that is the theme of my letter today everyone. well. yeah i dunno it was just an AWESOME CRAZY WEEK!!! seriously i'm warming up my fingers, gotta type fast!
first of all we got HIT BY TORNADOES!!!!!! it was the coolest day ever, crazy tropical storm with scattered tornadoes, we got tons of alarms and warnings and had to go in lock down all day, i have the funniest pictures, haha our zone had a picture contest since we were all in lock down and ours is pretty good i'm not gonna lie.... :)
anywho, lets see. this week was just awesome, where to begin?
INVESTIGATORS!
well. this is where the Lord has been SO merciful and helpful and blessed us a ton, we have lots of investigators but we have the hardest time really getting them to progress, with real intent! but here are some that we honestly see with a baptism soon.
Emilio! we found him and his family knocking, i dunno if i've told you guys about him! but he's great, we went to a lesson with him and he said he didn't have time then but then as we were talking someone backed into our car, haha and so we had to do lots of paperwork stuff and then he was like well hey come in!! and we were like... okay! haha he had TONS of good questions, he really wants to know about everything, he's reading pretty solidly and uhhhhh yeah. so it's great :)
okay Noemi! she's the one we did the prayer for in the hospital, she is awesome, we went back and taught her the plan of salvation, she freaked out about it! she was like wait what?? we lived with god with eachother before this life?? and jesus is our brother?? haha it was great, she loved it, she's genuinely interested and needs this she says, she has strong faith and knows god will answer her prayers about if it's true or not! i'm so excited with her, the spirit was strong EVEN though her nephew was playing a zombie slashing game in the backround.... yeah it was nasty i hate video games. haha they are a pain in the field with trying to bring in the focus and the spirit! but it was still awesome, extended the baptism invitation and she said YES when she knows it's true! WOO! so we'll see with that :)
next prroooobably is vladimir!! he is just so much happier. it is crazy. he was so quiet and you could see so much pain in him every time we talked to him, but he is changing so much, he talks a TON more and is so much happier, and can probably get a CAAAAARRRRRR WOOOOO!!!! which means he'll be able to finally come to church :) SO HAPPY!!!
lets see....
okay favorite experience of the week, it's small and simple but guys you have no idea how AWESOME IT WAS.
so we were driving back home from a far away appointment and we had literally just eaten a twinkie, sprite and fried sugar stuff for a dinner... given to us by a member, hahaha, and i was sick that day already so i was not feelin it at all, and i saw this english guy getting his mail and i thought yeah we need to talk to him. but then i was like he's english, aaaand yeah... and we kept driving but then i was like yeah nope we HAVE to go talk to him. so we stopped and turned around and he was still slowly walking into his house and kept looking at us and we got out and went up to him and he was like are you guys here for me? and we said YES! we're representatives of Jesus Christ and we felt like we had to turn around and talk to you. and he asked about our missions and said it was awesome and he's a christian, and started talking about how unworthy he is and how we all are and ya know he's just gonna feel guilty all the time but what are you gonna do? and we talked about the atonement and how you don't have to feel that guilt, and then i just randomly told him he needs to pray again, and he said he hasn't prayed in a long time, and he knows, and then we shared some scriptures and gave a prayer and he started sobbing!! he was so emotional, and so grateful, his life is so stressed right now and he had forgotten to have the Lord in his life and he said (trying to hide his face and walk inside) that we could come back ANY time, please to do so, and he took a book of mormon and said he's coming to our church, it was awesome, just a solid testimony that the spirit knows what he's talkin about and to LISTEN to him! always, it was just so crazy how strong the spirit was, i loved it. such an awesome experience.
okkay aNOTHER cool story!!! the blitz this week was spanish but we split the companionships so every english missionary could be with a spanish and i went with an english missionary...... :0 meaning any spanish was ALL ON ME!!!! it was SO SCARY! haha but we met a lady who invited us right in and she already had a BoM and i taught her about it more and we had a whole conversation and it was AWESOME!!!!!! guys the Lord can work MIRACLES. for real, me and hmn judd have been on an english fast, only spansih basically forever now, haha and it has helped so much, i am so so so grateful how much God is helpin me out every day.
okay ONE MORE! Juan :) (the one that has the gang past and tons of tattoos and stuff) we finally got a lesson with this punk!!! after like a month a swear!! and him blowing us off every sunday! but it was such a solid lesson, we taught about the atonement and repentance and he was like man i just thought you did stuff and that was that and you just always had the guilt, i didn't think you could do anything about it, i didn't know you could ask god for forgiveness! it's crazy the simplest things to us are so big and new for some people, and awesome! i love teaching i love my mission! anyways he said he'd be baptized too! and get this, we asked him to commit to stop smoking and he said he ALREADY HAD! oh my goodness. the Lord is preparing him fast! so excited about it.
WELL i feel like i'm lacking on funny stories but i just can't remember any.... haha SORRY!
but guys let me just tell ya how grateful i am for this, and for all of you back home, and everything i'm learning. I love you all so much, you have no idea. love is such a gift, the emotion of love, being able to feel it, is seriously a gift from God and i think we forget that a lot. it is so powerful and makes you capable of so much, without love i would not be here. for so many reasons, and if i didn't have love for my investigators i wouldn't wake up every day and work my hardest to get them to christ, it's just an emotion that has SO MUCH POWER!!! it's the reason we have the atonement, it's the reason we can even go BACK to live with God! it's just crazy and i'm learning more about it every week. i'm praying for more love and i'm gettin it!
everyone God loves you guys so much. it's so crazy every day i see people reject what we have without even giving it a chance, they are sure they don't need it and they are happy enough. but god has given us the church, prayer, scriptures, EVERYthing he has given us, for OUR BENEFIT. haha it kills me! with myself too! how many times do we think of those things as obligations? and that we don't have time for it? and that we're doing that for God? no no no, those are gifts from God to us, we think it's so hard sometimes to do what he asks and i can just picture him with his jaw down like.... uh.... are you kidding me? that is SPECIFICALLY to make you happy!! but thankfully god is patient with us :) i'm grateful he is patient with me. every day i am humbled even more! pride is such a dangerous thing, could you imagine if heavenly father had pride? we would all be done for! we reject him every day! but he NEVER would reject us. man i am just super grateful this week, i don't think this all makes much sense and it's coming out in blurbs but honestly guys God is good. so merciful, so loving, i just am crazy about my mission :) haha it's the BESSSSTTTTTTT WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! HOOORAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!
k i am OUT of time BYE!
our poor dent :(
CUTEST little tiny frog :) i'm in LOVE!
another of the cute baby frog cause i was obsessed.
and torndao warning! did i already send that one? haha
our picture contest pictures :) hahaha
picture 1, waiting for the tornado! ahh!
picture 2, suddenly before it hits, we're TRANSLATED!
and we find ourselves suddenly in heaven :)
-best part toilet papering our bathroom. haha
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