Alright, this week has been a blast! My new companion is Elder McGann, he´s from Chicago, and he´s hilarious! I´ts been super awesome learning along with him. He´s helping me develop characteristics that I´d been praying to the Lord for. We´ve seen some pretty cool miracles this week!
Familia Alvarado asisitieron a la iglesia esta semana, otra vez!!! And this time, they stayed for all the classes! I was so happy. And German got here on time all on his own! He´s been a little finicky about setting his baptismal date, he´s had the interview and passed twice because the other two dates for his baptism fell through. But he´s finally getting baptized this Saturday. It should be really awesome!
I´ve seen some real miracles happening through prayer! Sometimes things happen on the mission that I feel like should be told in person, pretty special and sacred things. Mosiah 27:14.
It looks like my efforts to truly love and serve the members here in Tolosa is paying off! They really love and respect us, they´ve been inspired to participate more in the missionary work, and they´ve been helping us a lot and they´ve been sharing the gospel with their friends and acquaintances! It´s miraculous to see the work. The bishop said to Elder McGann that this area is a little hard, but I think it´s the best it can be and I know we´re going to see even more miracles here in the next few weeks!
The zone leaders gave a challenge to give out 150 of the cards of the Pascua on Saturday, the first companionship to do it would get a special reward. They only counted if the people comprometieron to watch the video- we thought it would be pretty impossible, but Elder McGann and I decided to do it. It worked! At first it went super fast, it was pretty crazy! Near the end it got really hard. Now we have a ton of new contacts to teach, we planted a ton of seeds of the gospel out there! We called, and we were the first and only elders to finish the challenge. It´s pretty cool what happens when we obey with faith, God does miracles.
I´ve really enjoyed eating with members and sharing spiritual moments with them this week. At first, I felt awkward trying to make good relationships with them, I prayed a lot and just decided to love them with all my heart and do whatever came next. It´s truly been miraculous what has happened. I would urge you all to do the same, wherever you are- truly love the people that surround you and then do what comes next, and you will find yourself surrounded by the brightest and most wonderful people in all the world.
These pictures are of me, Elder McGann, Elder Gastelo, and Elder Velazquez (Elder Gastelo is training him. He´s super cool! He´s from misiones, so he´s a misionero de verdad, haha!) I love these guys. I´m gonna forward you guys an email from Elder Bills, he went to Florencia Varela. I love that guy a ton too.
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