Semana 84

Hi everyone! I hope you´re having a great week. We´re doing great here in Riobamba! It´s awesome here and I´m happy to be here.

This week I reach 21 months!

We asist in a branch and asistance this week was about 62 which is very little. My goal is to by three months have regular asistance of about 90 to 100. We´re going to work really to make it work out. 

We have an investigator progresing. His name is M. He is has already been coming to church for a while and studies a ton about the church on the internet and scriptures and has a huge desire to be baptized. He can´t yet though because he wants to wait for his daughter to come back to Spain to see him get baptized. She gets back the first week of May so he´ll get baptized May 2nd. Which the zone leaders interviewed him a while ago and said that´s all okay. 

That´s about all for this week. I hope you have a great week and stay safe and I hope to hear from you all next week.

Chao!

-Elder Gomez

Amo ser misionero :)

Semana 83

Hi everyone! I hope you`re doing good. We`re are doing great here!

We had tranfers and I got transfered to Riobamba! in the Branch Los Alamos! It was sad to leave Ambato, but I`m excited to work in Riobamba and knowing that this is my last sector, I want to work as hard as I can here and in 12 weeks (two transfers) feel satisfied with what I`ve done here. Riobamba is a district but President has a lot of plans and visions for Riobamba and hopes that it can soon become a stake.

As for Ambato, we had four investigators in church yesterday. The family C asisted and we`re hoping that all works out for their baptism on the 4th of April. L, the mom of the two kids we baptized this change also asisted but doesn`t have a fecha. We also had Pablo asist who we found this week. He has a strong desire to follow Christ but has had some challenges in his life. He likes what we teach, but has a bit of a challenge accepting Joseph Smith. 

Well that`s all for this week. Hope you have a great week and be safe and I hope to hear from you next week!

-Elder Gomez

Amo ser misionero :)

Semana 82

Hi everyone! I hope you all had a great week! We´re doing good here in Ambato!!

We had stake conference yesterday and it was great! Four men from our ward were ordainded to the Melquisedec priesthood and that excited me a lot. We´re seeing a lot of changes in this ward and it´s headed in the right direction. Church asistance is also increasing and the ward is a lot more stronger now. Something that I´ve come to understand recently is that the most important thing in missionary work is bring souls to Christ and help establish the church and strengthen the wards and branches. If we baptize or reactivate a lot, then that means that asistance should go up and also have more men receiving the priesthood and more people renewing their convenants each week. If that doesn´t happen, then it´s not real growth and it´s just numbers. 

The family C asisted yesterday. They´re progressing really well and it was their second time in church. We hope that they can get baptized for the 28th of March. 

I´ve been studying a lot more the Bible and it´s helped me double the strength of my testimony in this month. The majority of members don´t study much from the Bible, but it´s important to read it. Everything of the Church is in the Bible. Everything about the book of mormon, apostasy, restauration, authority, temple ordinances, are in the bible. I´ve learned a lot of things that I´m starting to put into practice and it´s helping us a lot as we can answer the questions of people. We had a story about that with someone we taught who is evengelical and studies the bible a lot. What we shared helped her comprehend the importance of the book of mormon and the restauration. 

Well that´s about it for this week. Hope you have a great week and I hope to hear from you next week!

-Elder Gomez

Amo ser misionero :)

Semana 81

Hi everyone! I hope you´ve all had a great week! We´re doing great here in Ambato!

We had a lot of awesome miracles this week. A less active family asisted church yesterday by surprise! We didn´t think that they wanted to come back to church, but as we were sitting in sacrament meeting, they walked in. We´re really excited for them, and we´re gonna help them come back to church and so they can make plans to go the temple and be sealed as an eternal family. 

We had an awesome zone conference with presidente on friday and it was a great motivator. We learned a lot about the holy ghost and read the talk The 4th Missionary. It´s a great talk. If you haven´t read it, you should look for it. 

Well that´s about it for this week. Hope you have a great week and stay safe and I hope to hear from you all next week. Chao!

-Elder Gomez

Amo ser misionero. Se que Jesucristo vive y que estamos en la misión para llevar almas a Cristo. :)

Semana 80

Hi everyone! Hope you all had a great week! We´re doing great here in Ambato!

I´ve got 20 months now! The time has gone by fast!

I was in Quito thursday and friday for a conference for the district leaders of the mission. It was really good and we learned a lot of things. 

We had some new investigators in church yesterday and we´re really excited and hope that they´ll be able to get baptized in this month of march. We´re also seeing more less actives coming back to church and making plans with the bishop to be active again and get a temple recommend and have a calling. 

Well that´s about all for this week. Have a great week and stay safe and I hope to hear from you all next week. Chao!

-Elder Gomez

Amo ser misionero. Se que Jesucristo vive y que Él es nuestro Salvador. :)