Doctrine and Covenants 10:5---We can use prayer to strengthen us against the temptations of the Devil.

This week the most exciting thing that happened was what's going on with Rosalia. We had another lesson with her. She had lots of questions. among them were found some like, if we get baptized what's going to happen to our son being in a catholic school? and also I don't know if I can do it because I couldn't imagine being away from my son for so long like you are from your parents. But she also had some doubts about single mothers in the church and she was chatting with someone on mormon.org and reading everything for and against. We are going to really focus on helping her pray to know.

so that was exciting. Also we are working hard on teaching some other people. They all have their own obstacles and doubts but we are trying hard to help them all. one lady we are teaching named Alejandra is cousin to a member who told us they invite her all the time to church we are going to have a lesson with her tomorrow and I'll have to let you know how that goes.

We also have been working on finding and there are lots of people here that are a lot more closed off than in other places. but we keep working hard and we find some success.

also we made chocolate chip cookies the other day. it didn't work out perfect and we used azucar negra instead of brown sugar but it worked out okay.

Anyway this week was good and we are going to keep working hard here. Remeber that prayer is always available.

Doctrine and Covenants 10:5 Pray always, that you may come off conqueror; yea, that you may conquer Satan, and that you may escape the hands of the servants of Satan that do uphold his work.

We can use prayer to strengthen us against the temptations of the Devil.

Elder Dallin Skouson

Divisions transfers and more---When we have diligence we can overcome our obstacles and find answers to our prayers.

This week started out about normal but we had some interesting things happen. we had transferes and one of the elders staying with us left. his companion just finished training and is waiting to get his companion.

probably the most interesting thing that happened this week was when we did divisions with one of the members. Elder Butler and the other Elder that's waiting on his companion went out to work in the other area and I stayed here and worked with a member that's a little timid. We had no success for the first 2 and a half hours or so. we contacted and got a lot of no and I'm not interested answers. we also had some appointments fall through.

We were at a point where I was a little bit sad and just frustrated I thought why why today when this member is here and I really want him to have a good experience. So I decided to go talk to everyone. we talked to all the people we saw outside on the way to our plan b and we found a man named sandro.

He was very interested he asked us what the Gospel is. He asked us why there are so many churches and he expressed how good he felt as he heard the answers testified to his heart by the spirit. We explained how the Church was restored. It was a super awesome lesson and Sandro was literally on the edge of his seat.

We then got to go to another appointment and she was there. Rosalia had read the pamphlet we left and knew the entire thing forwards and back. her husband said I've seen that book and always wanted to read it. we gave them a Copy and they were excited to see what is inside.

When we have diligence we can overcome our obstacles and find answers to our prayers. We can complete so much more when we are willing to work to accomplish what we have been sent to this earth to accomplish.

Love,

Elder Dallin Skouson

Rain!!!!

This week was a good one.

We did divisions with our zone leaders and that was a fun experience. We got to travel from 930 at night to 130 in the morning 2 nights in a row. but we made it and we are feeling recuperated on sleep now. the day we did divisions Elder Butler said it rained in the zone leader's area. and it rained on the ride home (it only got a litlte bit inside the bus on my knee. and then the next 2 days it rained in our area. just a constant slow misty type of rain. I actually wore my full winter coat and it's supposed to be spring time.

Divisions were fun but it was weird being with Elder Sipple. it is his last transfer in the mission. he was a little bit 'trunky' but not too bad. we showed up to try to help the city with our service project. And they still don't have materials. So we gave the guy in charge our number and are still waiting to hear back.

We have been working with some good people in our area recently.

Oscar went to work out on a farm this week and we didn't get to see him much we taught him about fasting and he said he wanted to apply that in his life to be able to stop smoking. we are doing all we can and we just hope that he does his part of the work to be able to stop.

We also are working with a man named Ramon. he is a good man but is very sad. one difference between him and most other really sad single men I have met on my mission is that he is actually willing to read and to do stuff. He has been reading a little bit in the Book of Mormon and is seeing a difference. He also lives in an old building that used to be used for the train. he said the city gave it to him and that he doesn't live under a bridge because there are no bridges close by.

We are working as well with a man named Coqui he works taking the fabric off of couches and putting new material on them. (the word that describes that just isn't there in my mind right now)

We have been very blessed to be able to find the people that need this message and we are working hard with them to help them come to Christ.

I have been thinking a lot about why it's important to have the true church in our lives as well. many tell us here that they believe that all the churches are the same. We know and the should know though What Christ says on both continents during his personal ministry.

3rd Nefi 14:

13 Enter ye in at the strait gate; for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, which leadeth to destruction, and many there be who go in thereat;

 14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

We need to find that way and that gate. and we need to enter it. We can all start with baptism at the gate and the way, if we follow it, leads even to exaltation. I think it's worth changing our lives over.

Love,

Elder Dallin Skouson

We also made root beer floats with some root beer flavoring that one of the elders here has!!!!!!

I could feel it even though it's my second language.

Today we got a bunch of personal letters from our boy.  Let's just say.  Paycheck!!  He didn't want these in the blog.  :) We love him and are so grateful for all the growth we see happening to him while he's faithfully serving a mission.  So, our blog entry for today is a bit short.  

We also went and talked to the mayor to see how we could do some sort of service project for the city. we are going to go see this week but we are going to maybe be helping to rebuild a house for a woman who's house is falling apart. so that will be exciting. also the mayor is very personable. I could feel it even though it's my second language.

Elder Dallin Skouson