The work's going good, always new investigators, just need to get them to progress now. We've been in a grind to get people put on date for baptism, but we've got some really promising candidates coming up soon, so I'll let you know how that all goes down.
The bikes are super fun! There are definitely disadvantages as well, especially since its getting rather cold here (only like 40 in the early morning and night) but we have so much fun on bikes and it helps us to talk to more people compared to being in a car.
So I used to be in a trio with Elders Loveridge and Rivas. But we are in transfer day today so Rivas is leaving and it's just me and Elder Loveridge that are going to run the area together. We are a pretty young companionship, combined we have 10 months in the mission which isn't a lot of experience, especially for a new language, but were going to figure it out. And we are going to have fun and work hard with it!
Spiritual thought of the day: (q s exactamente lo mismo q comparti con mi abuelita por parte de mi papi, pero como te digo, soy vago y no qiero escrivirla otra vez.):
We definitely still need to follow and heed to the counsel and guidance of our prophet, that's what we teach all of the people we talk to is that we have the blessing of a prophet on the earth today. Something that the world went without for a lot time which is what led to all of the religious confusion that we have today. We had one investigator tell us this week that he didn't want to keep talking to us because different religions bring confusion and sometimes contention into the family and we tried to tell him that "no, all of your confusion and questions that you may or may not have can be answered by this message and by the words of the prophets, and it will bring peace, happiness and eternity to your family, not contention!" Which is true. The restored gospel gives us the opportunity to be happy with our families forever, but we can be especially happy and protected now if we heed to the counsels of our prophet - called of God. This specific guy used his other God-given gift of agency to chose not to listen to us anymore, but that is something that we have to respect. Meanwhile we can use our agency to follow everything all of the prophets (from the old, new, and modern testaments all included) tell us to do! Sometimes it seems like a lot, but really it's just living a good life and abiding by the precepts of the Gospel always, and God ALWAYS blesses us when we do so.
Love you guys, persevera hasta el fin mami con tu escuela!
Elder Bailey
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