Monday, February 25, 2019










Hello friends and family!!

I hope you all had a great week, we are all pretty floored with the new announcement on the new communication rules!

This week we had some big successes, and some great spiritual moments with some of our investigators, so I’m just going to get right to it!

This past week, I carried a small notebook with me to record my spiritual impressions that I receive during the day. Its helped me to notice that the Spirit really is constantly helping us as we move forward His work! One of the cool experiences we had was with one of our investigators, Vida Valle. She comes from a very Catholic background, and she has some problems with praying in public... We were teaching about prayer and the blessings we can receive by praying and expressing our feelings to Him. She expressed to us worries that she isn’t good at expressing herself vocally, and I related to her my feelings at the beginning of my mission is spanish. I told her, "God understands the feelings of the heart, even if we can’t find the words to express them."

We were teaching Mariela this week about the Plan of Salvation, and she was understanding really well. As we were telling her about the Resurrection, we told her, "Every person who has ever lived upon the face of the earth. will be resurrected, and we will see our families and loved ones again." And the smile that came to her face was unmistakable. I love the happiness that the Plan of Salvation brings to all the people we teach!

We had the baptism of the Familia Villarroel. We had filled up the font partially, planning to come by Saturday in the morning to finish filling it up before the service at 11 am. We arrived to the chapel, and the water had been cut off in the whole city. We were pretty panicked, with only 30 cm of water. So, we called President, and he gave us permission to go to the river and do the service there. We started the service all normal in the chapel, with the talks and Elder Amasifuén and I did a musical number. After, we piled all the people in the four cars, and we headed to the river to do the baptismal ordinance. It was a really cool experience.

A scripture I really liked from my study this week:

Mosiah 24:10-12

Love you all so much! Have a great week!!

Elder Newman


Mom’s Questions:

1. The biggest question of the week: When did you find out about the new rule about missionary communication with families and what was your reaction? 

I found out on Saturday right before the baptism, and we were all super excited!

2. How was the baptism this weekend? 

Really cool, one of the most memorable experiences I’ve had.

3. Do they celebrate Valentine’s Day in Bolivia? 

Not really, hahah.

4. What do you do on P-day in your new area? 

We play soccer in the afternoons.

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