ELDER JONATHAN TRACY'S BOLIVIAN MISSION BLOG: WEEK 51: WATER FIGHTS, FIRE, AND PERFECT PARKING

Hey everyone.

This is Elder Tracy with the weekly update from Misón Santa Puej, or Santa Cruz.

We have a baptism for this week. Daniel Chacon has his interview with President Willard, and he will be baptized in this next week. He is reading the Book of Mormon everyday. When he isn't working, he reads. He is up to like Mosiah right now. He is going faster than I am right now.

We have been teaching our Pensionista. Her name is Ana de Viaña. Her husband is a less active member. We invited her to be baptized in a lesson we had. And she said that she wants someone she knows to baptize her. That's when her Husband, Andy, stands up and says "I am going to baptize her". That lesson was the most powerful that I have had in my whole mission. I know that The Lord smiles on every single one of his missionaries!

And we threw water on our members that don't read their Books of Mormon. We filled buckets up with Water. and they were soaked. It was pretty fun!!!

Scripture of the Week.

Alma 12:31-33

Wherefore, he gave commandments unto men, they having first transgressed the first commandments as to things which were temporal, and becoming as gods, knowing good from evil, placing themselves in a state to act, or being placed in a state to act according to their wills and pleasures, whether to do evil or to do good --

There fore God gave unto them commandments, after having made known unto them the plan of redemption, that they should not do evil, the penalty thereof being a second death, which was an everlasting death as to things pertaining unto righteousness; for on such the plan of redemption could have no power, for the works of justice could not be destroyed,

according to the supreme goodness of God.

But God did call on men, in the name of his Son, (this being the plan of redemption which was laid) saying: If ye will repent, and harden not your hearts, then will I have mercy upon you, through mine Only Begotten Son.

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