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!!!!!!