One Amazing Week

Dear people I love,

This week has absolutely flown, and I am so grateful to be a servant of the Lord. Two days of interviews, a multi-zone conference, and a baptism have kept us on our toes for sure, and I feel like I'm learning, growing, and developing. Definitely getting a lot of lessons I didn't know I needed 😊

Ling got baptized!! I am so grateful she got to make covenants with the Lord. It was my first chance to see someone I'm teaching do so since March of 2020, and as such, I was reflecting on what makes baptismal experiences so amazing. I like thinking about how it's the knowledge and the faith that we have. Seeing a baptism would be just seeing someone get wet if not for our knowledge and faith that Priesthood power has been restored and that our eternal progression requires ordenances and covenants.

I'm in a trio again, Elder Baird has come into the office to be our referral secretary, bringing our secretary total to five. I'll still be with Elder Romero for at least a couple more months, and we are just living the dream. I'm super excited to continue learning from and working with both of them.

We need your prayers for more missionaries. The Peruvian government still won't process new visas, and President Holt is going through the painful process of deciding which towns and wards can survive without missionaries for now. We're down to about 60 missionaries, and by the end of the year we could drop as low as 40.

Life is amazing! I know that this Church is true. That is the most precious knowledge I have. Jesus is our Savior, and we are eternal beings on the road to eternal fulfillment if we make and keep our covenants. In the name of our Savior Jesus Christ, Amen.

Happy, grateful, lucky and blessed,

Elder Child 😊