Week 37~

This week was so awesome! We saw so many miracles! So we started working in our new area last monday and immediately found lots of success in finding people to teach and finding members that could help us out and everything just seemed to go so perfectly. We visited less active members that we found in our area book and knocked on doors (or clapped at the doors because thats what we do here) and we called all of the phone numbers we could find and tried to do everything we could to get established right away in our area and it went so well. One family we visited is a part-member family, the moms name is Marisa and her boyfriend Martin and then her daughter Daniella and her son José- Martin is not a member of the church and the rest of the family hasn't gone for two years, but we visited them and right away felt a lot of confidence that we are going to see lots of progress and changes in their family. And this sunday they all came to church for the first time in two years and it was just so cool! They are super prepared and ready to make changes in their lives and we are just the lucky missionaries that get to see it happen. Another person we have in our new area is a woman named Maria and she is the mother of a new member named Nicolas who is a total stud. He got baptized like 10 months ago and is already waiting for his mission call to come. He goes out and visits people with us all the time and isnt afraid to share the gospel with anyone. But his mom is Maria and she has a date to be baptized very soon too so we are working super hard to get her prepared for that. Yesterday we taught about faith, repentance, baptism, the Holy Ghost and enduring to the end. It was a lesson full of the Spirit. Maria really opened up to us and shared with us a lot of really hard things that have happened in her life, she has lost a lot of loved ones. We talked to her about the Plan of Salvation that Heavenly Father has put into effect so that we can have eternal happiness. At the end of the lesson I felt prompted to share with Maria something that our Mission Presidents wife said, ¨that we need to look for the people that have ancestors waiting to have their works done for them that they need for their salvation¨ or in other words, there are people in the spirit world that have accepted the gospel of Jesus Christ and all they are waiting for is that someone does the ordinances in the Temple for them. And we need to find their descendents. That came to my mind in this lesson and I felt like i needed to tell that to Maria. I told her that her family members are waiting for her to accept the gospel and then afterwards give them the chance to accept it as well. I told her that she was one of those people that we needed to find. We all felt the spirit testify so strongly in that moment and we know she felt it. She is going to be a great member of the church of Jesus Christ. Besides them we have found a lot of other great people and we are so excited about our new area. I know we are going to have success. I feel more excited about this work than I have ever been probably. We are still looking for a new apartment because right now we have to either walk an hour to our area or take a bus and that is getting expensive so we are on the hunt! This transfer is flying by. Time needs to slow down on the mish. But I am enjoying every moment of it, even the lame ones! I love you guys. I love the Lord. I love being a missionary and I wouldnt trade it for the world. The gospel is the way to happiness! Have a great week!