68th Letter: "Easter!"

Dear Family!!
Happy Easter! What a wonderful week it has been! I hope each of you took the time to ponder the significance of this week an reflect on the atonement of our Savior Jesus Christ. What an incredible blessing that our Savior has given to all of the world. As we had many opportunities to teach people about the atonement it kept ringing clear in my ears that our Savior has suffered so that we dont have to, but that is dependent upon us accepting and using the atonement in our lives. Not only the cleansing power of the atonement but the enabling and strengthening power of the atonement. What an amazing blessing that I have to be able to share this with the world. You can think of how much the atonement means to you personally, can you imagine not knowing that? There are millions of people that dont! Or if they do they still choose not to use it mostly because they dont know how. That is our role to help them know how!

Things are going really well here in Cruces! Ezequiel will be getting baptized on Sunday!! What a blessing it has been to teach him! He has been prepared to receive the gospel, he absolutely loves the Book of Mormon and has already shared it with many people. Once again guarantee that he will be a Bishop one day. Cynthia is progressing well for her baptism the following Saturday, she has faced a challenge of working on Sundays that we will discuss in our appointment tonight, but she has such a wonderful testimony of the gospel that I know she will get baptized. Beatrice is scheduled to get baptized on May 10th and she is looking pretty solid as well, she has been taught for ever, hopefully we can seal the deal and get her in the water. Along with them Elder Figgins and I have continually been humbled with the people we are finding, the work is exploding here. We are teaching more than this area ever has and we equaled the total number of baptisms in this area last year, by last weekend alone. What a miracle and blessing it has been!

Love you all so very much, thanks for your continually emails and love that you give to me! I really appreciate it! 

Love Elder Barrus