Elder Justyn Pollock

This week Pedro came to church again! Hey!! Exciting as it is another important step towards his baptism the 20th. We have been awhile without baptisms here and learned to be thankful for the small steps in the process of the investigator´s conversion. He loves the church and stayed for all 3 hours with his freinds again. He is 13 year old who´s grandparents are active members and Dad is less active. This week he had all sorts of "deep-doctrine" questions he wanted to know like "what type of fruit was the forbidden fruit?" and "Who is God's Dad?" "Jesus' Grandpa" I told him jokingly.

   We are still teaching Harol, though infrequently. I feel he is close to baptism and may any of these days make a decision. He attended church again this week all 3 hours.

   Today we had a leadership council with the President. We watched an inspired talk in an MTC address by Dieter Uchtdorf about preaching the gospel with courage. He talked about the transformation of the Apostle Peter in his testimony which I had read about alot recently. Before the ressurection of the Savior, Peter denied the Savior 3 times for fear of being recognized as one of his followers. After seeing the ressurected Christ, he becomes a courageous disciple who before threats of death and imprisonment etc. boldly testifies of the ressurected Savior. President Uchtdorf then turned that example to how we should boldly proclaim the gospel with as many people possible. 

   I´m super happy to be here as a missionary to preach the gospel. Hope everyone has a great week!

Elder Pollock