THE LAST LETTER

Hola Familia!!!

Well everyone, this is the last letter that I will be writing you guys from Colombia. I can’t beleive this is my last week in the mission. It has been an awesome experience, one that I will treasure for the rest of my life. I can’t thank you guys enough for all that you’ve done to help me with your love and support. My testimony has truly grown. This is Christ´s Church. I’ve seen the Lord’s hand in my mission. He has truly changed so many peoples’ lives and in the process has changed mine forever. I know that Joseph Smith was a prophet and that the Book of Mormon is the word of God. I know that families can be together forever. And I know that we have a living prophet on the earth today. I’m greatful for the Priesthood. I know that acting under it, the Lord has blessed many people. I love you guys so much. I can’t wait to see you next week. Everyone is invited to my homecoming next Sunday!!  I am going to go out and find some more people to teach now!

Les quiero mucho!

Elder Dahlin

May 2014 Letters

May 5th, 2014

Hola Familia!!!

How are you guys doing!!? This week was pretty good, we are finding more people to teach. Church attendence is going down though, there doesn’t seem to be much help from the members. Our branch president is a good guy and he is working really hard. He doesn’t have much support from the other branch leaders so we are trying to help him out lightening his load. We did a talent show on Friday that went really well.  They made me dance salsa and we did a Mexican soap opera haha. I’m excited for all the work that we have to do here we just have to figure out how to do it effectively. A lot of times all our appointments fall through which sucks. Hopefully this week we´ll be able to do a little bit better. I love you guys so much!!

Elder Dahlin


May 12th, 2014

Hola Familia!!

Happy Mother’s Day!! It was awesome talking to you guys yesterday. The highlight of the week was that the family I was teaching in my last area here in Cali finally got married last Friday and I was able to go to the baptism and baptize the wife. I was so happy. I didn’t think I was going to be able to see it. It was a big lesson on patience, we really are on the Lords time table, but if we are patient he will bless us. I can’t beleive I only have 3 more weeks left, I can’t wait to see you guys in person!! I love you soo much!!

Elder Dahlin 

April 2014 Letters

Jason comes home in a MONTH from TOMORROW! What the heck! Where has the time gone?!

April 14, 2014

Hola Familia!!

Sorry I didn’t write last week, there wasn’t anything interesting that happened and I didn’t want the letter to be boring haha. Things are going good in this little town. It’s really hard actually for the missionary work here. The people here are really Catholic. Several people this week that we were teaching told us that they were born Catholic and will die Catholic. The Catholics actually do their home teaching here and steal the Books of Mormon that we give out...haha.  The thing that keeps this town running is a big Nestle factory. If you work there you’re rich. In the afternoon the whole town smells like coffee, it actually smells really good haha. One lady told us how do you expect me to stop drinking coffee when this smell comes right into my house. We didn’t have anyone at church again, that’s hurting us. My companion situation is pretty crappy. He works at his pace (very slow) and has to get his way with everything. If you want to do something that he doesn’t like he´ll get really upset. We live with the zone leaders and the other Latin that is with Elder Chase from my group is worse than my companion. He’s the biggest D-bag I’ve ever met haha. The zone is really hurting because there isn’t anyone to set the example and everyone is super disobedient. Transfers are next week, just keep praying for me haha.  Even with all the challenges I love what I am doing.  This mission has been an amazing experience.  I have learned so much.  I only have 6 weeks left to get it all done and then I’m home!! Everyone’s invited to the airport haha.

I love you guys sooo much!!

Elder Dahlin

April 21, 2014

Hola Familia!!

Happy Easter!! Colombia´s Easter is a little different. They call it Semana Santa(holy week) and only the Catholic church takes part in it. They do parades with all the statues they worship and have a lot of church services. I have a cool story that really shows the importance of the atonement, so we went around sharing it with everyone, it was pretty cool. Well, transfers are on Wednesday and I’m getting sent back to Cali. Right now there are 4 missionaries in Bugalagrande (current area) but now they are only keeping 2 and putting 4 in Andalucia, the other half of the branch. I’m bummed I’m being transferred because we finally have good investigators! We had 2 families at church yesterday that are perfect. They are married, have kids, and are really open to the gospel.  My new area I’m going to is called San Fernando, it’s the only branch in Cali. My new companion is Elder Chavez, he’s from Mexico. I can’t beleive it’s my last transfer haha I love you guys soo much!!

