WEEK AWESOME! In Zona Huasteca!‏ February 22, 2016

So I am super duper excited for the week that went by. We had a bunch of investigators in church. Including Eva!!! WOOT WOOT!!! She is the one that has refused the missionaries since 2012 to go to church! We also found an inactive that came back with his family and his wife isn`t member. they went to church! Familia De la Cruz! We are now teaching them and they are really excited. Ruben is an RM and he wants to repent and get his life back in order. :) So it is a great experience with them. :) We are seeing things go up and up! We found out that Agustin that has a HUGE desire to repent and be baptized will be able to, but needs some special permission from higher up and I won`t be here to see his baptism but it is all good. I can plant seeds all day, it doesn`t bother me. We are still going to work with him. We have some others too but we have to see how things roll out in these days. It is just awesome to be able to teach the Gospel to the WORLD. I makes me happy :) But I am just happy to be with Elder Garner still. He is going to go to BYU after so I will probably be able to see him sometimes. So I would just like to share something that I was pondering this week. Which is a topic that we can never stop pondering or bettering our understanding. The Atonement. First of all we have to understand why it was necesary. I always talk to people that say Jesus Christ died for my sins. Then after a discussion they don`t really know why he had to. They just know that he did. We know that because of the Fall. We are all indebted. Alma 12 22 Now Alma said unto him: This is the thing which I was about to explain. Now we see that Adam did fall by the partaking of the forbidden fruit, according to the word of God; and thus we see, that by his fall, all mankind became a lost and fallen people. Mosiah 2 23 And now, in the first place, he hath created you, and granted unto you your lives, for which ye are indebted unto him. 24 And secondly, he doth require that ye should do as he hath commanded you; for which if ye do, he doth immediately bless you; and therefore he hath paid you. And ye are still indebted unto him, and are, and will be, forever and ever; therefore, of what have ye to boast? 2 Nephi 9 7 Wherefore, it must needs be an infinite atonement—save it should be an infinite atonement this corruption could not put on incorruption. Wherefore, the first judgment which came upon man must needs have remained to an endless duration. And if so, this flesh must have laid down to rot and to crumble to its mother earth, to rise no more. 8 O the wisdom of God, his mercy and grace! For behold, if the flesh should rise no more our spirits must become subject to that angel who fell from before the presence of the Eternal God, and became the devil, to rise no more. I am so thankful for our Saviour. As I come to know his Atonement more, I realize even more the importance of spreading this simple truth. I love the saviour. I know he lives. And Loves us. And I know that if we do his plan. We will be able to return to the presence of our Father in Heaven. I love you all! Elder Slade