June 1, 2015

I can’t believe that Elle is getting baptized this week. My little cousin has grown up so fast!
Please tell her that I am proud of her and I love her.  That love needs to be sent to all of my Hawaiian family members yeah?
This week has been very good.
I just heard from my dad on the mission Elder Barker that he is getting married in November...Furthermore and he has asked me to be one of his groomsmen. That awesome! I don’t really know what job groomsmen have other than to be in all of the pictures and look good but that seems like a job that I can do haha
As far as the Mission work this week we are doing solid.
I had a mini cambio with a spanking new missionary from Utah this week.
His name is Elder Barson and he has about 5 weeks on the mission. It was so much fun being with a new missionary again. He can barely talk in Spanish but he has all the energy in the world to do it.
During the day he kept asking me questions like what the mission was like, what has been the best and hardest part of my mission, what was some advice that I could give to him...  and what not.
This has brought me to reflect a lot about what I have experienced on the mission and what I have internalized and applied into my life.
I have come to know the reality of God the father, His son Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost.
God is our loving heavenly father. We pray to him and he listens. He cares for each of us personally and worries about us. He is happy when we obey, and pours out blessings and opportunities when we are willing to receive them. He also feels pain when we choose the wrong, and allows us to take responsibility for our actions. He is the Father of our spirits and has provided us a plan to return to his presence, not as children however but as princes and princesses of his kingdom because that is our divine heritance.
Jesus Christ is our savior. Our mediator with our father. He has made it possible that we can return to the presence of God again. NO unclean thing can enter in the presence of God. And we can only become clean through Jesus Christ because he took upon him the sins pains and sicknesses of the world, suffered, died and took up his life again as an immortal being. He is the way the truth and the life.
"We do not know what lies ahead of us, we live in a world of uncertainty. Sometimes there will be times of great accomplishment, rejoicing, gladness and good living...sometimes disappointment confusion, sickness and all measures of sorrow. We just don’t know, but one thing we do know; like the polar star in the heavens, regardless of what the future holds there stands our redeemer. He is the rock of our Salvation, our comfort, the very focus of our faith" Gordon B Hinckley
 HE provides us the chance to change, to become better, to grow and to progress.
The Holy Spirit is our teacher our guide and the force of good that we feel when we obey the commandments.
The Spirit can guide us in times of trouble and confusion and when we are in the work of the Lord. The main calling that the Holy Ghost has is to testify the truth and the reality of the father and the Son.
As missionaries of the Lord we are called and given power and authority to testify of the restored gospel here upon the earth. We try to speak to others so they not only hear our voice but feel the voice of truth.
 That is only possible through direct revelation asked in a prayer of faith, given by the father through the Holy Ghost to those who have applied the atonement of Christ in their lives.
 It’s all connected.
The mission is great.
The Mestre family are progressing very well! We are now focusing on 3 of them, the mother and 2 of her kids.
We are encouraging them to pray and read as a family.
The basics are the most important.
ILL talk to you next week! Love you
Chau