Week 14 - October 20, 2025

 HOW BOUT THEM COUGS!

WOWWW prayers do work in so many ways. What a game #skocougs. I'm not jealous at all of anyone that was in attendance…

Marcos

So after Marcus came to district conference last week, with pure joy we decided to see if he wanted to get baptized this week. Where with a big smile he accepted. We returned the next two days, and he was just so happy and excited for his baptism on Sunday. My comp said this was the easiest baptism he has ever set. We did have One visit that was very interesting as we husked corn and degrained every single one for two hours. The corn is very tough so the fingers paid the price. But it was worth it because he pulled through with the baptism.

Yeyko

What a Rollercoaster this week was with Yeyko. But wow what a miracle. So basically, Tuesday we walked to his house again which is not a close walk. It's like an hour each way. And yet again he brushed us off and it didn't happen. So, we decided to drop him cause he was just dodging us five visits in a row. Then Sunday morning we are getting ready to leave to go pick up this family for church. And after leaving us on read all week he calls us. He's like, "Hey, I want to come to church today." We're like what is happening. So, we go pick him up and while we are at the baptism he basically tells us how bad he feels about everything and how he hopes he can be baptized soon because of how he's felt that day. Whattttt a turn around. 

Drunkkk guy

This week I realllllly took one for the team. We were in the center and had an appointment with this guy who is very very interesting. He brought his daughter who's 8 and she was just trying to go home. But we were sitting on this bench and this drunkkkkk guy came up and like started bowing to us then went and sat next to the girl and was like putting his arms around her and the dad WASNT DOING ANYTHING? I was like nah, so I took the guy over like 15 feet away. For the next hour while my companion was teaching this guy, I just had this drunk who just smelled so bad and was just trying to hug me the entire time. But he would just not leave. I will say it was a very very long hour.

Spiritual thought 

16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Very basic scripture I know I know. However, my companion and I have been talking about this concept a ton this week and I just love this scripture a lot. No where in this scripture does it say that we must have a perfect knowledge. No where does it say that we must have perfect actions. And nowhere does it say that we need to be perfect. But what it does say we need to do is believe. 

Elder Dieter F Uchtdorf said in the October 2024 conference, “If we wait to act until all of our questions are answered, we severely limit the good we can accomplish, and we limit the power of our faith.” It is never about knowing everything or being perfect. We just need to have a little bit of belief and a little bit of faith and act. Faith is a thing of action. The more we act the more we strengthen our faith. And we cannot strengthen it from doing nothing.

Little bit of a short email today, but I love you all.  Hope you had great weeks and will have great ones.

Elder Wilde