"And there was much rejoicing"

Hello friends and family! To address the title of this letter, I hope you remember the part in the movie classic "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" when they say that line. I refer to a change that was made in a general missionary broadcast: Now, we have 2 more hours in our preparation day (Sorry RM´s...) but ya, it´s Joya (as we´d say here) Well, one other point that I liked from the broadcast is that the Gospel of Jesus Christ (Faith, repentance, baptism,, receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost, and Enduring to the End) is all interconnected. I like that, because as it states many times in Doctrine and Covenants, we need to always be teaching repentance, but, for example,. as we increase our Faith, we increase our desire to repent. We increase our Faith by different commitments, such as reading the scriptures, praying, baptism (Do you see the pattern?) All things are interconnected.

I also wanted to share a funny moment of the week, I was walking down the street (Sporting my anti-sun/skin cancer sombrero as always) and a kid was looking at me kind´ve funny. I thought to myself, "What? have you never seen a Gringo with church attire and a sombrero before?" Probably not, but whatevs. Something that was awesome from this week was that a recent convert in the ward, José, gave a talk yesterday in church. He´s a quiet guy, but once he gets talking, he keeps going. He talked for about 25 minutes before the bishop told him to give his testimony and end. hahaha. One of the things I liked from his talk was that he said that we need to be "Full-time Latter-day Saints"... and it´s VERY true. We need to be constantly dedicated and improving, constantly living what we believe. We can´t afford to be just Sunday members that go to church and that´s it. We need to be constantly taking those little steps every day, because ultimately, it´s the constant little steps that climb mountains. 

So, stay constant brothers and sisters! Set goals, work at them , and climb. 

I love you all, Let us all press on.

Elder Holtry