Elder Jakob Lutze: Semana 90 (Banana Fever)

Buenas!!

Happy Mothers Day to all you moms! Moms are absolutely amazing! And I'm especially grateful for my mother! She has done more for me than anyone else ever will! Besides Jesus, of course.

This week was good! We had our Zone Conference which was really fun! Super spiritual!

On the way back home one of the Elders 'lost his dinner.' By that I mean that the bus is super fast through a ton of switchbacks. So if you don't have a strong stomach, anything you ate before the ride is coming right back up! It's kind of like a roller coaster.

Had exchanges with the APs. That was super fun! My dear friend Elder Tarbet is finishing his mission. My last exchange I'll ever have with him.

Ismael, our recent convert, decided to follow us around for the day. He is a funny kid! He kept saying that he wants me to be his dad. He also told us a story of how he and a kid at school made a bet of who Mormon was. And Ismael walked away with 5 dollars

Friday Elder Ence was really sick, so we had to stay home.

Saturday he was still really sick, so we stayed home again.

Those two days were tough! I was so bored! My body was agitated from not walking around outside. One might say I quite literally went Bananas. I also realized how much I love being outside and in the sun! I did finish two books tho!

Sunday we had church. We were really praying for some miracles here, because we didn't work for two days in a row. And God certainly answered our prayers! 6 of our friends came to church! There were also over 50 people at church! The little house was packed! It was so full that we literally had people outside!

It was pretty funny too, because the day we had a ton of people, there was no electricity. This meant that everyone was sweating buckets! But who cares! It was awesome!

Now for the really exciting news! Drum roll please! **

Las 30 is becoming a branch!!!! LETS GOOOOO!! I'm so excited! The papers have already been submitted to Salt Lake City! Pretty soon this group will be a branch! And its new name will be "La Esperanza." So cool! God really is hastening His work!

As for my spiritual thought, I want to talk about the influence of mothers. Because they really are amazing! In the Book of Mormon, one of my favorite stories is of the Stripling Warriors. How did they receive so much strength? Here is what we read:

"Now they never had fought, yet they did not fear death; and they did think more upon the liberty of their fathers than they did upon their lives; yea, they had been taught by their mothers, that if they did not doubt, God would deliver them.

And they rehearsed unto me the words of their mothers, saying: We do not doubt our mothers knew it."

I love that so much! They were so influenced by their mothers, that it caused them to have an extreme amount of faith in the Lord. So much faith, that even though they had never fought in their lives, the Lord delivered them in their battles. I just want to say Amen and Hallelujah for mothers!! There is no greater faith that exists than the faith of our mothers!

Love y'all lots! Keep praying for my Zone and my people! Until Next Week!

- E. Lutze