The Work Must Go On

Hi everyone!!!! I hope you all had an awesome week!


This week was a little different because Elder Reid and I both had immigration on different days. Butttt it was good nonetheless. I had to go Thursday at 3am and Elder Reid on Tuesday. 

So this week we made good progress with our friends that we are teaching! Saturday we met with Marcos and had an excellent lesson with him. We are really hoping that this weekend we can get him to church and hopefully have a baptism date to work towards! And on Saturday we also got to meet with a girl named Jamine. She's super interested and read the pamphlet. Like she studied it... haha she had answers to all the questions we asked about! The only thing is we have only had 2 lessons and both at her doorstep. But we also want her to come to church on Sunday! It's kinda hard with both of them because we can only meet with them on the weekends. So progress is a little slow. But its progress :)





Really funny story this week. So Elder Reid one morning said, "Hey let's go eat cereal on the roof." And I obviously loved that idea. So we went up to the roof. He followed behind me and when we got up there, he closed the door behind us!!!!  We didn't have the keys with us... and we were on the the top of our house... (btw it's just like another floor but with no roof, it's not like the houses in Canada haha). So we enjoyed our cereal and then proceeded to work on opening the door. We pried it open a little bit with some rebar and then used a nail to open it. It was really fun haha. 

I have been thinking a lot about miracles lately and what President Nelson has said about them. In one of His talks he talks about how the Lord uses the unlikely to accomplish the impossible. Think of all the scripture stories and how unlikely so many of the miracles were... yet they happened. My favorite example is the virgin Mary. Unlikely and the fact that she had a son was impossible. But through God and our faith in Him, anything is possible. But about my title... the work must go on even in the craziness of the world. The second coming is near and we have to keep the work moving forward, no matter how impossible it seems. 

I love you all!! Hope you have a good week. If you ever want to email me my email is 

Don't forget to pray! 

Elder Pilling


Elder Forrero




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