Elder Dahlin


April 28, 2014

Hola Familia!!

How are you guys doing!? My new area is cool and it’s really big. My new companion is good too, he’s a funny guy. We don’t have any investigators really so we are going to get to know all the members and start from there. The office elders are in the same branch too but they only work in the evenings. I feel more and more the desire to work fast and work hard. It’s challenging getting to an area without anything, it takes a while to get things going. The goal is to baptize and get less actives back to church. Sorry there isn’t anything interesting this week, maybe I’ll get robbed or something haha.

Love you guys!!

Elder dahlin 

 

March 2014 Letters

Jason was transferred to a new area called Bugalagrande, where he will most likely finish out the rest of his mission :) Also, he's getting a little lazy and isn't writing a family email as often.... punk!

March 3, 2014

Hola Familia!!!

How are you guys doing?! 3 months from now I’ll be home haha I can’t believe it!  This mission has gone by way too fast. Things are going ok here in Versalles.  A bit challenging at times. We have lost a good amount of investigators for some reason or another. They either aren’t married or they have moved or someone started talking bad about the church. We only had 3 investigators at church yesterday, it was tough. It’s hard to be in an area for 6 months, I’ve walked the same streets and seen the same people, I don’t know where to go now haha. We worked with the ward and earned money for those members that live in Yumbo so that they can go to church, we are pretty excited. On Friday I found out that the elderly lady that we gave a blessing to in Yumbo last month died. That was a wonderful experience when the Lord directed us to go visit her.  I love the Plan of Salvation, I’ve really come to understand all the moving pieces at it’s great being able to explain to people that families really can be together forever. Transfers are next week, we´ll see what happens. I’d really like to train a new missionary but who knows whats going to happen. I love you guys sooo much, remember that my birthday is coming up in like 8 days!! ;)

Les quiero mucho!!

Elder Dahlin

March 17, 2014

Hola Familia!!

How are you guys doing!? Well transfers were last week and they are always crazy. My new area (Bugalagrande) is pretty cool,  it’s really small, only about 25,000 people live here. It’s really quiet and it’s not dangerous at all, imagine that!! :D haha It’s really green and there is a river that passes right through the middle of town.  It’s actually hotter here than in Cali. The nice thing is that it’s windy which makes it feel better.  We saw a dead horse today which made me sad haha. The biggest thing in town is the Nestle factory. If you work there you are rich, if you don’t you’re poor. For missionary work it’s a tough area. The missionaries before us didn’t leave anything and the people don’t really seem like they want to talk to us. Pray for the people here please! My companion is going to be tough. He’s the guy that looks for any way to waste time and he always has to be right. Hopefully it’s just for one transfer.  We are in another house that is used for a church and it’s sooo small. Where they do sacrament meeting is like as big as my room.  Pretty humble conditions. The branch president is cool but he is tired of being branch president because the branch isn’t doing too good.  So we have a lot of work to do with the members here. I was sick again last week with another sinus infection. I’m taking antibiotics again. I didnt have a voice for like 3 days.  Leaving Cali was tough. It was hard saying goodbye to all the people in my old area, they are like my family here but I know I’ll see them again. I love you guys sooo much. I can’t beleive how far I’ve come. I’ve seen my testimony grow so much and I know that this is the true church. I can’t wait to get back to see you guys!

Con mucho amor

Elder Dahlin

March 24, 2014

Hola Familia!!

What’s up?!!! Well this was another challenging week, we didn’t have any investigators at church again.  We will keep working on that. I got to know more members yesterday which was cool. I had to speak in Sacrament meeting with a couple other missionaries and it went really well.  They said it was one of the most spiritual sacrament meetings they’ve had in a while. The thing that makes it a bit challenging is that this branch includes 2 towns. Andalucia and Bugalagrande. The branch is called Andalucia and the majority of the members live in Andalucia. To get to church people have to take a bus or a taxi which is 1000 pesos( like 50 cents) round trip 2000. It’s like a 15 minute ride. That’s one of the problems. Noone ever has money or says it’s too far. I got the roster with all the members on it so this week we are going to go look for less actives.  I’m really excited about that. The area presidency changed some of the requisites for baptism. Before it was that an investigator only had to go to church 2 times and they could get baptized. But to make sure that there is real growth, kids from 8-12 years that don’t have a family member to support them in the church have to go to church at least 9 times before they can get baptized and everyone else has to go at least 3 times. It’s gonna take a hit on the mission and its gonna make us have to plan more because each month only has 4 to 5 weeks in it. Crazy stuff haha. Not too much else, my companion is making things dificult but you just have to pull your load and hope that the Lord will help you.  

