Feliz Dia de la Madre!!

First off, happy mother's day to all that are mother's and that are reading this.  You rock!

   This week wasn't too interesting to be honest,  We did help a family of the other missionaries get married, so that was a pretty cool experience to see them get married and right after get baptized.  It's awesome to see the desires that this family had to get married in order to be baptized.  It truly was a miracle and something very spiritual.

   I also got to see my family this week and to see them was a huge blessing.  To see that my Heavenly Father is blessing each and every one of them is things spiritually as much as in temporal things.  To be able to see my brother getting married in the temple next month, my sister and the love she has for the gospel, my mother and how happy she seems and the support she has for each and every one of her kids, and my dad and that he has a job to be able to support our family.  The Lord answers prayers and watches out for the families of missionaries as it says in D&C. I am a true witness of that.

   I love my family, I love this gospel, I love my calling as a missionary.

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-Elder Cheshire

Birthday Week!!!

Well, this week was definitely a blast!  Last week, the "Family Group" that we were attending turned into a branch!  And it's huge, there's over 90 or 100 people attending which is almost enough to be a ward.  It shouldn't be too long until they change that.

   They don't have teachers to teach Gospel Principles, so it's our job as Elders to teach it.  But it's actually pretty fun teaching.  But this week was my birthday and everything went pretty well.  The family that we eat lunch with bought me a cake and sang happy birthday in Spanish and English.  Which is really weird because everyone here in Bolivia knows how to sing "Happy Birthday"  in English but if I say "Hello, how are you?"  in English they look at me all weird.  It's pretty funny.  This week was Fast Sunday and I definitely was able to see my prayers answered.  I asked that we would be able to visit a family that is really awesome and have a lot of potential, Saturday night, and God helped us with that.  I asked if he would help our recent converts be able to come to church and they came.  WITH a friend investigating the church now.  The Lord knows our needs.  And at times they aren't things we NEED but he knows that if we receive these blessings, that it'll strengthen our faith.  My Heavenly Father strengthened my faith this week and I can't wait to have another week to share this love with others.  I hope you all have a great week and look for the blessings that you receive this week from your prayers.

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-Elder Cheshire

ANOTHER WEEK :')

Sorry that I don't have a lot of time to write, but I would like to share a small experience that happened this week.
   I had the opportunity to call one of my converts from my other area and I called to see how she was and to make sure she was still going to church and everything.  I asked her how she was and she was doing good. She then told me that she was actually returning home from a trip that she went on with the ward to Cochabamba to the temple.  I was so happy to hear that she had the opportunity to go to the temple and to experience that with the ward.  It's so awesome to be able to see the fruits of the work that we are doing.  I was soo happy and so thankful that she has been able to continue going to church and keeping the commandments.  There's no greater feeling than to know that someone that the Lord put in your path, is progressing so well.
   This work is the work of the Lord and has the power to change whatever person who is willing to do his or her part.

Pics:  We made t-shirts as a zone and they are so awesome!
         A couple pictures with my district
         A picture with Elder Lyell (Las Vegas, NV) when we had a companion exchange.
         And of course a picture with the grapes because they're very proud of their wine here in Tarija hahaha

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-Elder Cheshire