally! In the night, we had exchanges with the assistants and Yosselin had her baptismal interview.

Thursday was the multi-zona! It was great! Presidente taught us about the doctrine of obedience! Obedience is a sign of conversion, but it is not between us and president or even the prophet but the Lord himself. Presidente testified to us that how we obey on our mission will be a foreshadow of our life after the mission. He invited all of us to repent and be more obedient so the Lord could continue blessing the mission and hastening his work through us! I know President is called of God and am so grateful to learn from this great man!

Conference, Elder Vidal! He is from Santiago Chile and is one of my best friends in our zone!

 Also, Hermana Rodriguez liked the musical number!

This week, I learned that Satan has power to tempt and discourage us! President also told us this, that in this life we will go through moments of suffering, but even in these moments, we must be obedient so the Lord can bless and deliver us.

Yosselin was all ready and excited for her baptism! Saturday came and we had the baptismal font and all the members invited and a cake ready and then she called us at 9:30 a.m. telling us that she didn't think she could be baptized. Some family members had told her that they didn't think she was ready for baptism and satan really discouraged her and she told us how she was so scared to be baptized because she is afraid to sin afterwards and a lot of other doubts came out so we canceled her baptism.

But this week we are going to try and help her see that she is ready and that the Lord has answered her prayers and that she should follow this commandment and be baptized. Please pray for her and for us that Yosselin can overcome her doubts and be baptized this week!

Also, we asked President for guidance about Marilin and he told us that the important thing is that she gets married for civil and then can be baptized and if her family wants them to be married in the catholic church it is alright.  She is a lot more excited. This week she had a karate tournament and sold shirts to get money for her marriage papers! Please pray for them.

Also if you can pray for Claudia, Sulma, Poal y Fernanda, Lucia y Jilberto, Alex y Margot!

This week, general conference magazines got here! I have been trying to study 5 to 10 minutes of a talk everyday! I know this is the Lord´s church. We have a prophet and 12 apostles called of God!

Love,

Elder Matheson