I love a scripture that Megan sent me that I had forgotten about. 1 Nephi 21: 14-16.  It’s truly amazing how much He loves us and how much He did for us.

I love you guys soo much. 10 more weeks!!! (I’m not counting, dad is...haha)

Les quiero mucho

Elder dahlin

February 2014 Letters

JASON IS COMING HOME JUNE 3RD!!!!

February 3, 2014

Hola Familia!!

How are you doing?!! I’m really sad that the Broncos lost. A member in the local ward here called me last night and said “Elder Dahlin I’m not sure if this is a good thing or not but it says that the Seahawks have 43 and the Broncos have 8”..........haha. The good news is that Peyton is the MVP. This week was good we have a lot of people going to church right now, we should have a good month. My new comp is awesome, he’s a cool guy. He has the same time in the mission as I do. The zone is looking good too each month, we are getting better and better. 

The sad part of the letter is that Jose Aragon, the old guy that lost his wife, doesn’t want anything to do with us. About 2 weeks ago we called him and he said that he was getting a treatment in the hospital and that he was going to be gone for 2 months. On Tuesday we went to see if he was home and when we knocked we heard someone inside but no one opened the door. We knocked and knocked but no one came. There is a hole in his door so we looked through and my comp saw shoes move under the bed. We opened the door from the inside and when we walked in we saw him trying to hide under the bed. We asked him what was wrong and he said ¨I dont know you people, why did you take my wife, why did you kidnap her.¨ When we came in we saw that he had a Jehova´s Witness bible and a bunch of their pamphlets on his table. The family had told him that we were the reason that his wife died and now he doesn’t talk to us anyone. His son that got baptized is the same way and he didn’t show up to get confirmed. I was really sad. The opposition is strong here, a lot of religions are out to do bad.  We are not going to give up on him and we will have the members keep visiting.

The crazy cool part is that on Wednesday we got robbed haha I was talking on the phone and two 20 year old punks came out of nowhere, put their arms around our shoulders and said that they had guns and that we needed to give them everything. They only took 10.000 pesos which is like 5 bucks becuase people started passing by, but it was pretty nuts haha.  Just another day in Colombia : )

I love you guys so much!! Thanks for all that you do!!:)

Con mucho amor

Elder Dahlin

February 10, 2014

Hola Familia!!

How are you guys doing?!! Nothing too crazy to report, I didn’t get robbed this week so that is pretty good...haha. I have been pretty sick for the last couple days, I’ve had a feaver with a bad cough. I haven’t been able to sleep very well. I’m getting better though. It has been a pretty good week, things are going really well in the ward. For the first time ever 180 people were at church!! The Ward Council is finally working together and the members are starting to get excited. The mission President and his wife were there in our ward yesterday and they said it’s been a long time since they’ve seen this ward functioning so well. I’m really glad I got to stay for another transfer. We should have some baptisms these next couple weekends, the family that was going to get married should have all their papers this week finally.....haha We had a zone leader council on thursday and we had a Skype session with Elder Mickelson an ermitus 70 who was the mission president here from 1984 to 1987 it was pretty cool. He set the record for the most baptisms in one month so he gave us some of his secrets haha.

We´ve had a good experience this week helping an older lady in our ward. Her son had to leave the city for work and he´ll be gone for 3 months and they have a big dog named Tyson and she’s too old to take him out to do his business and so every day this week we get up at 5:45am, run to her house which is freaking far away haha and take the dog on a walk. This´ll be our life for the next 3 months. She reminds me a lot of Sister McAllister, I think that’s why I do it:)

My return date is June 3rd!!! Everyone is invited to the airport!!! haha

I love you guys so much!!

Elder Dahlin

February 17, 2014

Hola Familia!!!

