This week was a little weird, not a whole bunch happened. First off Marco,Jacqueline, and Santiago didn't get baptized this Saturday, which was really tough. They were all ready and excited to be baptized but then lots of personal problems happened all at once in their lives and they decided to postpone their baptisms for an undisclosed period of time. It's hard to see them make this decision, but we're going to keep doing what we can to help them.
Secondly, I decided to start reading The Book of Mormon(pero es español) from the beginning and highlight everytime it talks about God and Jesus Christ. I started last Wednesday and I finished it this Wednesday, It was an amazing experience. I love the Book of Mormon! It truely is another testament of Jesus Christ. I can't remember a page where I didn't highlight something or someone taking about our Savior and Redeemer. Like the Bible, The Book of Mormon is sacred scriptures inspired from God. As we read the words and testimonies of the prophets of the ancient Americas and as we pray and ask god if it's true we come to know by the power of the holy ghost that Jesus is the Christ, he is our Savior and Redeemer, and thanks to him we can one day return and live with our father in heaven. We understand more clearly the covenants we make at baptism and understand more clearly the age of when someone is baptized, we learn that the fall of Adam and Eve was a step forward in God's plan of happiness for all of us, we learn that Christ ministered to the people of the ancient america's after his resurrection. Thanks to the Book of Mormon we can know that God called prophets and God still calls prophets, because he called young Joseph Smith to be a prophet, to translate the Book of Mormon and now he's called Russell M. Nelson to be the Prophet on the Earth today.
If you've already read the Book of Mormon before, I urge you to continue reading the Book of Mormon, and If you haven't read the Book of Mormon I invtie you to start reading it, meet with the missionaries, and pray and ask God if it's true. I testify that it is, and it will bless your life and the life of your family like nothing else in this world can. I'm so blessed to have the opportunity to share this message with the people of Colombia. I love and miss you guys!
Elder McBride
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