This week was awesome!
The last couple weeks (as I have mentioned) have been kinda slow
and hard but this week was like a straight 180. We were super busy and had some
awesome miracles happen! It was an awesome testimony that sometimes the Lord
allows us to go through hard times to test our faith and see if we are really
committed to following him.
Miracle 1:
We met these two dudes that live super close to each other.
One dude is Jorge, the other one is Alejandro. We felt like we should stop by
them. We got into Jorge's house and he had 2 other friends there. As we started
to talk to them and teach them it got super frustrating super quick. I don't
really know how to describe it but they were just kinda unresponsive.... We
would ask a question and they would just sit there and stare at us and say
"pues no se... Pues es que pues........." And then the ONE guy of the
three was not understandable... Like I've been speaking Spanish for a year now
I have a pretty solid handle on understanding but this dude was impossible to
understand. Anyway it was just lame. Sooo after we went to Alejandro and had
the best lesson of my mission so far!
He let us right in and we started the Restoration with him
and his wife Silvia. We seemed to say all the right things, and they answered
in all the right ways. The spirit was super strong and as we were leaving
Alejandro said something along the lines of "Yeah we can tell you bring a
good feeling into our house, and we also know that what you are telling us
doesn't go against anything we already believe in." It was super awesome
and we came back 2 days later and they were there again! We read 3 Nephi 11 and
same thing, a picturesque lesson. We are super excited for them!!
Miracle 2:
Thanksgiving :)
Thanksgiving was super awesome, we got invited over for
dinner with Hna. Valdivia as usual and she was super stoked to cook us a real
American Thanksgiving. There were 6 missionaries, 5 members, and 2
investigators there so it was a party. It was honestly really good probably
better than most Thanksgivings I've had in my life (sorry fam jaja this lady
just knows how to cook!) We spent the rest of the evening singing our musical
number that we perform in 2 weeks.
Miracle 3:
Media referral! I honestly never thought I'd get a media
referral in my life as a missionary. Media referrals are the kind where someone
goes on comeuntochrist.org
and fills out a form to get a BoM, Bible, or just a visit with the
missionaries. They are pretty rare, and when they come they usually go to the
English Missionaries. Elder Jones and I were super surprised when we got one in
our area since 1. Our area is super small and 2. She actually spoke Spanish
haha. We messaged her to set up a time and Maria was there waiting for us and
her new BoM! Apparently she has gone to lots of churches over the years, but
hasn't liked any of them except for ours. We had a brief visit and then she
gave us some Tamales to go :)
Miracle 4:
OUR BRANCH IS BECOMING A WARD!!!! It's super crazy Y'all
this branch has been teetering on the edge of becoming a ward for sooooooooo
long. It is gonna be really good for the work because there will be a change of
leadership up top. Our current branch presidency is kinda burnt out and have
some beef with a lot of the members so there is a bit of a toxic environment
right now. Anyways, they announced that on the 29th they will form the
Kennewick Spanish Ward. This will be the second ward in our mission so it was
super big news.
Anyways, I feel like this email is super long haha. If you
made it this far congrats.
Los amo, estén bien!
Fotos:
1. Elder Jones happy as a clam on his birthday when it
snowed
2. We wrapped BoM's for a thing we are doing soon. Some
people wanted to do mugshot faces apparently but only 1/2 the people knew
haha
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