Whats up?!!! How are things going? How are the Olympics going? This week was pretty tough. We didn’t teach very much and a lot of our investigators lost interest in going to church. The family that we were going to help get married got the news that Javier doesn’t have any of the papers that he needs to get married. They don’t exist. His wife was really sad and looked up on the internet about the church and found a whole bunch of anti-bad stuff about the church and now doesn’t want to get married or go to church. She said that we trick people into believing our message. I was really sad, I’ve been working with this family for like 4 months. Others that we had ready for baptism didn’t get permition from their parents or another problem came up. We did have a baptism yesterday which was good. Her name is Maryluz. Her and her family live in a small town called Yumbo that is part of our area and they started coming to church about 3 weeks ago. Her husband has problems with the word of wisdom but hopefully her example will help him. We are working a lot more in this small town, there was a church/branch there about 30 years ago but the branch president robbed the tithing and the branch sort of fell apart. There are a lot of good members there in Yumbo that want to help out and that want to go to church. We are going to start a project and start a fund so that they can come to Cali for church.

I’m still sick, this coughed that I’ve had for 2 weeks turned into a sinus infection and its getting the best of me. I’m taking antibiotics that should start helping out.

I love you guys!!! Not too much to report. Have a good week!!

Les quiero mucho!!!

Elder Dahlin

January 2014 Letters

Here are Elder Dahlin's January letters! They just keep getting better and better (so does Jason :). He's doing awesome! There's a chance he'll be coming home in JUNE! If not June, it'll be mid-July, but we're crossing our fingers for June ;)

January 6, 2014

Hola Familia!!

Happy 2014!! I can’t believe how fast the time has gone. It’s been a crazy couple of weeks here but its all over now haha We went to a member’s house for New Year’s Eve and made a bunch of food and hung out with them, it was pretty fun. We should have a really good month. We got everything set up for the wedding, it’s this Friday at 3pm if you guys wanna come haha and we should have 4 or 5 baptisms this weekend too if all goes well. All the hard work finally paid off! Jose Aragon (the guys whose wife passed away) received the Priesthood yesterday, it was pretty awesome he seems so happy. He’s given us a bunch of referals too to go visit all his family, it’s awesome. The zone is doing really good, everyone seems happy. There were a few problems over the holidays but we just had interviews with President Prince so everything got taken care of. I can’t believe that I only have 6 months left in the mission :O Its going by way too fast. I love you guys so much, thank you for all the stuff you sent me, you made all the missionaries in my zone very happy haha!

Con mucho amor!

Elder Dahlin

January 13, 2014

Hola Familia!!!

Whats up?!!! How are you guys doing?!! We only had 2 baptisms this weekend, the wedding didn’t happen. There was another problem with the paper work. Turns out there’s 2 people with the same name and we got the papers for the wrong one, of course..haha but it’s alright, we are doing all that we can to be able to get everything fixed. The 2 baptisms that we had were Luz Corralez and Sofia De Leon. Luz is 76 and she was a referal from her sister whose a member. She is really nice, she’s a little shy but we slowly gained her confidence and her sister helped us out alot. Sofia De Leon is 10 and her parents were less active for a long time. They came to church about 3 weeks ago and we started visiting them and Sofia got baptized. Her dad was excomunicated for a problem that he had but he’s starting the process to get baptized again. It’s complicated what happened to him but the good news it that he has a strong desire to be sealed to his family in the temple. We have stake conference this weekend, Elder Grow from the seventy is coming. Rumor is that Cali is going to lose a stake. It’s tough here, last year our mission baptized 1660 people and the church attendance only rose 300. Alot of people are starting to fall away from the church. We are starting to work more to retain and reactivate so that there’s a real growth here in Cali. Its a great time to be a missionary, the Lord is really hastening his work.  I really love the mission, I just feel good being here. I want to have like 100 more baptisms, I just want to explode in these last six months. I love you guys so much thanks for everything you guys do!

Les quiero much!!

Elder Dahlin

January 20, 2014

Hola Familia!!!

THE BRONCOS ARE GOING TO THE SUPERBOWL!!!!! I think I need to come home for the weekend to watch the game haha. How are you guys doing? We just got back from the hospital, one of the elders in our zone had a siezure we had to take him to the ER. He’s doing better now, they are going to do a bunch of tests to see if he’s alright. We were playing soccer with a bunch of missionaries when we got the call from the Mission President. Not the funnest p-day hanging out in the hospital but that’s alright. This week was really good. The old guy who lost his wife, his son got baptized on Saturday, it was awesome! We had Stake Conference this weekend which was awesome too. Elder C. Scott Grow came from the quorum of the Seventy. I got to have a personal interview with him Friday before a special training we had later in the day and it was awesome. We talked about sealings and the purpose temples, and a little about the plan of salvation. It’s not everyday that you get to sit down with a member of the Seventy and listen to him talk about temple ordinances. I learned a lot about what it’s going to be like in the Celestial Kingdom and about the repentance process, along with the mercy that God is going to have on us. He stressed that the Lord really does want all of his children to come back to him and He’s going to try as hard as He can to make sure it happens. On Sunday he talked about the importance of the family and President Prince talked about what Elder Christopherson said about how to get to know Christ. 1) You need to study His life. How He acts, how He responds to questions and handles different situations 2) Put in practice what you learn 3) And gradually over time you will see that you become more and more like the Savior. Before my mission I had never read the Book of Mormon or the Bible, I couldn’t tell you much about Joseph Smith or even bare a good testimony. But after these 19 months I have felt my relationship with my Heavenly Father grow and I have seen how He has changed my heart. I have a lot to learn but I am so greatful to be where I am today.  It is never too late for anyone to change.  I love you guys sooo much!! I can’t believe that I’ll be home this summer!! :D

