Dear Family!
How is everyone doing here on this beautiful Wednesday!? It´s been a great. We´ve been really really busy here in Xaxim! We have a baptism this weekend. His name is Davi, which is portuguese for David. He is nine years old. I was really impressed with him and he want to be obedient to God´s commandments. It was really neat. Yesterday, we were going over the baptismal questions with him and I got the greatest feeling when we asked him if he believed that God was our Eternal Father, Jesus Christ is His Son our Savior, and that Joseph Smith was a prophet. He answered yes to all the questions and it was a neat experience. It´s funny. His grandfather is not a member and when we went to his house grandfather came out and said "Os Mórmons!" hahaaha. It was really really funny. Talked to us for awhile about this short guy in the military he used to know. I reminded him of this guy because he said I was short for an American. Hahaha.
We also met these 2 girls. One is married and the other is about 20. We taught them the first lesson and they said they wanted to be baptized. I was really impressed with them as they asked about the authority to baptize people. We explained to them about the apostacy and about the restoration of God´s Holy priesthood. It was a really neat lesson.
We had a really really good district meeting on Monday. We talked about the Doctrine of Christ. Which is Faith, Repentance, Baptism, the Gift of the Holy Ghost, and Perseverance until the end. We also talked about the Army of God´s Church. The men on the front lines are the missionaries. And the big people that come in after the front lines are the members. The captains are the leaders of the church and our general is the prophet and of course our King is the King of Kings: Jesus Christ. So we need to prepare to serve Him the best we can and when people aren´t baptized or they go inactive, it´s because they don´have an understanding of the doctrine. When you understand the doctrine of an eternal family of course you will do anything and everything to be able to stay together forever. We have been asked by the Prophet to work a lot with inactive members and try to reactivate them. So that´s what we are doing a lot now.
I hope that you all are being missionaries as well. It would break my heart to know I was the only missionary in the family right now. I hope you guys are reading Preach My Gospel because it will help prepare you for missionary work. Helping the missionaries DOES NOT mean just feeding them dinner once a month. It´s being a missionary, giving references, helping reactivate families, doing your home and visiting teaching. I want to challange my family to read the entire Book of Mormon by the end of the year. I know with a surety that when you do this, you will be super blessed. I know it sounds hard, and that there is only 2 months left, but remember that hymn we sing in church "Sacrifice brings forth the blessings of Heaven."
I love you all so much.
DON´T STOP BELIEVING!!!!
Com Amor
-Elder Askins
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