2/13/12

Well, my time here in philly is up! its sad to say, but i am out! we

finished off the transfer and our 6 months together with 3 baptisms

yesterday that went great! president came with his wife and it was a

great service!! of the 14 converts we have here, all 14 are active and

almost all of the adults have callings!! i am so greatful for the love

i share with these people here in philly. they were all in tears

yesterday when i broke the news, and it was just a mess! i hate

leaving area because it like leaving home otra vez. it so hard to do

that, but the lord knows why and i know that there are other people

that need me somewhere else and i need to learn more things from them!

i am so blessed, and will really miss it here!

this week was filled with baptismal interviews, district meeting

dentist for my comp, and a ton of teaching! we have seriously been on

fire! our mision has been focusing on referencias pedidas and we have

seen the blessing from asking those from people! we have 5 new

investigators, 5 people that will be baptized this next transfer and

there are others now in the making! this cycle that we have hit here

is increible!

yesterday we had stake conference, and i can be honest, for some

reason i cannot focus in english, and it has been a real problem the

past month! i am honestly forgetting my english. obviously it doesnt

show in my emails, but in person, when i talk or listen, my mind

doesnt understand, and i have talked to a couple of people and they

say that is happens when you dont speak it or think it. its scary!

haha, i shouldknow this!!! anyways, i know that the lord has a good

place for me in another part of the mission, i feel that i did what i

was supposed to do here, and have no regrets! i know that i am leaving

for a reason, and its giong to be duro, but i know its what needs to

happen. we will have a huge FHE tonight with all the ward, haha they

are making it like a despedida for me, so it will be sad, but i will

never forget what we did here :) the lord is good, he lives, and he

loves us! dont ever forget that!!

Elder Gallego

2/6/12

HEY!!! HOLA!!

man! this week sure did fly by! this is the last week of the transfer,

and i think im going to stay...yeah! that will make almost a year

here!! so crazy!! but the cool thing is that there is still more work

here, and we are just in a groove with the lord! he is the bomb!

so this week, we had a great family home evening on the plan of

salvacion and how it is so important for us to realize that satan has

no part in the plan...he cant help us get saved right?! its cool

because in the back of the scriptures, the actual plan of salvacion

consists of the creation, the fall, the atonement, and the laws

ordinances and doctrines that god has given us. now my point in that

is to let you see that not one name of any person is mentioned...in

other words, yes god knew who was going to do what, and all that...but

if that wouldve changed, the plan itself still would have been carried

out! and satan has no part in it! of course he helps us learn by

making us sin, so he has nothing to do with our salvacion! we have to

realize that only jesucristo can help us. satan wont. he fell because

he knew not the mind of god the father! just thought that would be

something cool to share!

this week i also got to go on an exchange with one of the zone

leaders, it was good, i learn a lot from them and they also help me

with the things i am struggling! we really had a fun time, and elder

perkins reminds me of my bro in law trevor! looks, talks and acts just

like him! it kills me!!

as we were teaching Jorge lopez, the friend of elvys and noe who are

just on fire, he told us that he wanted to be baptized on the 12 de

febrero!! it was such a shock because heck, just a month ago yesterday

we got to know him and it was a cool experience as we see the change

that he is making to be good with god, and follow the example of

jesucristo and be baptized for the remission of sins! he will be such

a strong member, and with the examples of elvys and noe right now, man

they are all just on fire!!

this week we will be baptizing Victor, Vivian, Jorge (noe will be

doing that!) and the two fransiscos perez! it will be a great

baptismal service right after our stake conference on sunday, and they

have asked me to do the translating from english to spanish again!

haha except this time i will have a copy of the talks so i dont think

ill do so bad :) it will be fun!!

we need prayers for nancy and fransisco borrero that the lord will

help them decide to be baptized! nancy to stop smoking and fransisco

to let go of his fear and just do it! he is so ready and he always

says it, he is just scared to fall, and so we need the prayers so that

he can make the correct decision! also, we had futbol on friday, and

it went great!! there were a lot of people, and it is a great

activity! one of our ivestigators actually brought his buddy yesterday

to church!! they are awesome! so we are going to see him this week to

see what up! he is really excited and said that he loved church! his

name is fernando!

other than all that, life is just crazy! i love it though, to be busy

is to be doing what the lord asks! and especially when you feel peace,

something that satan cant allow you to feel! cool stuff. this church

is the only way, it is the only way. he lives and i know that he loves

us! share the gospel with all that you know! they are all looking for

it and they seriously all want what we have! True and eternal

happiness!! Its all about love!

Elder Gallego

1/30/12

HOLA BANDITA!!!

this week just flew by! i cant believe it is already monday again, i

definetely made the most of my time this week, my personal studies

went great!! we as a companionship are doing great! we have 8 baptisms

coming on the 12th to finish the transfer, so we will be super busy

this week with interviews and then exchanges, district meeting that i

havent even thought about until now, so much to do and not enough

time!! i just noticed, i use a ton of exclamation points in my emails,

it comes from the spanish. cool fact, when you speak spanish, you use

your face a lot, well at least i do, and you kind of almost yell but

not really, so it comes out in my english that is barely even

understandable now and it is hilarious!

so this week, we finally got fransisco perez/chut padre e hijo to

commit to be baptized on the 12th! also we got nancy to commit to  be

baptized that same day! she is the wife of ruben pascual, he was

baptized the week before i came into this area with elder cook and de

leon! nancy is having problemas with stop smoking and we are really

praying hard for her to stop! she has to yesterday, and so lets hope

she did! we were able to give her a blessing to help her and the

spirit was really stong and i know that nancy can do it, now its just

a matter of her doing it! pray for her please!

we were also able to give john a blessing on monday night, he has had

really bad migranes his whole life and that night he was in so much

pain he couldnt move! so we gave him a blessing and in the blessing i

commanded him to be healed accoring to his faith, and wow the feeling

that came into the room put us to tears!! john was healed!! it was a

great miracle and a powerful testimony of the priesthood and faith!

its all about love and our father in heaven is full of it!

yesterday, we learned about our capacity. god is real, he knows

everything. we are real, but we dont know everything. He is the one we

have to go to in order to learn, to grow, and to become who he is! if

we dont, we are wasting his time that he has given us to be here, its

only a short period of time, so we have to ask in prayer that he help

us know and understand the things we need to do. our capacity to learn

and understand will grow, i know from experience and i know that as we

put our trust in him he will help us! he is obligated to do it!

i know that this church, is the way. the only way. listen to the

profeta, follow the commandments, his teachings, and live the way that

cristo would live. service, love and charity! is it hard, no. its as

hard as we think. confidence trust and true humility are what will

help us! god has given us the capacity to learn, to think and to act.

we cant sit back and say oh god will take care of me...he wont. we

have to act in order for him to act. he wants to take care of us, as

long as we take care of the things he asks us to! i love learning, go

on a mision if you hav thoughts! you will never regret it! it is the

best work!! love you all!!

Elder Gallego