September 23, 2013

Buenas Tardes querida familia,

   Wow where to even begin, I am so in complete ahh for your wonderful letters and videos! It truly made my birthday for me to hear from you guys and see your wonderful smiles, faces, and funny videos. HAha! Jacob and erick you guys are amazing. I laughed so hard when I watched jacob, james and spencer riding in the back of the car, being tickled by jacob to a funny song. HAha!! You guys are the best. 

   And wow I am speechless, jessie and josh. Your video you sent was so wonderful and it filled me with so much joy to hear that I am going to be a uncle that is (in-famous, ¨the three amigos¨) with westen grant boyd. I am so exicted for you to and to see my wonderful and bright nephew in about 6 months. Wow weird to think about. Thank you josh and jessie so much for your email, its always so wonderful to see how jessie and josh and the whole gang are doing. 

   I just love you guys so much, and it feels me with such great joy to see the progress of everyone, dad, mom, the boys, grandma and josh and jessies and to see how much josh and jessie are in love. What a wonderful family we have.

   Well work in the wonderful vineyard has been extraordinario. I don´t remember if I told you guys but I am still in my wonderful area of lamlaya in puerto cabezas, but I am now on my thrid companion in this area Elder Thomas. He is a amazing missionary as well, and we are just having the greatest time ofour lives each day working as hard as we can to the end. He is from idaho but his family just moved to utah, and he is  finishing up his mission this next change. After this change I will have completed 7 months in this area of lamlaya and I hope I will be given the chance to have more time working in this area. 

   It is been such a amazing to see such wonderful growth and the hand of the lord in the lives of these wonderful amazing people. This past sunday we had district conference and it was amazing to see 3 of my recent converts prepare and recieve the melquesidic priesthood. Ossmar the wonderful recent convert of me and Elder Reeve also was among the 40 melquesidec preisthood holders to recieve this priesthood. After the ordantion we took a picture together and I gave him the biggest hug and he looked so happy and exicted to have this priesthood and help serve the lord with his power and authority. He also brought to the conference 4 investigadores that we will be now working with and when we talked with them they said they loved it so much and felt something within them glow while they were there. Ossmar has invited them to be baptised and they wanted to do it this week but we told them we needed to visit with them and teach them some lessons and that we could help prepare them for a date of baptism. 

   It was incredible!!! the lord is so incredible and it is truly him that has done all this work. The lord has brought into the hearts of the memebers the exictment of the work. And through the lord and the work of the memebers, we were blessed to see a wonderful family oscar and fransisca enter into the waters of baptism this past tuesday night. They are a miracle family, as we call it, becuase we found them thourgh a couple of recent converts and the second we meet them we could feel something different. They began to study the book of mormon and for three weeks we worked with them towards this baptismal date. They are amazing and I will send pictures of them next week. 

   Also this past week as we were contacting in our area we ran into a house that had two pet monkeys. It was funny expierence becuase through these monkeys we found two new families to teach. haha! we first were lead to contact them because we saw the monkeys outside there house at first, and me and my companion looked at each other and said we should contact that house. we got talking with them and found that they were postive. we invited them to come to church with us this past sunday and they excepted to come. These two families went to church along with another 5 families, 18 investigadores in all that were able to visit the district conference. It was truly miracle after miracle this past week. 

   I am so grateful to all that you guys do for me and for all your prayers and letters. I am so proud of you guys for your example for me. Way to go dad!! It is always a exicting feeling to see those whom you have encountered and became freinds with enter into the sacered waters of baptism. I know that this is the true gospel of jesus christ and that the book of mormon is true. My highlight this week was reading each morning from its pages. This week I found my self reading in the book of mormon 3 nephi when the savior came to the americas. The lord is such a great teacher through his example and love towards all people. I am so grateful for his love for us and for helping you guys be lead to those who are ready and prepared by god. I know that richardo and his family where one of those that were prepared from god. I know richardo that the lord knows and loves you personally. that Through prayer you can always recieve a confermation that these things our true, that the book of mormon was translated by the power of god through his prophet joseph smith. As I read from its pages I can´t help but always feel better and good inside and that feel is the holy ghost. And just like the promise in moroni 10:3-5 says that all those who ask shall recieve and who knock it shall be opened unto them. In the name of jesus christ. Amen.

Elder Boyd