Les quiero much!!

Elder Dahlin

January 27, 2014

Hola Familia!!

How are you guys doing?! Transfers came and I’m going to be here for another transfer. 6 months in one area haha I’m pretty happy, we have a lot of good families that we are teaching right now so it should be good. My new companion is Elder Chamorro from Ecuador. I don’t really now him but I hear he’s a cool guy and I’m excited.  We didn’t have any baptisms this week and the old guy´s son that we recently baptized didn’t get confirmed on Sunday. He told us on Wednesday that he had to work a lot this week and we haven’t heard from him since. Hopefully we can talk to him this week otherwise he´ll have to get baptized again. The family that was going to get married is still having problems getting the correct papers, its really frustrating. Our ward is going through a bunch of changes right now, most of the ward leaders are inactive so we are working with the Bishop to be able to fill in the holes. I basically ran the ward council meeting yesterday. The members here don’t understand that ward council isn’t to talk about ward rosters and budgiting. I told them that this is sacred time for us to look at families in need and how we can help them. All the other stuff is for all the other boring meetings you have haha. Things are going really good though, this should be a good transfer. The zone had a few changes too, some of the elders are a little iffy. My old comp Elder Ruiz from Popayan is coming so it should be good to talk to him. It’s his last transfer. When I was with him he had 7 months in the mish...time is flyin by!

The new grossest thing I’ve eaten this week is: Pig heart. It was sooo bad and the after taste was the worst. I didn’t even know you can eat things like that haha.  It was the worst, it was so gross haha. They had just barely taken it out of the Pig, cleaned it, cooked it and gave it to me. It was the size of my fist. I wasn’t happy haha.  What’s weird is that with all the gross things that I have eaten here I still don’t like potatoes haha.

I love you guys soo much! Thanks for everything:) 4 months left, I can’t believe how fast my mission has gone by!!

Les quiero mucho!

Elder Dahlin

December Letters

December 2, 2013

Hola Familia!!

How are you guys doing?! So I got back to my area yesterday. This whole week I’ve been in the mission home which was pretty nice. Finally sleeping in a bed where my whole body fits, pillows that aren’t hard as a rock, hot water haha The food was super good too. For the first half of the week I was just in the house reading and helping out where I could and then the last half of the week I was in the mission office helping out the secretaries. It got pretty boring, I’m glad to be back in my area. I missed the members and the investigators a lot. You really get to love these people. I feel better, I got my stitches out on Saturday. The cuts still hurt but I’m sure that will go away soon. The spirit of Christmas is definitely here now. I helped Sister Prince set up Christmas in their house which was fun. Here in Cali there are a lot more houses with lights and other decorations. The problem is that in December the Colombians start to party hard haha The music gets turned up and the people start drikning from the moment they wake up till the moment they go to sleep. We should have some baptisms this month, finally. We have a family that want to get married so keep them in your prayers. The date is the 21st! It sounds like Thanksgiving was fun, that’s awesome everyone was together. I miss the snow. I miss big turkey dinners too haha Next year I’ll be there! I love you guys soo much!!

Les quiero mucho!

Elder Dahlin

December 9, 2013

Hola Familia!!!

