So
this week has been pretty good. We were able to witness amazing blessings from
the Lord, starting with Lorena!!!!!!! Lorena is awesome. She has
been waiting to get baptized for 3 years
and
this week she was able to be baptized! It was such an amazing opportunity to
teach her because
she
explains the change that she's had in her life from the Gospel of Christ. And
this is what the mission is about! And now we have plans to try and teach
her husband.
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| Lorena's Baptism. |
Also
this week I was able to go to Melgar for intercambios so it was cool to see
another part of our area. I was with Elder Sotoski from Brasil, who is crazy but loves the scriptures and has a great testimony of the
gospel.
And I was also with Elder Chandler from Idaho. He is another amazing Elder and it
was great to be with him because we both started in the same area and had the
same companion so we were able to talk about that for a while.
Another amazing part of last week was that we were able to have interviews with President Baquerizo which was great because this week has been kind of difficult with all the
interchanges and I didn't feel the same amount of excitement for the work. But
one thing that is true is that the Lord always helps us in our times of need. He
never departs from us. After a difficult Sunday when all of our appointments
fell through, I was starving and it was 8:00 at night and we had been
walking all day. I didn't have the strength to keep going on. But I prayed
hoping that God could help us find someone and that we could continue to serve him
faithfully. At the first door we knocked, we were able to teach someone. Faith
doesn't mean that we are perfect, or that we won't have trials. Faith is to
follow God's plan no matter what the circumstances may be; it's to trust that God
knows better and will help us to return to Him. That's His goal, and that's my
goal too--even when I fail a lot.
But
that's the amazing part about the mission, to repent and follow God better and
to help others to do the same.
I
love this amazing work and I love you guys too!
Have
a fantastic week.
