Me encanta escuchar de los profetas vivientes

Wow, conference was great wasn’t it!!!!!!! I loved all of the great talks!

This week was a fun week :) 

So we were able to have a great member present with Beatriz again, and this time her friends sat in as well, and they were actually interested which was the coolest part! :)

This week I went on an exchange in Brownsburg, first exchange ever in an English area! Wow that was weird! But it was fun and I had a great time with Elder Remington, he’s a great missionary! We taught a part member family, and the husband-to-be is preparing to be baptized. As I listened to his story, I realized the blessings of making correct choices in life. Even though we can correct our course and get back on the path, it’s so much better to just stay on it, then you don’t have the consequences that follow you the rest of your life. 

For some reason this week, tracting was really hard. It seemed like the more we wanted to tract, the more things that had to be done at the moment came up. And when we did get the time to tract, all people wanted to do was talk about anything but the gospel. It was a humbling week in that aspect.

Friday we were able to meet with a recent convert and talk about what General Conference is. I love watching recent converts who are really converted to the gospel. They are just like sponges and want to learn more and more.

And then General Conference to top things off. Wow that was an amazing conference. I just can’t pick one favorite part because they all mesh into one big spiritual glob in my head! But we were able to watch it on Saturday at the house of our branch president and his family.

And on Sunday’s session, we had Wendy and Audel come and watch both sessions, and then another investigator we have named Patricia came to the last session!

I am so happy to see that president Monson spoke, and that he is doing well in his role as a prophet. The church is true and Tomas S. Monson is the prophet :) 

Me encanta el templo :)

Really good week that we had this week! 

We had a really good lesson again with the lady named Beatriz, she is progressing slowly but surely. We will be having another lesson with her today with her husband! So we are super excited for that! 

We have also had some really good lessons with Wendy, Audel, and Yesenia. We also had a fast for them all day yesterday that the struggles and roadblocks for the baptisms of Yesenia and Audel can be overcome. It’s a lot easier to fast when you have a purpose that you really want to accomplish.

I got to go on exchanges this week with Elder Ellsworth, from southern California. That was fun. He is probably the missionary who I have seen change the most in the 3 months that he has been out! I love watching growth!

Friday was a miracle. We were able to go blitz our area with Elder Baird and Elder Cruz, which was fun. But the miracle came when we go to our dinner appointment. The members just decided to invite one of their friends and her two daughters to dinner. We were able to share the restoration lesson with them. And then on Sunday the whole family, including the husband, came to church! That was super cool!

And on Saturday we were able to go to the temple with the Molina family and a less active that Elder Blood tracted into named Sara. They were able to do baptisms for the dead and man was the spirit strong! I got to baptize Jesus Molina. It was a little difficult because he’s a lot bigger than I was and he was scared to go into the water at some points, but we overcame and finished the baptisms. Talk about grace! 

Por que no podria quedar el calor?!

Super sad that it turned cold again this week. I was so looking forward to March when it would be warm! Oh well I guess I’ll just have to man it out. 

This week was really good. 

We had this lesson planned with this lady named Beatrice, and we wanted a member to come, but when we stopped by his house to ask him, he wasn’t home, but another member and his return missionary son were there. The son, Diego, came and it was such an awesome member present. He testified of the truthfulness of the church and the BOM and it was just powerful. Members are so crucial to this work, it’s insane!

We also had a good lesson with Wendy, and now we are officially teaching her boyfriend, and they are set to get married the 10 of April and baptized the 16. Audel (the bf) went and bought a white shirt this week to come to church, and I gave him a tie. So now he looks spiffy :) 

We had a great service opportunity at a tire shop. We were able to talk to a lot of people there and explain to them what missionaries do and even try to talk about the gospel, but not many wanted it, oh well we tried.

I went back to my old area on exchanges with Elder Cruz, and it was super cool because for almost a whole day, I only spoke Spanish! But we got to visit the members and investigators there, and even Jesica, Francisco, Jesse, and Destany :) they are doing awesome and he got the priesthood last week :)

Love you all :) 

Sitting in a waiting room.  Super bored and can't sleep.