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Have Y'all forgotten about me Yet?? (been two months)


This week was good. Today it has been two months since I left, and I really do not have any sense of time anymore. It is kind of becoming repetitive every day. We have a schedule to follow and work every day. But this last week I got to do some fun things. On Saturday we went to the temple with our branch. That was a lot of fun because I got to feel the spirit so strong. It is the smallest temple in the world, which is cool. Everything is on one floor. And they do not have a separate entrance for the baptismal font which is different. The spirit was so strong and I love being able to help people on the other side make it back to our Heavenly Father.
Yesterday I had the wonderful privilege to speak in church. I spoke closely to preparing for the priesthood. The priesthood has blessed me and my family so much in my life. I found a great talk by President Henry B. Eyring from the Priesthood session of October 2011. https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2011/10/preparation-in-the-priesthood-i-need-your-help?lang=eng I love how he talks about how we have been preparing for this work from the beginning of time. He says "We may come to think of priesthood preparation as occurring in the Aaronic Priesthood years. But our Heavenly Father has been preparing us since we were taught at His knee in His kingdom before we were born. He is preparing us tonight. And He will continue to prepare us as long as we will let Him." If we put our trust in the Lord he will help us grow and learn. When I bore my testimony yesterday at the end of my talk, my spanish flowed and I got to say everything I wanted to. The spirit really guided me through my talk and I am grateful for the gift of tongues.
Marisol - She is so ready to be baptized. She shared a scripture from the Book of Mormon this last week with one of her friends that "hates" our church. She is such a great missionary. The only problem is her husband does not really like the idea of her getting baptized, so we are going there tonight to talk to him about the Gospel and how our purpose is to just invite others to come unto Christ. Hopefully he takes our message well, because she loves the Gospel of Jesuschrist, and wants to be baptized. Please pray that her husband will have a tender heart so that he can accept her choices to join this Marvelous church of Christ.
That is it from me this week. A little bit shorter. It is still really hard here, and I am still adjusting to everything and missing home. But that is good. The spirit has been stronger this last week which has brought me such joy. I will go through times that I am stressing a lot, but then I remind my self why I am here and it usually helps me feel better. Sometimes no. Crying always helps... 
I love all of you so much. Miss you and care for you. Please try to make steps in your own mission are this Earth to build yourself spiritually.

- Elder Stokes


El Templo


We ate out!

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