How blessed to be led

Arrived Oct 7, 2015

Love you more than…

Elder Sheffield´s attempt at making the Sheffield traditional General Conference soup. Though, Campbell’s lasagna soup is good and all, in my attempts at a substitution. It was still good to try and meet tradition and have soup with bread/breadsticks on conference weekend.

Gringo's watching conference

Wow! was this week amazing! We got to see all the conference sessions live and in English, which was great. Us three gringos sat in a room rapidly scribbling notes and slowly but steadily losing our Spanish haha. But I really love how simply spiritually it was. How blessed we are to be led by God through leaders. They seem to have seen and know it all. I went to the infamous bi-national Mercado (market) again this week and got three new ties. I felt like dad bargaining down prices just to save a few pennies. I got three ties for the equivalent of $1.50. I also found a waffle iron/maker that I´m really tempted to buy. What do you think, is it a good idea? I could probably bear taking it with me for the rest of the mission! What a temptation. 

We have had some amazing lesson with a few investigators, especially with the family of Jeffri. They said that God sent us to them and they agreed to a baptismal date. I´m a little nervous because I want so bad for them to know this is true for themselves and continue onto baptism and beyond. We were pleasantly surprised by almost all the menos activos we know in Carbonera who came to Sunday General Conference! “Yay go cow filled Carbonera!!” We had a crazy rainstorm the other day and we were running through the flooded streets enjoying being cold. We had another service project to grind corn and then were stuffed to the rafters with spaghetti and bread for lunch afterwards. 

Wow the family sounds great (and reckless). It sounds like you guys are learning to drive like Dominicans! It’s nice to hear about how you guys are doing, and how you guys are going to start ponderizing. I loved the messages about mothers and families from conference. Elder Holland was describing perfectly you mom. I´m proud to be the son of a spiritual giantess, who has never once given up on me no matter how stubborn I´ve been. Also I have the best family in the world and I´m excited to see how you guys have grown- not only physically but spiritually. Keep ponderizing and building our celestial home one prayer, one scripture, one kind act of service at a time. That´s kind of my spiritual thought, how every small act builds into something bigger. Families are forever, and the way to have a place in heaven is every day building our house through spiritual things. We use prayers and service instead of cement and wood. I know you guys are going to be happier as you do these things.

I forgot to tell you to give my love to the family last email so give them double this time and for anyone who is preparing/leaving on a mission tell them to find a talk called the 4th missionary. This is one of the greatest inspirations for missionaries there is. 

Con amor Elder Sheffield -- Elder Andrew W. Sheffield