Whats up?!!! How are you guys doing?!! Healthwise I’m doing better. My stomach still hurts walking up hills or stairs but its getting better. Sometimes I try to do sit-ups which in the moment doesn’t hurt but later on it kills haha I learned my lesson, hold off on the sit-ups! Here in the mission it seems like everyone is thinking about anything but religion haha. Starting last Saturday until the end of December there are parties every night in the streets, loud music and a lot of drunk people. It’s been really hard finding new people to teach. Even the members in the ward have stopped going to church which is strange.  The Christmas devotional last night was really good. We do need to be more focused on people rather than things. Where our hearts are at will determine if it was a good Christmas or not. We have a family of 3(mom, dad, and son) that we are working with and they are awesome. When we first found them they didn’t want anything to do with marriage. They said that they didn’t love each other and that they are just wating for their kids to get out of the house to split up. But they have had such a big change of heart that the plan is that they get married the 21st:) The Lord works in mysterious ways but it’s been such a cool experience being with them. The problem is that we have to find the papers for their wedding which are in Bogota somewhere so keep praying that they’ll turn up! The Christmas lights, big santa clause inflatables, and gifts are all great, but what I’ve learned is that being with the family is the greater. Helping others is greater. I can’t be with my family but I can sure help others to have that great experience. I miss you guys soo much. It’s hard to be away for Christmas, surrounded by peolpe who shut the door on you, missionaries in your zone that don’t want to do anything, appendicitis...haha but I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. I love you guys so so much. Thanks for everything that you do and remeber that you are always in my thoughts and prayers :)

Les quiero mucho!

Elder Dahlin

December 16, 2013

Hola Familia!!

Next week is Christmas!!! December is flying by I can’t even believe it. This week has been really good, we had zone conference on Wednesday which was awesome.  It was like a Christmas party for the missionaries. I remember last year when you all wrote cards and sent them to Sis Prince and she gave them to us.  Not sure why she didn’t do that again this year, maybe it was too much work haha. We are struggling to get the papers for the wedding we were planning for the 21^st, the Bogota missionaries don’t want to help us find the papers, chumps!...So we had to push the wedding back another week. We have a lot of good people that we are teaching right now, things are just really crazy around Christmas time. Everyone is traveling or with family or don’t want anything to do with religion...haha We should have between 4-6 baptisms at the end of the year if all goes well with the wedding papers and people keep going to church. Transfers are this week and every area in the zone has someone leaving. We are getting some good missionaries transferred into our zone and I’m excited to work with them. I’m still going to be with my companion for another transfer. I started Christmas shopping this morning and it really makes me feel happy. I want to make up a few gifts for members in the ward and then just buy a buch of toys and wrap them up and hand them out to children on Christmas day. I gave a talk in church yesterday. It didn’t go as well as I wanted but it was still alright. I talked about the spirit of Christmas and where our hearts need to be. It’s sad to see that a lot of members have stopped going to church especially around this time. We gotta go get them and bring them back!

I love you so much!! I can’t wait to talk you guys next week!! Merry Christmas!!

Elder Dahlin

December 30, 2013

Hola Familia!!

Feliz Navidad y Feliz Año Nuevo!!!

It was so good talking to you guys this week. I can’t believe that Christmas has come and gone again. This year has flown by!! This Christmas was really awesome! Something that Elder Nelson said in the Christmas Devotional about giving not recieving and being more interested in people than things really got to me. I made a bunch of gifts for members, we bought toys and handed them out to kids on the street, and for all the investigators in the zone I printed out a christmas story and put candy in bags when we went to each area and visited them. We had a really good BBQ as a zone Christmas Eve for lunch and for dinner we went to a members house and we had a really good dinner with them. They are into cold meats here for Christmas like turkey, ham, pork, and salami. We´ve eaten so much this week haha New Year’s Eve we are going over to a members house to eat with them it should be pretty fun.

This will really be a Christmas that I´ll never forget. The older couple that we were trying to help get married, well the wife was really sick and we tried getting all the paperwork together but the missionaries in Bogota took a month to send us what we needed and last Thursday Mary Castrillón, the wife, died. I was so sad and frustrated that we couldn’t get everything done before she passed away, but when we talked to him the next day, I felt such a warm feeling come over me that told me “the plan of salvation is real”. Jose Aragon, the husband, was baptized yesterday and I had the opportunity to do it, As we confirmed him I knew that in one year he will enter into the temple and he will be sealed to his wife. The First Presidency has to approve the sealing since they weren’t married for ¨time¨ but the temple president in Bogota said that there won’t be a problem.

Im so greatful to be on a mission. I can’t beleive there’s only 6 months left. I wish I could start over with all that I’ve learned haha I love you guys so much. Thanks for all the Christmas gifts they were very much appreciated :)

Les quiero much!

Elder Dahlin