Easter Message

I love the atonement of Christ. God expects us to be perfect, but we aren't. But Christ's example gives us hope that we can be, and His sacrifice is the reason that we can repent to one day become perfect. 

There is so much work in God's kingdom and he needs so many hands. We are Chirst's hands, he needs us to help His children who aren't in His fold yet.

Thank you so much for the package! I love it! you guys are so thoughtful!

Here in Leon it has been Semana Santa. aka the hottest week of the year. Everyone left for the beach or had one of those little plastic kid pools out in front of their house. In the center of town they make carpets of colored sand that fill up the whole street and then have processions with Statues of Christ and I don't know what else because that's not my area, but pretty crazy stuff!

Remember that Rudy that got baptized a few weeks ago? Well, he didn't come to church AGAIN, so he couldn't get confirmed. AGAIN. He had problems with his wife on Sunday morning and he didn't show up. 

This morning I learned about the power of prayer. We had had kind of a rough past 2 weeks because we haven't had a lot of success with bringing people to church. Lots of people have accepted to be baptized, but they can't be baptized if they don't go to church. (= I listened to a talk by Elder Bednar in the morning about some principles of prayer and and later talked to God. More than anything else prayer helps us gain a more excellent vision. Helps us see the good things, the hand of the Lord , the ways He has worked in our lives and the assurance that He still will. It also helps us repent, change, and be humble.

I love you guys so much! God works miracles in our lives! The process of Converting to Christ is a fight of every day. God loves you and I do too!

Hermana Merrill