crazy week

Wow talk about a crazy week!

Riding a sweet tricycle
 that I just got done spray painting the front blue
for one of our investigators.

There have been some hurricanes down on the coast.  It is like 2 or 3 hours from here and this week we just got pounded by this hurricane. It rained every single day this last week and when I say rain, I mean rain.  It just dumped a ton of rain. One day this week Elder Mejia and I were out working in the streets trying to find families to teach and we were walking in water past our knees. Talk about crazy, on one street one of the city busses was driving and it was so deep that it killed the engine of the bus and it was just stuck in the road. This was just crazy.  I can't believe this crazy weather.  It was really difficult to work but we didn't loose our faith we kept pushing forward believing that God would bless us and He did. 

We found some really great and awesome people this week and they were super fun to teach.  We are teaching a family their names are Benjamin, Soyla, Maria and Conchita, it was our first visit with all of them together.  We were teaching them the Book of Mormon, well sort of.   We told them that they were the missionaries and they knew that this book was true.  They needed to teach us how we could know that the book was true as if we were investigators. We read the last 2 paragraphs of the intro with them and they taught us how to receive an answer. It was amazing and they loved it.   Then we read 2 Nefi 31, which talks about the doctrine of Christ and baptism. The spirit was strong and they loved it.  We asked them what was preventing them from following the example of Jesus Christ and being baptized. They said to us "nothing. " They said there is a river close by, you can take us there right now and baptize us. I was just like wow. It was amazing and these people were all excited and we love what we are teaching them. They are all going to get baptized. They all have dates.

Also, we were at lunch yesterday when we received a phone call from an elder in a different area.  He said there was someone that wanted to talk to us. We started talking with a lady named Gaby.  She told us that the missionaries were visiting her about a year ago.  She was going to get baptized but then the missionaries stopped going with her and she didn't know why.  She told us that she still wanted to get baptized and she wanted us to come visit her because she lives in our area. Wow it was amazing, we are going to go visit her this week and we are going to baptize her.

This week was a week of growth. It was a hard week for us but I learned a lot. At the first of the week nothing was going our way. We couldn't find any new people to teach and the people we had been teaching weren't progressing.  We were just working really hard to find new chosen investigators, but nothing was happening.  But we did not loose our faith.  We kept working with hope.  We kept being obedient and doing everything that we are supposed to and right at the end of the week is when were richly blessed. Many times we want things in the moment and sometimes God wants us to learn patience but I know that as we stay obedient and work and endure constantly we will always be blessed.

I'm looking forward for another great week this week.

Gotta love the burritos, yeah!
I hammered two!

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