"I Want That Kind of Happiness For My Family"

As of right now we are teaching about six families and only one of them is married. But in reality we were really lucky to find the married one. Jungle life is really different from anything I have had to get use to. People just don’t get married; it’s too much of a hassle. It’s much easier to just live under the same roof and have a family. It’s sad because when we teach these couples about the importance of marriage they tell us that marriage is a big decision and is something serious. We always ask them how many kids they have and then we use that number for the amount of reasons they need to get married. We had a really neat experience this past week we a couple who wasn’t married. We discussed the importance of marriage and began to teach the message of “The Restoration” teaching the importance of marriage in every principle. At the end we challenged them to pray to receive an answer from God if these things are true. On our return visit we began to ask them about how there prayer went. The father (Juan) looked us straight in the eye and said “I know Joseph Smith was a prophet, and I want the kind of happiness the gospel brings for my family” We are helping them get their papers and documents ready for the next Matrimonio Massivo here in Iquitos. The Gospel changes lives and its just as true here in the Jungles of Iquitos as it is back home in Idaho. I love seeing the changes in people and seeing them progress.