IT SNOWED and THEN MELTED!

Como estan?

We had a pretty great week and the weather was nice again. It snowed last Monday evening/over the night so we shoveled a bunch of walks Tuesday morning, which was pretty fun.

We live in like a retired community so everyone is older and they like it when two younger guys come and help them shovel their driveway. The snow is basically all gone by now, just patches here and there.

We've been meeting with a lot of inactives and some of them are progressing and others aren't, but that's the way the work goes. Our Russian friend, Olesya, is definitely progressing and her husband, Nils, who hasn't been active in the Church for over 10 years bore his testimony in our meeting yesterday which totally rocked! He talked about how when he was first investigating the Church he made a commitment to stop drinking coffee (He used to drink four quadruple shot mochas everyday) and he never had headaches and never went back to drinking coffee since then because he made a commitment to our Heavenly Father. Olesya is ready and we just need to set her baptismal date.

We also went to dinner with a couple who are pretty young, they don't go to church that much but they are both Islanders, he is Fijian and her family is Tongan. Well, we went to IHOP and they basically made us order twice, so that was fun, not that fun riding bikes afterward though. haha.

Other than that I think we had a pretty normal week. I love you all!

I've started understanding a lot more about why people don't do the things that they know are right. Sometimes they're lazy, or prideful, or scared, or there are a hundred reasons, but what most people forget is that the Atonement is literally infinite, that no matter what we've done, no matter what we've experienced, we can always repent or utilize the enabling power of the Atonement and be healed. We just have to come unto Him, that's our part and then He does the rest, He's already done the rest for us.

I love this gospel and couldn't think of doing anything else with this time right now. Thanks for being such an awesome family. Ciao!

Elder Wardle