Hello Everyone! This week was super good! A Lot of crazy awesome stuff happened this week!
To start off we made a facebook post in a local group about service and we had SO many people reach out to us and ask for help and just thank us for what we do. It was awesome! So literally everyday this week we had a service project! We cleaned a pool, laid soil, trimmed bushes, painted, and then about 7 hours of basically tearing up someone’s lawn and moving all their grass to an area behind their house. We used a super cool machine that would cut the grass in the front yard like pieces of sod. That was a struggle and it’s also 83 and 90% humid outside right now! I got a real nice sunburn that’s for sure!
Yuli!!! This is awesome! We finally got in contact with her! We went to her house painted with her, invited her to read Alma 37 and then she said to call her the next day. We call her and honestly the chapter was perfect and she loved the chapter and the same verses I love from it! It was super cool. It went perfect with the lesson and then felt prompted to invite her to be baptized, she accepted and we set a date for her in June! She wanted to wait a little bit because she wants to get baptized with her daughter who is being taught by the missionaries in Spain! The spirit was super strong in the lesson and definitely lead the whole thing!
We were making calls last night to all the people we are teaching. It was 9 but we wanted to make one more phone call so literally just scrolled through our contacts and called a random number who answered and immediately told us he was doing bad. He was super closed and didn’t want to talk but we finally got him to open up by me telling him my spanish is bad ahah, but from there it was awesome! We started talking for a sec then he tried bashing me and asked me what’s God’s name and I did nothing more than bare my testimony. I think it softened him a little bit because we talked to him for a bit longer and then got a return appointment! We will see what will happen…(Anyone got any bashing tips?? jkjk)
We had Zone Conference this week! It was a lot of fun! It was a multi zone conference so I got to see a lot of people I served with! Then yesterday we had the opportunity to go to Beaumont for an all spanish members sacrament meeting. WITH… Elder Rascon the area seventy!! This dude is so spiritual. And his words are just as powerful in spanish as they are in English! He reminds so much of Elder Holland. I have heard from him at a Zone Conference and talked about him in one of my past emails. After the sacrament meeting he came up to the missionaries and stared us deeply in the eyes and shook each of our hands. Then told us he wants to talk to us in private. We went into some room and he talked to us for like 5 minutes and basically just told us how it is. What the mission is, the importance of what we are doing, and bore one of the strongest testimonies I've heard. Almost made me tear up hahaha. One thing he said in his talk is with the spirit in our lives we can do anything. I loved that even though it was simple because I've definitely seen a difference from when the spirit is strong and guiding me through the day compared to when I'm not listening to the promptings as well as I should.
Recently I've been studying Prayer. What is a prayer? It's obviously a way we can communicate with our Heavenly Father. I've been trying to make my prayers more meaningful. One thing I've been doing is giving him time to talk to me! And wow this is the most revelation I've been able to call revelation if that makes sense hahah. So I invite you all to leave time for Heavenly Father to talk to you and I know he will!!
Hope you guys all have a wonderful week! Love you all and shoot me an email!
