Letter #41

 

Temple trip! (Super good lighting)
Paintballing!
It was a dope sunrise!😅

Hey, como estan todos?? Sorry for the radio silence the past couple of weeks, but I'm here again!! It's been crazy busy, heres a couple highlights:

About the title... let's just say I might have just discovered the secret to losing lots of weight in just a week! Its just 3 steps:
   1. Get sick from suspicious food
   2. Think you're already better and wake up at 3 to hike and see a sunrise (the sunrise was fire though)
   3. "There is no step 3! It's that easy" (see if you can guess the movie)

Soooo let's just say I might have had a 102 fever one day and a 2 day gatorade fast this past week, I've slimmed right down😂. It's all good though, doing better now!! It's made me really grateful for good health, it's only the 2nd time I've been badly sick in the whole mission, and there's a lot of people that have it worse off than I do, so we're chilling.

Apart of that, in the zone and our area we've had an amazing 2 weeks though!! Last week, we broke all of our records in new people and lessons with members, and we have 8 people on date to be baptized in our area! The Lord is hastening His work, He is very involved! 

We were able to take a recent convert to the temple for the first time, it was amazing and super spiritual!!

We also had 8 friends in church this past week, including a guy named Manuel; this guy has come the past 2 weeks, and it's hilarious/frustrating. Last week, he called us at 9 (the meeting started at 8:30) and said he was lost, so we left and brought him. This week, he calls us right at 9 again (the meeting still starts at 8:30) and asked when the meeting started😂🤦‍♂️. The important thing is he came though!!

I'm about to hit 18 months as a missionary... don't know how I feel about that one😅

Also ran some intercambios with Elder Williams and Elder Mortensen from District 5G, they were a blast, love those guys!!

As for a spiritual thought, something that has stood out to me recently is the power of covenants. We can literally make a promise with our Father in Heaven. A promise that He can't break. I'm excited to study the Old Testament this year, it's a record of the covenant God made with His covenant people. President Nelson said:

"Once we make a covenant with God, we leave neutral ground forever. God will not abandon His relationship with those who have forged such a bond with Him. In fact, all those who have made a covenant with God have access to a special kind of love and mercy."

I testify of this!! We can obtain this love and mercy, and make the same covenant with God that He made with people like Abraham and Israel in the Old Testament; how insane is that?!?

That's about it though!! There's a thousand other little stories, but I'll fut it off there, sorry it was a little long!! Hope you all have a great week, let me know how 2026 is treating you!!

Nos vemos!!

Elder Bagley 

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