Smoke from the Fires

This week the lady who was supposed to be baptized went off the deep end. She won't answer her phone or answer the door so that fell down the hole quick. So we went from having two baptisms to nothing in two quick weeks.  The thing with Jessenia is she didn't come to church yesterday, but I was sitting there waiting after church and I get a call and it's Jessenia and she is crying.  She asked if we could come over because Carlos broke up with her because she didn't want to drink with him. We have seen the power of the atonement with her and it's incredible. Like she has changed so much so we got that and now she knows that this is it, but I don't know, I don't want to say she will get baptized this week because every time I think she will, something bad happens. Jessenia has learned that what the church says about the law of chastity is right and that God knows what he is talking about. She is way good now and hopefully in the next few weeks I will be able to send a picture of her baptism.

This week we had a conference with President Kahnlein.  It was good.  We got to watch the movie "Meet the Mormons". it was really good. I liked it and President K showed a scripture where it says "Jesus smiles." I think iI needed to hear that because I need to smile more.

There was a bad fire here so the air was filled with smoke and it was hard to work.  You couldn't really see and it was hard to breath, but its all good now. The fire was aways away, but the smoke just filled the sky, but Valpo was clear and I got a sweet pic of it because the fire had a good sunset. Then that is good that Utah made the tournament. I want to know when was the last time Utah made the tournament. Other then that, not much has happened. Have a good week.

Love,

Elder Gillies

Con Con's beautiful sunset from the fires

Tyson & Elder Garcia - 3/13/15