Week 78 -- April 12, 2021

6 Months Left!! 



Hello hello hello!!!


This week has FLOWN by!!! It's been really really good!! Something crazy about today is that it means I only have 6 months left! That is SO CRAZY! Time goes by super fast here, but so much happens, I don't understand it!😅

I'll just share a really cool miracle we have been able to see! Last week I was texting a lot of people, trying to meet everyone here in my new area, and I came  across a lot of people that actually responded and had some really good conversations with them! I was talking to one of them who I didn't even know if she was a member or not, but she was saying that she needed help painting a room. We went over and ended up painting this whole bedroom for her! Turns out that she's a member, she was baptized in Venezuela and she used to be super super active and was very proud to tell us that she had been part of the reason in bringing over 100 people into the church! We could tell that she has so much light in her! The interesting thing about her is that she still believes in everything in the gospel, she knows everything is true, but she lives in a lot of fear because she said a lot of, let's say, "para normal experiences" that have given her a lot of fear. She feels like when she is more on God's path that's when satab attacks her more. So she's had too much fear to continue.😬 But anyways we met with her again on Saturday and she invited us over to eat and she had invited a bunch of her family as well. 🤩 None of them are members and we met with them and they all had interest in the gospel and all promised to come to church this next week and so we are really excited!! She, for the first time in I don't know how many years, came to church this last week so that was really awesome! 

God is so good and this has been evidence to me of what I really learned from General conference. It doesn't matter how far gone you are, or what you may have done in your life, or who you are or anything! It doesn't matter, God Loves You!!!!!! His hand is always outstretched to us and is always ready to help us and as we show Him just a spark of faith, miracles can happen! If you've lost some of the spark of the gospel, thinks about a way you can serve someone, as you do that, your faith will naturally grow! That's what happens, "When [we] are in the service of [our] fellow beings, [we] are only in the service of [our] God!

God is good! I love you all! I love Spain!

-Élder Boden









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