Rhett - Blessings

Hey familia!

Wow the Lord really was able to bless us this week. We are seeing some great progression with some of our investigators. On Saturday we taught a lady named Celsa for the first time. We have been teachng hers kids but this time we were able to teach her the plan of salvation and let her know that God really does have a plan for each and every one of us and that our families can be together after this life. She loved it and understood so well! Yesterday she came to church all by herself! That was a big blessing this week!

Also Fransisco who is the son of member parents who had been fighting a lot with his mom and didn't want anythng to do wth the church has now been a lot better with his family and yesterday came to church as well! That was also a blessng.

The Lord really is helpng us over here, and know that when we turn to Him and do all we can do He continues to bless. This is the best work! Love you all!

Elder Reilly

Rhett

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAIGE! SORRY A LITTLE LATE, LOVE YOU! 

Hola Familia!

This week was a another good one! There really isn't a bad week when you are serving in the Lord's work. It's actually starting to get cold over here which is nice.I can walk for 5 minutes and not feel like I just took a shower. Haha I'm actually starting to use a sweater when we go out to teach. But things went well this week. We were able to visit some people that have been really hard to find after we visited them the first time, and had some great lessons! I can see how the Lord blesses us after the trial of our faith. These past couple weeks we have passed by these people's houses and they haven't been home or have been busy so we couldn't meet with a lot of them. Honestly it was pretty frustrating haha. But this week we kept the faith and decided to keep passing by until we found them. So we kept passed by and were able to find them finally and had some awesome lessons!

One of those lessons was with a lady named Angela. She is a single mom who lives in a house with her sister and one of her kids. We passed by to visit her after almost 2 weeks had passed. We asked her if she remembered what we taught her last, she said she remembered a little bit. So we starting explaining to her the restoration again and she began to remember. We asked her if she had prayed to know if it was true, and she said no, but she told us that she feels it is true! She told us how it all just makes sense. But, that she knows she needs to ask God. We invited her to do so, and she said she would, and that we can pass by whenever we want if she's home. Its hard to explain how well it went in a letter, but it was great to see her willingness to learn and how she has felt the Spirit and feels it is true! If we would have given up and not kept passing by to see if she was there, we probably would have never found her again, and she never would have been able to know the truth of these things! I know that Heavenly Father is part of this work, and He sees our efforts. When we do all we can, He does the rest. I know these things are true, and that Heavenly Father will help us know the truth if we seek it. Have a good week! Much love

Elder Reilly

Trent - Negro Villeros left and right

Hola Everyone!

So now I've been here in the new area for a week. It is really ghetto and poor so we will surely find many good and humble people here. It's a little dangerous haha but we'll be just fine. Elder Garcia and I are pretty much starting from scratch. There are a couple of people that he and his other companion were teaching but they aren't really progressing so we are just on the search for more. We have been talking to EVERY person here so if we keep doing it God will put His prepared children in our path. I have no doubt! My comp is from Cali too and he went to BYU and we get along very well. We're already great friends.

Faith works miracles so we're just going to keep showing our faith through our actions. We're gonna keep praying for miracles and keep talking to everyone and I know God will bless us a lot. We are both hungry for baptisms so we're gonna do EVERYTHING to get them. Pray for us so we can be guided to someone that can play the paino amazingly because the people in this ward CANNOT sing at all haha and there's no pianist! 

Love you and miss you all! See you soon!

Elder Reilly

Trent - Almost Mothers Day

Hola Everyone!

This last week was awesome. First of all, last P Day our Mission President took us to Lanin National Park! It was so sweet! He goes home next transfer so it was fun to get some cool time with him before he goes. Love that guy! The national park is really beautiful. There's a volcano and some sweet waterfalls and a volcanic sand beach. We went the whole day so we had no time to write.

We have been trying to talk to EVERYONE we see this week and we have now found a solid group of people to teach. We are being a lot more direct with everyone too. This week three investigators named Luz, Valeria, and Gaston came to church. About two months ago, Elder Johansson and I had contacted and taught Luz and invited her to be baptized but she wasn't very interested in the message so we stopped passing by. Then the other day we contacted Gaston in the street and he was super interested and invited us to his house to share our message. When we get to his house we realize that it is the same one as Luz. We thought she had moved. To our surprise, she was still there and her sister was too. We taught the three of them and they were all super interested. They accepted a baptisimal date for the 2nd of June if God answers their prayers and tells them that our message is true! They had read the Book of Mormon that we left them two months earlier a little bit and now they are ready to receive the gospel. God prepared them quickly. I am so glad that we didn't let Gaston just pass us in the street. We opened our mouth and talked to him and now he's listening to us and coming closer to Christ. God prepares everything and if we can open our mouth he was lead us directly to His prepared children!

Love you and miss you all! I hope all is well at home. Nos vemos pronto!

Elder Reilly

Rhett - Rapiditooooo

Hola Familia!!

I hope your doing good. This week went by super fast, it's insane it's already the last week of the transfer. This week we had a great week. We are seeing a lot of progression in investigators. I really hope to stay here for another transfer. I feel in the next few weeks there will be some great things happening. This transfer as a zone we did an activity where we really focused on service and love, and showing that in everything we do. Being a zone leader it has been awesome hearing all the stories and experiences from the zone in all the different areas. Today we had an activity where every companionship shared an experience or what they were able to learn out of this transfer. The spirit was so strong as they testified about the impact love and service has had on them and in their areas. I feel like the zone is like family. We are all close and know we are all here helping each other out. Love and service really does unite. It has shown me really how when we love and serve we come to love those we are serving and become closer as brothers and sisters! Every day we have the opportunity to serve! Sorry I don't have much time, but having experiences daily on the mission has really helped me come to know on how much the Savior has done and how much He really has served us. We owe him so much...All he asks us to do is come to Him! I love this gospel so much! Much Love

Elder Reilly

Rhett - Despues Todos que Podemos

Hola familia!

I hope you all had a great week! It's always great to hear from the fam and know how your doing. Congrats Sid! Congratulations on graduating. That is crazy your already done, keep killin it in track!!

This week was a better one than last. Miguel finally came to church! It was awesome to see him there. He really loves the church and knows it's good, he's just gotta follow through! I can see a big change in him though since we first met him until now. 

We also were able to find some awesome new investigators this week. As a zone we have been doing an activity where every week we have a specific focus, and then try and apply it throughout the week. This week we focused on finding new investigators and getting references for new people to visit. It's crazy how the Lord sees our efforts and blesses us according to our actions. I'm not gonna tell the whole story but we were able to find a girl, who had recently passed through something super difficult in her life and we were able to find her and help her out just when she needed it. She now wants to continue to meet with us to come closer to God. I know that God sees our efforts and has a plan for us all. He knows what we want and need and when we trust in Him and do all we can do, He provides the means so we can accomplish great things. I have been able to see that daily here as a missionary! I know this is His work! Love you all, have a great week!

Elder Reilly