October 28, 2015
First of all, I am not longer sick. It passed by quickly.
Also, thank you all for the birthday wishes! And for the
package.
Something really cool happened this week. The mission did a
family history activity for the recent converts. There is a member here in San
Salvador that has a call center. Because it has a ton of computers, he offered
it to the church for a night so that all of the recent converts could get
together and do family history. It was just for members, missionaries weren´t
going to go, but I went with the assistants to help out because I know family
history.
So the activity is starting, and we´re standing by the door
listening to a small presentation, and in walks M, one of the
people who got baptized when I was in Nueva Concepcion! Wow! I was so happy to
see her. She hadn´t seen me yet so I tapped her shoulder. She instantly burst
into tears when she saw me. She was so happy. Also from La Nueva was a man
called J. he was one of my investigators and now he´s been baptized,
along with his wife, R.
M told me that the branch is doing well. That L and N are still active. Along with I. And R. Although she
did tell me that R´s health is deteriorating. She told me that they´ve set
the goal to be sealed as a family. But they haven't gone to the temple yet, not
even to do baptisms.
I was able to help M look for names. We found two, a
male and a female. One for here and one for R. Now they´re going to go to
the temple. And they want to go as soon as possible.
That night I felt a bit of how it must feel in the celestial
kingdom. I was so happy. I felt so much joy. I felt so blessed. I can´t even
adequately express it. "And if it so be that you should labor all your
days in crying repentance unto this people, and bring, save it be one soul unto
me, how great shall be your joy with him in the kingdom of my Father!"
(D&C 18:15). I felt that joy.
As a side note, last Sunday we visited a family in our ward
that we didn´t know. There´s lot´s of families like that because we´re all new.
It´s a very active family. They were so happy that we visited them. They said
that the missionaries hadn´t visited them in years. They in turn gave us four
things:
1. An opportunity to serve them (they need help moving or
something next week). Yes!
2. Offered to help us with some visits on Wednesday. Yes!!
3. Commited to share the gospel with some friends they had
in mind. Yes!!!
3. Said they´ll make us lazagna next Sunday for lunch.
Yay!!!!
These are the kind of things that make us happy as
missionaries.
I love you all!
Elder Hilton
