I AM BACK

Honestly, hard week with our investigators, but I hope you guys had an amazing week!!

Today I want to focus on talking to you about Covenants.

I hear from people, oh I don't need the church because my relationship is personal with God, or oh we don't need religion, we just need to be good people and follow God.

How wrong they are.  This is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  And it is impossible to return to God or to apply the Atonement of Jesus Christ in our lives or to have peace in this life without the Church of Jesus Christ.

If you are not a member of the church, you cannot receive the covenants (or promises) with God, because only the first presidency and the apostles hold the keys for covenants with God and the eternal life in the world to come.

I beg of you all to realize the importance of these covenants (or promises) we make through the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  I love you all.

Make it a great week!!

Love,
Elder Traveller

In a letter sent home:

"With our investigators this week, not gonna lie it was a hard week.  We have this awesome investigator named Carlos, who we love.  He came to church for the first time last week, we didn't do as much as we should or talk to him as much as we should have, but it never occurred to us that this would happen...He came to church then left.  We went to go talk to him about his experience and he said that it was awful, he had a baptismal date set before but after going to church (I didn't understand this part in Spanish so my comp had to explain) he said he does not want to go back so he does not want to be baptized anymore.  Hard experience.  With Eliaquin we had a crazy meeting.  It was the second time we took him to talk to a member that had alcohol problems as well.  He is helping him for sure.  Eliaquin started shaking a ton and kind of crying then he like fell on the floor and I had to catch him....It was crazy.  I think he is having some serious withdrawals.  Josephina told us she was going to open her store then come to church so we went and helped her open her store then went to church and she never came. Sad.  So harder week for sure but this one will be better!!  We have an investigator named Jorge that is amazing but he does not live in our area he only works in our area so it is kind of an interesting situation.  Things are going to be great this week though!!

Tyler's most favorite drink...EVER!

Happy Valentine's Day Tyler!!