A little updates everyone! This week we where finally able to baptise the family we married the last month! We where able to have a family home evening with a member last monday and we invited the family. They loved it and honelsty it was what motivated jose to get baptised this past saturday. Its been great to be able to work with our ward and see the changes in our investigators as they heard testimonies of the members. 

Wow! The mission is the best! Yesterday i was able to call cezar. We baptized him in December and he is doing so great. He told me is starting his mission papers and just when he said that i just felt on top of the world. I can tell you i have had some times in my life when i hit the buzzer beater in basketball or caught  monster fish and felt like nothing could beat these feelings. But hearing cezar doing so well and preparing to go just was a thousand times better then a buzzer beater or catching a 24 inch fish. I just love him! He is going to do great! 

Anyways this past week i was reading a story from the bible and i'm guessing you guys have all heard it but i love the message it has. The story is about Naaman and elisha. 2 kings 5 9-14

So naaman is a commander of the Syrian army and he had leprosy. Well this is a disease that as you all of us know can be deadly. Back then when the people had this disease they where like cast out and couldn't really associate with people that were healthy. Long story short naaman ends up going to Elisha who was a prophet. But when naaman get to his house Elisha sends out his maid to tell him to go and bathe 7 times in the Jordan river. When naaman heard that he was angry because he wanted Elisha to get rid of this sickness immediately. So naaman he is a little reluctant and doesn't know why he needs to wash himself in the dirtiest river. he ends up doing it and is healed.

So this can apply to us in different ways, one is faith and the other is following the words of the prophets. We are so blessed to have a prophet today who truly receives revelation from god. We are given advice through prophets and i hope we can all have the faith to go in other words running towards the water of Jordan and jump in and wash up. As we follow the words of the prophets today we will always know the way. I would hope that all of will not be reluctant to the words of our beloved prophets like naaman was. Sometimes we don't understand the reasons for why we do the things we do but its always for a reason. We should skip the reluctant part, put our  trust in the prophets, and act to show our faith immediately. 

Elder Cleverley!

Hey everyone this past week i was reading some other talks from the past general conference and i just want to briefly touch on one of the talks that i read. the talk is called ´´perfect love casteth out fear´´ This talk talks about how we in this life often do things out of fear. President Uchtdorf talked about how fear has been the way to get people to do things. For example people with advertisements. they always put the idea that if you don't buy their product you're missing out in life. And its true we live in a world where we do things out of fear! But this is not ok!  If we do things out of fear it will not help us change change our hearts and it will not will not help us to feel the right things. As president uchtdorf said we should cast out fear with Christs perfect love. Then with Christs love we can replace fear with faith. 

I received a letter this past week from some that i love dearly and look up to in so many different ways that says ´´ .choose your friends with caution; .plan your future with purpose and frame you life with faith.´´ Wow! What a powerful quote! I know as we surround ourselves with people that bring us to Christ, and plan our lives by setting goals and make plans to meet these goals, and set fear aside and frame our life with faith we can accomplish all things. As we have patience, humility, and charity we are framing our lives with faith. We will feel Christ perfect love by doing these things which will bring feeling of joy, peace, and love. May we all cast our fear and replace it with faith which will help us to become better disciples of Jesus Christ. 

Elder Cleverley.