Franco, Matthew

Dear friends and family, Good Afternoon Everyone! This past week has been great! We baptized our friend Shanta! Her daughter, Tracy wants to be baptized next so we are going to teach her immediately! We met some new people as well who want to learn more of the Gospel as well! Their names are Arrol, Ameena, and Harry. They are super excited to learn more. We actually taught Arrol this week and it was super spiritual experience. We had a good sacrament service. The funny thing was that it lasted for two hours lol. So we didn't have a traditional second hour like usual but nevertheless it was a good service. We also had a funeral after church for one of friend's who sadly past away. It was a good service and I gave a talk about the plan of salvation and how God has plan for all of us and the peace it brings us.  Spiritual thought: I was studying general conference this week, preparing for the upcoming General conference! One of the talks I studied was by Elder Dunn, One Percent Be...

Dear friends and family, This week was fantastic! I'm also honestly not very good on telling you guys about baptisms lol, nevertheless we had a baptism. Aquema is this awesome little girl and we have been teaching her since February. She is part of a part member family and she went to her grandmother ( her grandma is Ethellene, who we are also teaching.) and says she wants to be baptized. We were told this in the middle of February and we were like heck yeah! So her journey began. And this past week she entered into the gate. Her family was there to support her and also the members.  Just a little update on my health, I went back to the doctor to get tests done. Last time I went, there was no test done, so I thought it would be good to know for sure if there is a parasite in me. The test came back and they were all negative, nothing in me. The doctor gave more medicine and I came away feeling good that I didn't have a parasitic alien in me so I'm in the clear for that one. ...

Dear friends and family, This past week was zone conference week! I was super excited to see President and Sister Lamprecht again and all the other Elders!  One big challenge I did run into though is that I wasn't feeling well this week and I had to go to the doctor. I had a problem with my digestion, specifically the restroom part where everything has to pass out. It didn't pass out for a time. I explained to the doctor my situation and he told me that it might parasite! I was kinda shocked because I tried my best to stay clean and have good clean areas but you never no, worms can go anywhere. He gave me some deworming medicine and said if it still a problem, to schedule an appointment with the gastenologist. Recently, it's slowly been improving.  Zone conference was fantastic though! All the Guyana Elders were there and President and Sister Lamprecht! The trainings that were given were very empowering and spiritual.  Spiritual thought: my Spiritual thought today comes f...

Dear family and friends, It's Monday again! It crazy to think about but never the less, it's been a good week. A few updates, our Apartment has no running water so me and Elder Sheffer are staying with the other linden Elders till we get our water back. We were told it was going to be four days by our landlord. We went back to grab our things and our neighbor told us it actually might be a week. But is been cool, four Elder apartments are really fun.  Spiritual thought: I was studying in the life help section in gospel library and learned how the church has a lot of resources to help people with addictions. I read this one story about a woman who got addicted to pornography and how when she turned to the lord she was completely healed when she use the saviors atonement. It also went along with a scripture That I read in 1 Nephi 4:35 " And it came to pass that Zoram did take courage at the words which I spake. Now Zoram was the name of the servant; and he promised that he w...