milagros....

well this week was amazing!!! we had a great time in mendoza and amazing meetings with president and the assistants. again i was involved alot and asked alot about things and how i felt and what i would do. the assistants have alot of confidence in me and elder fowler and really want to know what we would do. now we both are some of the oldest zone leaders. almost everyone is new, and i would assume i will be dropping here in the next few months. but it is alot of fun. president lindahl gave a talk i will never forget in his closing remarks of the meeting and it was absolutly amazing. i was brought to tears and felt the spirit so strong!! he started off telling us all that we had to repent and ask god for forgiveness!!! he continued and explained that we have the power of god and have more power right now then what we ever will again in our lives! and told us stories about his mission when he felt so strong the priesthood power he knew if needed he could raise the dead. and some blessings he had given and the spiritual experiences he had. and i really related well, because i have had some of the most amazing moments in blessings of people here, that i know it was the power of god acting through me his servant. he continued and said we only can have that power through repentance, we need to be worthy for it. and told us how after the mission, life will get in the way and we will not have this same feeling of power. but that we need to, and by so doing is through repentance. that he gave his daughter a blessing when she was just a few months and said for her to be healed but it did not happen and he felt powerless he repented and did the blessing again and again nothing happened. three times repeating this process he finally was able to feel that power again and his daughter was healed and every word he said in the prayer 30 years ago has come to pass and she has not had those problems again like he promised. it was amazing. then he asked me to say the closing prayer. and it was very spiritual!! i trully felt the spirit and now that what he said is true, and that we have to power of god....

then in the week we worked and taught this lady and had a very spiritual lesson about how her daughter will be ok and made perfect at the resurrection. she has some mental problems and things and it was a great lesson. her son was investigating but wrongly accused of rape and sent to jail. in argentina it is you are guilty until proven innocent... so he went to jail and was expected to come back home in may or june around there. but on sunday we were in church and i had been praying for a miracle to happen for us cause we needed the help. and opening hymn, him and his whole family comes walking in with huge smiles on there faces and he started to cry. they sat down and he was so happy and felt so good. he cried and was so happy to be back. he was proven innocent saturday morning and released saturday night and the first thing he said was that the family was going to go to church. and they all came and stayed all three hours and he shared powerful testimony of prayer and scripture study he had in jail and cant wait to be baptized. that will be happening this month. he is awesome and dad you are right there still are more people for me to find and i know he is one of them and his family!

this weekend we also will be having 4 baptisms and we are very excited about that and the whole ward is happy and willing to help out. i am in such a great ward right now and everyone is doing such a great job in the missionary work it is awesome. i really do love it here in san luis. and am pretty sure next week at transfers i will stay here another and am hoping i will be here again with elder fowler. he is awesome and we are becoming best of friends.

along with the investigators we went to visit some of the recent converts and in actives to try to bring them back and help them. and i dunno what it was that day but everyone just decided to repent to us and confess to us about there sins in the law of chastity. it was wierd and rough to hear. but we were able to help alot of people and have some really spiritual lessons. it was tough to hear some of the problems that there were and just strengthened my testimony of the importance of church assistance and prayer. majority of the people fell for that reason they were not strong in those things. and now are cheating on spouses or with someone who has a family and stuff or have kids with multiple people and no one knows... it was crazy and i never will have any of that happen to me or in my family. i hope and pray atleast never to have that type of thing go on. it hurts just to see it and hear about it.

all in all it was a really good weekend and i was able to work with elder harvey and elder davis who were my mtc comps and are both ZL´s that was alot of fun. and it appears as though my whole group i came with will be going home early to get started on school. and i talked to president lindahl a little more and he really laid it on the line for me and explained things well for me and i am pretty sure i will be coming home a tad bit early now and get started on school at UVU and will be living in BYU housing with some guys from the mission. so unless anything changes in my prayers and such just plan on that and know that... i know you all support me in whatever and i am very grateful for that. i will need your help in this stuff to. it is still a ways off, but i will be starting to get things ready now.

i hope all is good i love you and miss you very much and hope you all have a great week. tell everyone hi for me. and dad si o si you need to get on sean about his homework. he cant just drop off like i did. keep on him and tell him that i am disappointed i expect more, and want more. haha have a good one. love you all

con amor
elder bigelow