Hello hello! Hope everyone is doing good! Sorry it’s been a minute, this transfer has been interesting but I’m still loving it out here!
Update on Darwin: He has been struggling to understand the BoM so we have been reading it with him and hopefully strengthen his testimony of it. He said he wants to be baptized he just needs a bit more time! He’s so awesome and has so much faith! Next time we go over to his apartment he’s gonna take us to chipotle and I haven’t been yet so I’m so excited for that! Keep him in your prayers and thanks to everyone who's already done that!! We’ve definitely been on that finding grind recently.
After EnglishConnect the zone leaders blitzed our area with us and we had kind of a little competition who could get more return appointments and I got to go with one of my past comps, elder muhlstein! We obviously won hahaha. It was super fun! We met some guy named Orlando who is super sweet and definitely knows the bible but we have been going over a couple times and kind of sharing our beliefs with each other.
Last week, we had the feeling to go visit a part member fam with a 14 year old who hasn’t been baptized. We shot her a text in the morning to ask her if we could come over and she basically told us the 14 year old was at his dad’s house but we decided to go anyway and talk to her for a bit because we hadn’t seen her at church in a while. We went over and started talking to her outside on the porch and she kinda just was like why are you here? I thought the missionaries only come to see my son. It was extremely sad she felt that way but at the end we shared a scripture with her and it was awesome, you could really just see the spirit working her! I’ve met her once since the entire time I’ve been here but we went and saw her last night and it was definitely needed. She opened up to us so much and basically told us how she doesn’t feel welcomed in the church, she feels numb and just wants to start over. She hasn’t been praying or reading her scriptures so we invited her to read them 5 days this week and pray every morning and night! She is def one of my fav members I’ve met here. She calls me niño grandote which is basically just her calling me a big child because of my baby face hahah. She is seriously so awesome and I hope she can get back to feeling good again! Please keep her in your prayers!
We got to teach the plan of salvation to the youth at church on a couple sundays ago, it was sweet! There’s a missionary doing the online mtc in the ward and we invited him to teach with us, it was awesome he did a great job! Just thought I would also let yall know that I still haven’t heard anything about mexico and I’m fine with that hahah. I love it here in texas! Idk if I’ve told you guys but this mission lost 20 missionaries and is now losing 30 more at the end of this transfer. The mission is getting super young. It will also be extremely sad to see all these missionaries going home especially the ones I’ve become super close with! It’s crazy I literally hit my year mark in a week... Where did the time go?! We went to texas road house with some of the elders and I ate 7 rolls, my steak, fries, and mashed potatoes. I felt so sick afterwards and I felt like I had to go throw up… So I got up and started walking to the bathroom and threw up in my mouth walking to the bathroom, but made it to the toilet to throw up the rest hahahah. Super sad, basically wasted $20… Here’s the crazy thing. I lost 8 pounds that day… I had only eaten a Pbj for lunch and a shake for breakfast and hadn’t drinken water for like three days lol I do NOT recommend doing that.
This week I finished reading in Alma and started Helaman. It has been a struggle getting through all the war chapters but I have learned a lot of interesting things! I need to trust in the Lord. This might sound dumb but has been a struggle for me. I've been trying to understand how I can do that and one night I was praying and I was just asking Heavenly Father for a sign and I didn't get anything… so I went to bed upset and then in the morning I was reading my scriptures and got chastised by the spirit. I read in Alma 32:17-18 which says
"17 Yea, there are many who do say: If thou wilt show unto us a sign from heaven, then we shall know of a surety; then we shall believe.
18 Now I ask, is this faith? Behold, I say unto you, Nay; for if a man knoweth a thing he hath no cause to believe, for he knoweth it." It was hard accepting that but I realized a lot and what it means to depend on the Lord. It may not be the answer you want or at the time you want but he always provides! There's a quote I was reading that says "We don't discover humility by thinking less of ourselves, we discover humility by thinking less about ourselves" -Uchtdorf. I've realized the more I'm serving others and forgetting about myself the happier I am. This transfer has been without a doubt the hardest transfer of my mission but I know God's plan is perfect and I just need to put one foot in front of the other and focus on what I can do now to become a better disciple of Jesus Christ and live each day as if I was preparing to meet my Savior!
This is a pretty long email and I def haven't covered everything but I hope you all are doing good! Have a great week!
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