Elder Caleb d'Evegnée

  I left my colder town of Agua Prieta back to the oven of Hermosillo. It was difficult to leave the people I had met there even if it was only a little over a month. In my last week there, we got to see a lot of blessings: we had a freind really like General Conference and that helped her be more interested in the restored gospel, we talked to one of our friends that is going to our church and another and about her desire to be baptized, had a baby blessing, and we got to see our little baptized friend Luis testify in front of everyone in the sacrament meeting where we finally got to see a lot of the people we had been hoping to see there for weeks. It was hard to say goodbye to a lot of my friends there. They are really good people that love the Lord and want to do what is right. The best part is we get get laugh a lot while we talk to them as well. A lot of them asked us if we're going to come back someday and we joyfully responded, "Claro que si!"     When I came to H...

  Our week was full of activities, conferences, and invitations to everyone we knew or didn't know. We spent a lot of time trying to help some of our friends feel more included in the branch. With one of them in particular, a youth, we brought her to also make new friends. She has a baptismal date that we're really hope will go through but there is another church she's been going to for longer. She has a great desire to serve a mission and preach the gospel. It was great to see her at the youth activities and slowly start conversing with the other youth. It was a good start to help her feel more included. In another activity we saw a few families of members we invited too. That made me happy to see them and to see them doing what they've wanted for awhile. I was also very happy to see my little spanglish friend again. She became more and more excited to see us each time as she eventually hugged us shouting "ELDERS!!!" We're amigos.   We've been teachin...