This past week has truly been phenomenal for so many reasons and to top everything off, in honor of the holy week (la semana santa) that we have here in Mexico, a lot of the really special foods have been coming out! But one of my favorite things that has happened, is that we have been receiving too many tamales throughout the week that I strangely almost don´t feel like eating them sometimes, but then I go ahead and eat them anyways!
And to help us out even more, today we had our Zone Activity playing soccer for 3 hours in 90+ Degree Weather, and to finish it off we all prepaid for tamales but the Zone Leaders bought way too many, and it was just my luck to leave with 30+ extra tamales to eat throughout the week, haha!
Anyway, General Conference was incredibly powerful and we had such a wonderful experience with the Hermana Cecilia and Gerardo her son that are going to be baptized this Wednesday! She tragically lost her oldest daughter a couple of years ago and ever since we have taught about the temples and eternal families she has had the desires to do the ordinance work for her daughter so badly, and when President Nelson tenderly shared his experiences with his daughter, Wendy, in her final moments of mortality, she broke down crying. She said that she knows that Russell M. Nelson is a prophet of God and that nothing is going to stop her from returning to live with her Daughter and say all the things that she always wished to say to her! It was such a beautiful moment and I can truly testify of these simple truths! We are part of the living Church of Christ that has been restored and is being restored through just men who have been called to direct the earth in these last days!
I can testify with all the faith that I currently possess that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, that he wishes for us to be healed by him, and as many of the apostles and prophets shared, we need to be more morally clean than we currently are, if we wish to be true disciples of Christ, always changing to become more like him!
I truly love these simple principles and that the Book of Mormon contains the fulness of the gospel of Christ! It can heal us of spiritual and emotional wounds, and when part of God´s will, it can also cause a physical healing within us!
I love you all, and I just wanted to close by sharing that I love you Guys, I will send a more full email, but we have a ton of work, and make sure to support the missionaries by living the gospel in every moment, and taking a few seconds to share your beliefs with the people are looking for the truth and don´t know where to find it, and I promise you will be blessed just to give the invitation to your friends, family members, and coworkers to learn about the gospel from your local missionaries!
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| Uncle John McCune was sustained as a General Authority Seventy at April 2019 General Conference |
I love you all!
I pray you can study the wonderful talks of this week!
Sorry for no pics!
Elder Raven
