4.20.15 - Que es una enchilada sin la tortilla?

In our attempts to be even more comprehensive in our teaching to the least educated parts of San Antonio i may or may not have taken a step too far in over simplifying the doctrine. When teaching baptism it was not being grasped that baptism was not baptism if not done be God's priesthood authority. Explanations didn't cut it, scriptures and pictures got us close, and finally i just said, "What's in an enchilada?" well there's tortilla cheese and salsa, "and if you make an enchilada without a tortilla what's left? an enchilada?" Well no that's just cheese with salsa on it. So that's like baptism without god's priesthood. ohhh, ok. "Great, let's move on." I'll try and work on a more scriptural approach before I make that my standard.

Elder Christensen is an excellent companion. He's been out a transfer longer than me, and will go home after just 2 more so He can be ready to start up his junior year at Westpoint. He's very smart, and very hard working. He was just assigned to serve as a Zone Leader but it doesn't really seem like I need to train him on how to do anything other than the small procedural chores we take care of each week.

I was on a 3 day exchange with elder hill after we'd dropped Elder Scott off to go head home and that kept us busy working our 2 wards together.

I don't know if I've told you very much about the Herrera family yet. they came to church after an invitation on the street a month ago and haven't missed a Sunday yet. They said they're committed to stay in the church, but are hesitant to set a baptismal date. They finally stayed for the first 3 hours yesterday, and Bro. Hilario taught a powerful elders quorum lesson on how relying on the word of god from the scriptures offers you spiritual power to provide for the needs of your family. We're hoping that kicked Lorenzo into gear so he can continue past the first few chapters of Nephi. They were pretty ready to accept the Word of Wisdom, we'll need to follow up this week to see if they actually threw out their coffee, and I just realized they wrote down on the Sunday School attendance their names with different last names so i'm really hoping the law of chastity doesn't turn into a big fiasco like it sometimes does. They don't get along all of the time as is.

Aside from that Drama, we've been blessed to find a few other great families that seem like they're really prepared. It's never a bad day when in the serve of the Lord.

I love you very much!
thank you for your support!

Be Salty!

Elder Tyler Meidell