SALINAS FAMILY ON THEIR WAY TO ETERNITY - OCTOBER 2, 2011

Yeah Baby - P Day
Soccer and pizza
I love my Argentina soccer shirt.

The Salinas Family and Susanna at General Conference
Susanna is ready to be baptised just nervous on how we are going
 to get her and her wheelchair in and out of the water 

The entire Salinas family is now baptised and on their way to eternity.



Baptism of Walter and Mica Salinas

Hey Family!!!

Wow what a week I have the pleasure to report to you this week. I don't have much time because we took the P day to enjoy ourselves and went to a pizza joint and played soccer,  it was a type of fun that I haven't had in a very long time!!! Well needed!!!

But wow can I just tell you how much I love the conference time of year,  general conference honestly just gave me an energy I cant explain, I wanted everyone I know to enjoy the blessing of hearing the voice of the "Moses of our days" Thomas S. Monson. We ran around contacting everyone that would give us 25 seconds to explain his importance, we prepared a sweet home evening to explain to all out investigators the importance of a prophet in the world today, we had a great turn out, I'll send a picture.

Oh I forgot to mention that as of this transfer I am now a zone leader. It is a honor and a privilege to serve and help other people...there is no time for anything, I love it though... it is really great to work with other missionaries and learn from them, I do have to mention that it is really hard to write in my journal at night, but I am still going strong and haven't missed a day in what now is my nine months in the mission (I can't believe how fast time flies!)

We had a goal of 100 investigators in the zone to attend conference and had everyone working hard and pumped up to meet the goal, we worked hard and had very specific plans with 20 people, but as you know you have to invite double who actually come, and it worked out about like that, we had 11 that came to hear the words of the prophet.

 

Things got really complicated this weekend as we had to go look for investigators, worry what they were thinking and feeling and in the midst of all that we managed to baptize two people between the sessions, Walter and Mica.

 

The Salinas family are all dunked and ready to start their path to eternal life, Walter and Mica who had complications this last week were baptized and looked so good in white,  Walter is way excited to receive the priesthood so he can baptise his son Claudio on December 7th when he turns 8.

The most exciting news of all is that Susanna the lady in the wheel chair I have been talking about has been praying and reading and doing all that God has asked her to do to receive an answer, but she hasn't received an answer yet, she is scared to go to church because of her wheel chair. We promised her that if she would use her faith and go to hear the prophet of  God she would feel something that she hasn't felt before, we went to look for her...and she came!

 

Susanna 100 percent at attention and didn't hardly blink, at the end of the conference when they sang How Great Thou Art... I looked over and she had tears running down her cheeks, the members were so amazing to her, we ran around and asked everyone to say Hi to her and I swear over 60 people personally gave her a kiss and welcomed her! It was incredible!

 

We then took her to the baptismal font and showed her and explained to her that Christ himself was baptized and we help people follow his perfect example! I hold back tears asI tell you the only question she had was " How are you going to get me in and out of the water if I'm in a wheel chair"... We have a baptism date for the 22nd of October!

 

I too have been praying and preparing for the conference for almost a month and some of my deepest questions and desires were met in almost everyone of the 5 sessions!

Tate, McCray and Shad... you all have better been in the Priesthood session, and if not, you should pray and repent! Dad I hope you did your part to make sure they were there like you always did for me, I sat in a room alone and listened to the session in English and I know that those talks were not only for m, but that he answered my prayers and were there for you as well, I would really love to hear your comments on what you learned.

I was hit really strongly with a 2 phrases from the conference!

LOOK UP, and take the actions to STEP UP, and you are guaranteed to CHEER UP! I know that as we look at the best in every situation, and do that which makes the situation better we will find a happiness we have never had... I have seen this in the hard times of my mission!!!

We often pray for patience, but we want it NOW! I know that patience is the key to happy, healthy, relationships... especially in the family. We can all work on our patience levels and be much happier!

Well this is all the time that I have for today but don't worry I'll be writing in no time! Tate and Shad good luck in your football games.. and Dad keep on working hard big guy! I love you!

May you have the faith to make the changes that God would have you make in your lives!

 

Elder Foster