Elder Ovard Can Turn Pages!

FAMILIA,

 

Well here it is the moment everyones been waiting for!!!! haha ELDER OAKS!!!!!!!!!

It was amazing to say the least. After waking up at 5 in the morming and driving for an hour or so we made it up there and were ready to listen and be inspired by the words of a living apostle of god. It was such a great experience! But lets just start out by getting a good laugh out of the all of you... So LUCKY ELDER OVARD had the priviledge of being able to flip the pages for the pianist during the special musical number played for elder oaks... WAIT SAY WHAT???? Elder Ovard can't read music. WOW i was a trip. Elder Millett played the piano for this musical number and i didn't know how in the world to follow the song he was playing. It was abide with me but like a fast FAST paste mode. I was so so scared all week. We would go to church and practice and i just didn't know what to do. I literally almost searched somone else to do it. All it was, was 2 pages. I would have to turn them when the time was right but yet there would be an apostel of god watching and also close to 2 hundred missionaries.... YIKES!!!! I was soooo nervous. Like i didn't know what to do. 100 times worse than pitching in a championship or having to drive in the winning run with only one out remaining in the ball game. FLIPPING 2 PAGES for all those people was sooooo much more stressful!! BUT I DID IT!!!! Was I proud or what! Some people say i'm humble but lets just say after i successfully flipped those pages there was no no NO humility involved hahaha jk It was fun though!!!

 Elder Oaks is the MAN! I learned so much from him. He talked about the importance of a testimony and how that testimony is what shapes an investigators/New converts life in the church. Another thing i loved that he talked about was the importance of TEACHING AND BAPTIZING in order to get people to the temple. Sometimes as missionaries we forget about the temple part. We are just so focused on our purpose which is to baptize that the temple part kinda goes unnoticed. Well Elder Oaks helped us notice it. Our purpose as missionaries is to GET PEOPLE TO THE TEMPLE.... and in order to do that you have to be BAPTIZED!!! So it was really an eye opener for us as missionaries but something that we desperately needed to hear. It was awesome!

 

Also guess what!!!! remember Novelty? Way back when?? So this passed week we were going to see him but at the same time our goal and game plan was to set his wife.. Teresa with a baptism date! So we truly didn't know how to go about it. We've tried setting teresa with a baptism date for months now. She goes to church every sunday with novelty and their daughter. They are basically all members. Like their so amazing we will have investigators at church and i'll say ok well give us a few minutes and we will take you to class... THEN next thing i know teresa runs up grabs their hand and says i will take them for you elders no worries! haha we are like what??? why can't the members be like that haha Novelty and Teresa are the best i love them so much. So back to this lesson.. We go in there and she begins talking about church on sunday and how in class they talked about the family. She loves the family. They talked about more or less the plan of salvation and how after this life we will be able to live with our families for eternity. She loved it. She just was so happy in the lesson, we could tell. So that was basically going to be our spring board for the lesson we were going to teach. We were going to bring up that spirit she felt in class and then follow the spirit to know how to set her with a date. Well as we talked with her about this lesson on sunday she said oh elders guess what. After that lesson on sunday i came home and was feeled with the spirit. I was happy. I felt peaceful. It was a good day. Well then come to find out elders that night my son got in a Car accident. Both air bags went off and he totalled his car. BUT guess what... He walked out of that accident with just a lil scratch on his cheek. He was fine perfectly fine. Then she asked, Elders i feel grateful and happy for god watching over and protecting my family... HOW CAN I GIVE BACK TO HIM? WHAT CAN I DO TO SHOW HIM THANKS? hahaha immediately the light bulb clicked in my head. I looked at her and said Teresa God loves you. He loves your family. The one thing that You can do and that GOD WANTS you to do is to follow that example he put before you and to be baptized!!!!!!!!!! Right as i said that she said okay.... Your right i need to do that, its time. So she accepted a date for this saturday. The 26th of Oct!!! I'm so so so excited for her and i can't believe how great god is for giving me this opportunity to watch her walk into that baptismal font and make this covenant with god!! It's going to be awesome!! Not only that though God set everything up! He performed every little miracle there was to help Teresa receive this anwser about baptism!! I love God I love Teresa I love the MISSION FIELD. I love you all family and i look forward to writing you next week about this amazing baptism!

 

Also Margarita... She lives with her brother and sista in law. We have been working a lot with them and the've been to church 3 times now. Love it everytime and they wanted me to tell YOU my parents thanks for everything. They said you guys are like the best parents in the world because i am in the right path. The path in which god has put before us to be happy. So thank you mom and dad!!! Your helping me for 18 years is going to help a few investigators now be baptized. Through examples, the gospel, prayer and the spirit!!

 

Love you all and have an amazing week! Keep doing work on the mountain!! Peace!! Until next week my loved ones!

 

Elder Ovard