Week # 88 Que Calor!‏

Well hello family and friends, this week was just a fantastic week! I felt as if this week was one of the best weeks that I have had in a long time. We have been helping a family to get ready to be baptized this coming Friday but as we teach them the father just kept saying that he was not ready yet and he continued to have problems with stopping smoking. So all week long we have visited them and really tried to pray and do everything that we could do for them to help them but the father said that he was not going to be ready soon and that he wanted his family to be baptized alone and he would do it when he felt that he needed to. So we were bumped a little but we decided that we would not stop praying for him and working for the soonest possible. Well on Sunday we had the mission president here and the whole day was just so full of the spirit, after church we went and ate lunch with the family and the father wanted to see the Joseph Smith movie so we put it in and yet another great spiritual experience. Well we finish and we start to leave and while no one is watching he pulls my companion aside and tells us that he has several days of not smoking and that he wants to be baptized with his family this Saturday!!! He said that he knows that he has to do it now and not later. So since he wants it to be a secret we could not tell anyone and it was just such great news that it was driving me insane to keep it to me alone until now!!!! 

So a wonderful week was ended by a trip to one of the beautiful beaches here in the country. the district president took all of the missionaries to the beach today and so that was really beautiful! 

Well this week was so full of great experiences and I just love the mission! I love you all and I have a testimony that this gospel brings us true joy and peace. As Christ said to his disciples this same week more than 2000 years ago in  Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I  unto you. Let not your heart betroubled, neither let it be afraid.  

He does not give us the peace as the world does with fancy gadgets and all of the worldly items, but he gives us peace as we hold to the iron rod and strive to overcome the shame of the world. we cannot live as if we are of the world! So this week as we go from work, school and all of the other activities that we do please remember that the true joy and peace of our lives will only come as we live and obey the commandments of the lord and the counsels of his chosen apostles. 

I love you All!!! 

Elder Ferrin

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