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Time Keeps Flying By!
Hola Familia!
Since I missed my update last
week, I'm gonna combine these past two weeks into one. So, buckle up!
Things have been going swell here
in San Pablo, new transfer means new miracles! It was sad to say goodbye to Elder
Calderwood. But, my new companion, Elder Cross, is great! He has already served
in this area for a transfer a while back, so we've been trying to rekindle some
progress with former investigators. We started teaching this couple named
Silvia and Alejandro who had been investigating for about 4 years, and they are
super hilarious! We left them with our testimonies of Christ and left them a
picture of Him. Hoping to help them start keeping commitments again. Also
stopped by this other former investigator in the area and turns out they moved.
But the new Hispanic family living there let us in! There was a young mom, and
her two parents from El Salvador. Honestly, I think it is the smoothest, best
sounding Spanish out there! (So much better than our Americano accents lol).
Unfortunately, they are moving back down to their country in a month, so they
won't stay long.
Okay quick funny story of the week.
I swear, people are going crazy at the library! Hahaha. So we were just
chilling in the library typing up our stake report one morning and this lady,
probably about 40 years old, next to us listening to music just starts busting
out dancing in her chair, and yelling at the top of her lungs in a dead silent
library! We were like what in the world!!😂 Then, the next day we sat next to this other lady who just out
of the blue grabbed my companion’s pen and starts writing a note to us like we
are back in 2nd grade lol. Then she just walked away! On the note it said, “I
need the church, me and my friend need help, get Bishop Foster, he will know
what to do.” We were like, who is Bishop Foster? She ended up coming back into
the library 20 minutes later and we asked her what the heck was going on. It
turns out she is an inactive member of the church in St. Paul and we got her
friend’s address to send some missionaries over to try to help. It was just
really freaky to have her tell us that just so suddenly and on a creepy note😂 fun times!
We got in contact again with a
Hispanic lady who we found on exchanges last transfer named Reina and she let
us in to teach her family! They have the cutest little four-year-old daughter
ever! When we were sitting there, she would hide her face with her hands and
play peekaboo and say, "aquÃ! aquÃ!" We had a great lesson with Reina
on the plan of salvation, and when we left the little girl said to us,
"please come back later!" Que linda! We came back the next week and
gave them a Book of Mormon. We are hoping to see them progress.
The Flores family is still doing
really well! They've been reading and praying as a family, and we have gone
over about 3 times in the past few weeks. We watched the restoration movie with
Ashley and, honestly, I can't watch it anymore without my eyes tearing up! The Spirit
is always so sweet, testifying of the truthfulness of the restoration of
Christ's church. We also chalked-out the Plan of Salvation (and unfortunately
forgot to take a picture, and it was washed away from a couple crazy
thunderstorms!) and also taught about tithing. They've still struggled to come
to church, and they missed this week because they were in Wisconsin or
something, so we will have to push back Ashley's baptism a week or two. But we
are still super pumped!
Speaking of those thunderstorms,
we got out of a dinner and had to book it to our car and got drenched! There
were trees knocked over everywhere and streets flooded. Then literally the next
day was 95 and sunny. I still don't understand Minnesota weather lol.
Some other highlights from is past
week - we went on Karen exchanges this week. Luckily, I stayed here so I didn't
have to go eat chicken feet and spicy Thai food like my companion😂. I had a great day with an Elder
Foutz from Utah, though. Spiritual giant! We also went to Minneapolis for a
double baptism of investigators who Elder Cross taught. Oh, and I learned
something new! Apparently the Minneapolis Spanish Ward is the biggest in the
entire country!! But only because they really need to split it haha. Some other
good news, our beastly recent-convert Manuel received the priesthood last week
and blessed the sacrament for the first time this week! We are planning a
temple trip with them in a couple weeks. We also got in contact with an
inactive Hispanic lady who was converted to the gospel about 15 years ago but
has had marriage and family problems. She shared about her conversion to the
church, and it was powerful. Well long story short, we are teaching her and
helping her to come back to church and also teaching her 11-year-old son,
Manuel, who had a baptismal date last year but something got in the way, so we
are teaching him again! Before you know it, we will just baptize a whole new
primary for our ward😂 Also had
a ward potluck last week, and guess who randomly showed up.. our investigator
Johnathon!! It was awesome, we had some carne asada and played kickball. It was
a blast!
I have been studying a lot about
priesthood power recently, and it is such a blessing that we have this power
from God given to us to bless the lives of others! Here's a powerful quote from
Harold B Lee:
"Never is the power of the priesthood, which you hold, more wonderful than
when there is a crisis in your home, a serious illness, or some great decision
that has to be made."
In our moments of struggle, we are
so blessed to have priesthood authority restored to the earth again to call
down the blessings of heaven! I know this power is real.
Have a wonderful week! I love you
all and thank you for all your support😊
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