eMail of August 3, 2009

Well it looks like you have all had a busy time. I hope everyone is enjoying everything as well. I am glad to hear that Sean was able to baptise and confirm both Lauren and Hayden. That will be a great blessing to the whole family. I feel that we have all been blessed in these times. I hope that you have had a fun trip to Alaska as well. I´m sure it is amazingly bueatiful.

Here I am having fun, growing and learning almost too much and learning the power of faith and the Spirit. He has provided everything we need in this life for us, all we need to do is do as He asks, and then ask. I am trying to put into practice those principles that the scriptures teach about faith and prayer a lot more than I did before.

As for our investigators Valentina that is 10 should be baptised this Sunday and then there are several more we hope to follow. I would tell you more stories but, all I can really think about is what we are going to do to get them all baptised, and thats the story that comes after that really counts.

I understand a whole lot better the purpose in Preach My Gospel. It is very literally our purpose in every sense of the word. We are here to baptise the world
by water and by fire and the Holy Ghost to prepare the way for the Second Coming. We do that by following the principles of the gospel ourselves and then helping others to do the same. A truly succesful missionary lives the gospel in his every day life, and helps others to live it as well. Faith is where everything starts.

Thank you everyone for your prayers. They have helped me a lot to be strong and not slacken. I am grateful to be here and doing my best to bring about this great work. The thing is that I know that truly I am nothing. I can´t really do anything, He does it. Really I´m just along here for the ride to watch Him do His work so that one day I can do it too. Well thank you for everything and I hope and pray that you are all well.

Elder Skiles