With Swiftness...

Hello everyone! As always I hope your week was great! Time is just flying by! This week was a lot of fun and again it rained like everyday this week! #hurricaneseason

To start off the week we have been meeting with Darwin still and he’s so willing to change and give up some things to change his life.  The first thing he asked us when we got to his apartment was basically how he can strengthen his faith. So we based our lesson off of that! We showed him the great adventure video ( which is awesome!) and read some scriptures with him. It was an awesome lesson, the spirit was very strong and he’s still progressing like crazy! The Martinez family have been super busy this week so hopefully we can get in this upcoming week and talk with them again! Since we are allowed to street contact now we have been taking those opportunities like crazy. We saw a couple sitting outside so we decided to pull over and go talk to them.  It turns out they were Jehovah's witnesses and kinda tried bashing us so… we decided to bash them… jkjk we tried explaining what we believe in a very nice way but it was kind of difficult but it was a good lesson for us not bashing. They are preachers too but told us we can come back anytime! We will see what happens.

This week was pretty sweet! We got to go play soccer and some people showed up and we just had a fun little pick up game.  We dedicated an apartment which was pretty cool! Then yesterday the hermanas got a flat tire at a gas station. So they called us and I can now say that knowing how to change a tire is very important because I was the only one who knew hahaha. So I can thank my old man papa russ and my gramps for teaching me that! Then we had a singing practice right after and after that we went out to the car and the tire we just changed had ANOTHER nail in it! hahhah it was pretty funny. 

Recently I’ve been really looking for opportunities to serve others! Let me tell you it's hard! No one wants my help I guess… We would be walking down the street and there would be this old couple outside trimming their bushes and they would just look at us and tell us to leave… Many experiences like that this week but it’s whatever I’ll just keep trying! I was recently reading in Alma 17 and I love this verse when Ammon is protecting the sheep from the lamanites.  “And it came to pass that they went in search of the flocks, and they did follow Ammon, and they rushed forth with much swiftness and did head the flocks of the king, and did gather them together again to the place of water.” I love this because I think of us as Ammon and the sheep herders.  The lamanites represent satan and his followers coming to scatter the sheep and  we are the ones gathering the lost sheep. I loved the part that said “and they rushed forth with much swiftness” and I think that’s very important!  They listened to ammon and did it with "swiftness". For me this scripture helped me a lot this week and reminded me to always try my best and to listen and act on the promptings of the holy ghost, and strive to always do things to be in tune with the spirit!

Love you all have a great week!