Mission Week 33, Bogota City Week 16, "Put all of your faith in God and trust in him"

Our new president, President Valladares, set new goals for the mission this week. He went around to every zone in our mission. One of the goals he set for us is the "Good Contact" goal. That's when you get their number, name, address, and a time to go and visit them. He has challenged our zone to find 4 Good Contacts each day. He also promised us that if we fulfilled these goals that we would start seeing a lot of success. So each week were hoping to get at least 24 "Good Contacts" in.

This Wednesday, we had an activity with all of the recent converts in our ward in the house of the Ramirez family. One of these recent converts who just passed a year as being a member, put together this awesome program for all of them. The message was centered on how we can be closer to God. One of the recent converts here is a great example to me of humility. His name is Carlos Modesto. He was baptized about 3 months ago. His story is absolutely amazing, AND why we need to talk with everyone! Carlos Modesto, when he was about 24 years old received a Book of Mormon from a friend. He took it, but never intended on reading it. After about 25 years had passed, Carlos found the Book sitting in a box in his house. He took it and started to read! He immediately was interested to learn more about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He ended up finding the missionaries because he had walked all the way to the Temple here in Bogota. After that, he received the lessons and shortly after, was baptized. He had told me that he knew no matter what the missionaries were going to say to him during the lessons, that he knew it was truth. He had received his answer beforehand when he read the Book of Mormon!

This Sunday we also had the opportunity to visit a member who we had given a priesthood blessing to just before she was about to go into surgery. She has a tumor that needed to be taken out. Something that I'll never forget is that she told us, "If you guys tell me I'm going to be okay, I know everything is going to be okay." The only request she had made was to have a photo of Christ when he was suffering for us in the Garden of Gethsemane. She held it close to her heart.

I know God Lives, he's there for us in every moment of our lives.  He knows exactly what we need and when we need it.  Put all of your faith and trust in him!

Love you all!

Elder Horton