E-mail dated 10/8/18

Kamusta Kamo!!?? 

Well I guess to start off, I did hear about the big announcement by Pres. Nelson, they announced it in our sacrament meeting yesterday,news travels fast. I was surprised, but I am sure I will more fully understand it as I listen to the talk next week in general conference. From what I have heard from you guys it sounds great, especially for the leaders of the church who have a lot of meetings, thats what our bishop mentioned to us. It is a great time, we are being led and guided by a living prophet. That truly is an amazing blessing. 

Its been another busy week. So this week, unfortunately we weren't able to get a lot of lessons in, but the it was still a great week. On Wednesday and Thursday we had MLC again. I really like the new and stronger emphasize we are be trained to give to the Book of Mormon. The Book of Mormon is such an amazing and powerful book. We should never take it for granted. That is why as a mission we are trying to use always and in every way possible. Also this week there were some emergency transfers, so one missionary in our zone came with us, so its been the 3 of us and 2 areas for these last couple of days, it has been kind of crazy, but its been fun too! But tomorrow is the actual transfer day and neither I or Elder Tolentino are transferring. I am happy to stay here in Lapaz, especially because the Gabawa family baptism is on the 20th. But it looks like our zone will be changing a lot, there are 4 missionaries in our zone that will be training. Hopefully Isaac taeolii from murray will come to our zone, that would be fun!! He is coming here next week. There are a lot of foreigners/ americans that are coming in so it looks like I won't be the only one in our zone anymore haha. 

So even though its been kind of a crazy week. We had some great experiences. This family where only 1 daughter is a member (LA) and everyone else is a non member, we have been teaching them for a while and so far that hadn't really progressed. But this week we had a great lesson with them about the plan of salvation. We shared the verse in alma 34:32 about how this life is the time we have to prepare to meet God. It was really cool to see their mindset change and this sunday, the LA duaghter came to church for the first time in years and her parents came with her to church for the first time. That is one great experience of using the Book of Mormon, the themselves felt the spirit as they read that verse and we saw it change their countenance. That was a little miracle this week, I am excited to continue to teach them. 

Well that should do it for another week, sorry for the short email. Hopefully here in the coming weeks, I might be able to have a normal week! haha well I guess this type of week is sort of normal now. Well, I greatly appreciate the love and support that you all always give me. Hope everyone has a great week! GO UTES GO JAZZ!

Palangga Ko Kamo!

Elder Degen