Saturday, January 18, 2014

Week 22- January 6, 2014 - Boyle Heights, East L.A.


Dear Everyone,
This week was cool. Can't quite think of anything out of the ordinary that happened. I feel like the days are just starting to blur together, it's kinda weird. Thanks, looking forward to getting the calendar, did you send the flag as well by any chance? 

We are doing pretty great as a ward. It looks like we are having a bunch of baptisms this month. Like I had said in one of the last emails, Victoria postponed her baptismal date to this upcoming Sunday. And this seems a lot more sure now, so we are super excited. It's been pretty neat to see how people change as time goes on and as the open up. Goes to show, people really can change!

Oh now I remember something cool that happened. So we had exchanges this past week and I went with our new district leader, Elder Ostler. The exchange started off kinda rough since he lost his planner and we couldn't really plan anything until the morning. So we finally got all set up in the morning and ready to go. We had a decent afternoon, nothing too crazy. A member who wanted us to go by his wife had us over for dinner. I was about to explode. And I'm gaining some good weight now. Anyways! We ate and then began our lesson. Everything was going pretty fantastic. Actually really great! She said the prayer and began to cry, spirit was awesome. We had given her a baptismal invite before she said the prayer, but that was it. But then after the prayer, I had this really strong prompting to give her a date for the 26th of January. Which was a bit strange for me. Especially since I had no idea what date Elder Ostler wanted for her. But I couldn't ignore it. Elder Ostler was starting to set up the appointment for next time they could go over, but I (nicely) cut him off and followed that prompting. And she accepted it! It was pretty crazy cool. I was hoping Elder Ostler wasn't going to be upset that I went rogue and set a random date, but it turned out, that was the exact date he wanted to set with her, but wasn't going to until later. So that was cool. Spirit is awesome. 

We only have about 2 weeks left in the transfer and I have a strong feeling I'm going to get moved so I am trying to make the most of what I have left. This week we are having an Ex-Mission President from San Diego, the one from the District 2 (videos I had to watch before I came out) who is going to teach us something or something like that so that should be nice.
Love you all!
ps good to hear everyone I have ever talked to is reading this hahah. Chao!


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