Transfer 5. Week 6. July 23, 2012

We got transfer calls saturday and the Lord has decided................(drum roll)...........................That Elder Mares and I should stay in Half Moon Bay.  How grateful I am that the Lord has placed me in the coldest part of the mission for the summer.  Elder Mares and I have decided to go to the vey bottom of our area and to take a picture of the Mission boundary.    This week was super hard, mainly cause we did a whole lot of nothing.  Our District Leader was on exchanges with Elder Mares.  Elder Mares was backing him out (but he decided to stand in the blind spot) and Elder Mares' knee got pinned between two cars.  He called Hermana Olvera, the mission nurse.  She has told him to do nothing.  We are not allowed to leave the apartment.  Which means we can't really do missionary work.  We are going to Berkely on Wednesday so the doctors can look at his knee.  Until then we are pretty bored.    In the mean time, our investigator has to live the word of wisdom by saturday to be baptized on her scheduled baptismal date.  Unfortunately she is still smoking 8-10 ciggarettes per day.  We are praying for a miracle.    This week I finished reading the Book of Mormon.  I decided to take the suggestion of Preach My Gospel and pray to have my testimony of the Book of Mormon strengthed.  I know that God speaks in our day and that he has once again called a prophet to guide his church.  I know that Prophet is President Thomas S. Monson and that he holds the same priesthood that the Apostles of  old held.  I know that it is by the Prophet Joseph Smith that the Lord's Kingdom has been restored.  I know that God loves ME and I know these things because I know the Book of Mormon is true.   Read the Book of Mormon, it will you bring closer to God than any other book.   Sincerely,   Elder Luis Gonzalez