Mission Week 19 Bogota City Week 2, "One step closer to being fluent in Spanish"

This week we had the baptism of Juan Jose! That was a super spiritual experience for me. It always is, because I realize now how much that it changes a persons life. Juan kept on saying when am I going to get the Holy Ghost! His confirmation was that following Sunday, and guess what!? Juan Jose asked me to do it!! That was my first time confirming someone as a member of the church. My Spanish is getting pretty good now. I can talk to people normally. I still mess up a billion times throughout the day, but that just means I'm getting one step closer to being fluent!

We decided to start working with the members this week since we had a video sent from our mission president for us to watch. It was a discourse of Elder Utchdorf talking about how we can better use members in the ward to strengthen our investigators relationships with people, and help them have desires to continue to come to church. We decided to try it out with our investigator Sebastian! He has a testimony and knows that the church is true, and we have also taught him all of the lessons. Now its just a matter of helping him have the desire to come to church every Sunday. We had a member of the stake presidency and the bishop of our ward come with us, and we taught the lesson on how we can continue to learn and serve in the church. We had them share personal experiences and their testimonies with Sebastian. He felt their love for him, I know he did because the spirit was with us. Sebastian started to open up to the stake member and the bishop as he gained more trust in them. He has desires to keep coming to church to learn and to grow. I know that the importance of members helping your missionaries is very important. Please!! Help them!! Your short simple testimony and personal experiences could change the life of an investigator and give them a different perspective on the importance of coming to church. As you show your concern and love for them, they will grow to love you and this will give them the desire to come to church!

I had to go to the dentist here which wasn't too fun. I guess the last time I went to the dentist and I got my cavity filled, the cement stuff wasn't put in right, so this lady drilled it all out of my tooth and then started over. That feeling of your tooth getting drilled is one of the most uncomfortable feelings in the world.

Other than that my comp and I continue to chow down on pizza because we got the PROMOTION STILL! Were literally paying 3 American dollars each to get a big pizza and soda. Life is good.

Love you all! Read the Scriptures! Pray daily and nightly! The Lord loves you, I know it!

With Love,
Elder Horton

Baptims of May 5th in Cedros, Bogotà (with the sister missionaries)

Baptism of Juan Josè!