December 9, 2103

Haha Dad I am happy to report that heaven is very close and my only goal is to get a little Closer Everyday! WOW as well you just keep helping the missionaries and remember january 4 is alot of time! (more time you wait, the more time you give satan to work) they are being obedient to the guidelines of the "first 12 weeks" a program that you use for training new missionaries. (I am training a New Missionary "greeny") ha that is what training is. It states that you should mark a baptismal date in the first visit so they are doing great! support them and continually pray that the spirit may be upon them!  Oh spencer and Kellie I received your package 2 weeks ago! Thank thank thank you bundles! And my heath is great!

after this week I am dead. ha we worked worked worked worked!  I feel like I returned to new york, but this time I don't have a car! haha This week was just full of miracles! I cannot deny that this is the Lord's work! How grateful I am that we are a part of it! Yesterday we baptized Marina and Ia her daughter! It was very difficult with them but In our last lesson we had recent converts with us and I felt the spirit with great power in the lesson! It was amazing experience! We also had stake conference and we were able to go to the adult session because the first Presidency asked all missionaries to go! so we all went and was I in for a little suprize! So the stake president called all the missionaries up to and we all said our names and where we were from. I was the last to say my name but when I finished, the stake president said, "alright now you and I will give a talk" haha so he wanted me to relate the Story of elder Olmos, less active for four years and then returned and went right into the field. I will never forget this experience! As I began to speak, I almost felt like the hand of God was on my shoulder. Wow I knew that the lord Was using me as an instrument in his hands! I am grateful for this experience. It reiterates that I really am nothing without the spirit! But with these two experiences, I know that as we permit the spirit to use us as a channel, the Hand of God can be outstreched to all. May we be worthy of this sacred gift so that we can feel closer to heaven. May we remember and keep Our covenants!!!! If you are not doing so, abandon whatever it blocking the blessings and put the covenants you have made at priority number one! I found a verse in enos that I liked a lot! 17And I, Enos, aknew it would be according to the covenant which he (the Lord) had made; wherefore my soul did rest.  
If we are keeping our covenants regardless of anything else, our souls can be at peace. love you all FOREVER (this is possible through our covenants)

Elder Bell