So you have heard

Well....until next week i'll get the update I guess,

This week was incredible....we have seen so many blessings in the work as we strive to obey the training we have been given from President for our mission. I know the Lord guides this work. We met a man named Giovanni from Honduras. He came to the states the first time to study to become an Engineer but after two years his step father died so he had to go help is Mom raise his brother and sister ( he never knew his dad) He put his dreams aside and went back to Honduras and worked for 10 years to get his brother and sister through college and then sent his brother off to nashville with 10,000 dollars of his saving to study for his masters degree. After 8 months though his brother was killed in a drunk driving accident but the man was not put in Jail so Giovanni, after taking care of his brother, has returned to investigate the case. He stopped praying to God after his brother's death because he didn't understand why it happened, he knows God is their and has since finished finished school in Boston to become an Engineer and is staying here only to continue to help his family. He recognizes that many intelligent people do not believe in God but he could never deny the veracity of his existence- he once tried to explain to a professor how a pile of wood put on a foundation doesn't not establish itself after leaving it for 10 years and coming back to find a fully built home- there is always a creator.

"Now God who has made us, knows what we are an that our happiness is in HIm. Yet we will not seek in in HIm as long as He leaves us any other resort wherest (happiness) is even plausibly to be looked for. While what we call "our own life" remains aggreable we wil not surrend it to Him. What then an God do in our own interest bu make "our own life" less aggreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness." C.S. Lewis [ a quote from my scripture notes- i promise i'm not reading C.S. lewis...it's not in the missionary library :) ]

Giovanni knows you cannot find happiness in money or in what you have, and he is very interested in learning more about the church. He has tried other churches and has not felt included- but he knows he is looking for something and has not filled that emptiness. He is "golden" as we say it.

All is well here in Houston, Life is bliss and Sister Berg and I are loving the work. I'll let you know how Giovanni is doing. I wish I could write about everyone, Gloria, David and Araceli, Carlos, Yasmine, Leonardo, Maria Rivera, .....and many more. Amazing people who want to follow truth.

Jess