Have ye spiritually been born of God?

Yooo! I'm going strong! This is like 3 weeks in a row I've sent an email!!! Yall should be proud of me! This week was hard not gonna lie I got humbled pretty good this week by the Lord. Stay tuned if you wanna hear some great stories! 

To start off the week.... i live an hour away walking to my area. We haven't had much time before to really go contact due to lessons and other activities we've been doing. But this week we had a lot of time to go out and contact so we ended up walking to Jesús María like 4 times this week to spend all day up there contacting people. It's also just a pueblito(little town) super pretty area but the people are alot more closed off with their beliefs. 3 of the 4 days contacting people we got rejected by everyone, and when I say everyone I literally mean every single person we talked to. And to top it off, I was spit on, a drunk guy was yelling at us to leave, and we almost got eaten alive by like 7 dogs haha but we had some great conversations even thought the people didn't want to hear about the Gosepl and def planted some seeds! So we went home each of those first 3 days with very little success. 4th day came along and literally again straight rejection. 

It was rough and I just remember praying for the Lord to put someone in our path that would atleast be willing to trade numbers or just let us share a message with them. We walked down this street and about midway down the street I saw a door and my heart just started pounding and I got super anxious but I felt like I needed to go knock this random door. So before letting Satan keep putting doubt in my head I went for it and so we knocked some lady answered and I said that we are looking for a María, and that in our contacts we have someone named Maria that lives here....(I wasn't sure why I said that cuz I had no idea a María lived there) she says Yes I'm María! We started talking and basically she thought we were catholic missionaries coming to chastise her because she hadn't given back one of there bibles she borrowed lol. But she said that we look super nice and has seen missionaries like us and would love for us to come over!! It was probably one of the coolest experiences I've ever had in my mission. I had no idea what her name was, and what her situation was but it was just so cool and the spirit literally gave me what I needed to say in every moment of that talk. We are gonna stop by her house this week to share a message with them! That's our sweet little miracle we saw from this week!!

Quick scripture of the week!! (A part of getting humbled as well) Alma 5 "14 And now behold, I ask of you, my brethren of the church, have ye spiritually been born of God? Have ye received his image in your countenances? Have ye experienced this mighty change in your hearts?" I think this week was one of the hardest weeks of my mission that I've ever experienced. I reflected alot about who I am and what I'm doing out here and as I did I realized I have changed so much from the person I was before my mission but that doesn't mean I should just stop trying. We all need to keep changing and becoming better! The Lord loves each of us and puts these difficulties in our path so we can grow from them and become who the Lord needs us to be! 

Love you all have a great week!! Reach out to me I'd love to hear from you!!!

¿Qué ha hecho nuestro Salvador por Nosotros?

Yo yo! Que tal ¿Cómo están? Hope everyone had a great week! I don't have alot of time to write this but I had another great week out here in Jesús María! This week flew by and it's seriously so crazy to think about how fast the time has gone by! I have about 70 days left until I get back from my mission! It makes me sad and happy. I got alot of mixed emotions about it all lol.  

Anyways not trying to get trunky on you guys or anything like that hahaha. This week was great we have been able to grow our relationship with the members alot and have gained more of their trust! We have found a couple new people to teach this week and our other friends have been progressing! We are teaching a family of 3, Mauricio, Patricia, and Ashley! They are a cool little fam and want want get baptized we are just waiting on some things with Patricia's visa so they can get married! She's from Colombia and is super cool! Alot of others are starting to progress and getting closer to baptism so we are super excited for that! 

I was thinking a lot this week about what has Jesús Christ done for me? It's funny I was thinking about this cuz I went to read a talk and found a talk that literally is called "what has Jesús christ done for me?" By Elder Oaks. He goes on to talk about 4 important things that he has done. 1. The resurrection 2. The atonement 3. Plan of Salvation and 4. The book of Mormon. I quickly wa t to touch on the first 2. The resurrection helps us view life in a different perspective and viewing our diffects in only a temporary state knowing that we will all resurrect and receivea perfect body. Elder Oaks said "The savior endured incomprehensible suffering to become a sacrifice for the sins of all mortals who WOULD repent" that stuck out to me alot because his atoning sacrifice is available for everyone but we need to be willing to make a change in our lives to repent daily. He willingly experienced ALL of our struggles and trials and offers us the strength to push forward and bare them with an eternal perspective. I invite you all to read this talk and I can truly say God loves each of us and has made this grand plan so that one day we can return to live with Him and our families forever!!

Love you all! I'd love to hear from you guys feel free to reach out!!

Mis ovejas oyen mi voz...

Yo yo!! Hope everyone is having a great day!!it's been a minute! Last week the mission had an emergency transfer lol. They pulled out all the American missionaries out of zacatecas because it's gotten to dangerous and our government isn't allowing anyone in that state anymore. I finally got transferred after being in my last area for the last 7 months hahaha. I'm still here in Aguascalientes but I'm in the other zone now. Super sad to leave and saying by to all the missionaries/zone, church members and people we were teaching was super sad but I know I will see them all again! Also went to a bull fight Monday it was insane and I watched 6 bulls get slaughtered lol.

Last week my little bro Jd got his mission call to the lima Peru este mission!!! So excited for him and all the great things he will do. It's so weird to think how fast time goes by I only have 3 months left of my mission and then jd will be starting his right up! 

My last Sunday en teran, Ivan finally came to church!!! He absolutely loved it. We talked with him afterwards with a member and he is for sure getting baptized! And I'm lucky enough to be here in aguas so when he does I can go to his baptism! He's so prepared to hear the gospel and it had been so much fun getting to know him and his family (Pic down below). We went over to say bye to Anselio and his family as well and it was super sad everyone got teary haha. Norma has been great! We lost contact for a bit but she told us since we talked about the word of wisdom with her 2 months ago she stopped drinking coffee and tea!!! The day we told her about it!!! I'm also gonna miss that ward so much. All the members there were so cool and I truly enjoyed every minute being there! Hopefully all the people we were teaching can keep progressing and accept the gospel into their lives.

I'm super excited for the new area I'm in! There's a lot of work to be done here! The members here don't really like the missionaries and we don't have to many people progressing rn but this makes me happy because it means there's work that needs to be done and in the little time left I have in my mission I'm gonna finish strong in this area!! The last week we ended up finding 12 new people to teach and this week 5! We also had ward council for the first time in over 2 years! Slowly but surely we are seeing miracles every day and the progression of the area!!

Scripture I liked this week: 

27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:

28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand

I love how it says my sheep hear my voice and follow me. We are all disciples of Jesucristo but how are we hearing his voice or receiving guidance in our lives? We need to be putting good things into our lives if we want to have more joy. I've realized on my mission the little things do matter and the little daily habits you develop are so important and will bless me for the rest of my life!! Just a little thought for the week. Love you all have a great rest of your week!!!!