Easter

April 1, 2013

 HeY family! Love ya'll.

I hope everyone enjoyed their Easter sunday! It was a good day for me as well. Just taking some time and thinking about the Savior and my relationship. I sure am grateful for Him!

I was curious of how much you pay for your monthly house payment, here for a one bedroom old apartment its $1300.....I feel like that’s a ton?! How does that compare? haha

On Saturday we went to a baptism in Manassas for one of Elder Wilson's old people and there was also Elder Wloka, from Germany and in the Spanish program, and his family sent him a huge box of german chocolate for him to share!!! It was probably over $100 of chocolate! and it was really good hahah.

So our teaching with the "clan of 8" is going really good. They are all still interested. There is one lady who is a little more interested than the rest and she is one of the main people so we feel that if she is the first to get baptized they will follow, we taught them the word of wisdom (they all have problems with it) and they accepted to live it! The spirit was there so that helped! :) ha.

We had a cool experience with President Riggs this past week. One of our less actives, Diego, doesn't think you can live the gospel and be successful in life. He doesn't think it’s realistic haha. So we were thinking and President Riggs popped into our minds. So we called him and asked if he could meet with us. And he accepted! He shared some scriptures about money, and keeping the commandments and told him how literally everything we have isn't even ours'. It’s all God's so why not give all of "our substance to the poor" he then told some personal experiences that blew my mind of how much money her really has (I always knew he was obviously loaded but man...) he said that when they first got married they decided to always pay $20 for fast offering, and every so often they would double it!!! and now he said that he pays enough money that it could pay some one's mortgage...and he does that each month!! What a great example. I think I'll do that :) hahah.

The other day we were on our way over to an appointment but we got a call from an english member telling us that he has a hispanic friend who was over at their house who needs help and was super interested in learning the gospel! So we made an emergency turn to go over there haha. It was such a powerful lesson too! She was just at the bottoms of bottoms in life and is looking to God now for help! So humbled through different life's experiences. It was great! So we'll be working with her. She plans on moving back to Bolivia in a couple months!

I am sooooooo pumped for General Conference!! can't wait. I am so happy we have the chance to listen to God's will for all of us at this time, April 2013! Whether it’s God's voice or the voice of His servants, it is the same!

Last night for Easter we colored some eggs!!! It was fun. Reminded of all the years we all colored eggs together!!

A lot of the trees are blossoming!!! We are planning on going to the cherry festival next p-day!!!! who!!!! so beautiful! hahah can't wait!

The familia Dees made me some special gluten free blueberry muffins!!! They were sooo good. I honestly am shocked at how much of having celiac desease is a blessing! People have been so kind and I am so blessed to be able to see that love and Christlike charity!!

We were visiting a less active a 14 year old and he was telling us that he had a dream that an angel came to him and told him to start going to church and then kicked him out of bed and he woke up on the floor!!! hahah so cool. Since then he's been going hahah.

I got a letter from Sis Fessler! I recently was craving listening to motab their “consider the lilies” and she sent me that cd!!! i love it. It’s crazy because I was like ahhh man,.... I really want to listen to that song and Elder Wilson doesn’t have it and she sent it! What a blessing!!!!

We were tracting and this 50-60 year old guy answered and we did our spill and he said "oh...but barca is playing...."  then I asked him if barca is more important than Christ? haha pretty up front but the truth with him..he looked like ahh man you’re right...but then he's like but barca is playing and left... I was saddened to see that... people who don't have their priorities straight... it’s sad...

Remember how I told you about Andres and how solid he was....ahaha.... he had to get permission from his mom because he is a minor and she told him that he is not ready because she has a brother who is 46 and he "just finally got baptized" and it took him all those years etc...it was sad! He looked so sad so we are going to see his mom tonight to explain it to her...

Well I love you all soo much!! Let me know if there is anything I can do for ya'll besides praying for ya'll???

con mucho armor,

Elder Lifferth