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| New companion in Pomona, Elde Williams |
We started this week with MLC with
President Becerra. It was our last MLC that we will have with him. The meeting
was awesome, the spirit was super strong. I feel intake every time I go to MLC
I understand why I was called to my certain situation at this certain time.
It's pretty amazing how that works. At the end, President and Sister Becerra
each shared their testimonies and we all sang Arcadia United together (ask Bro.
Palazzo what that is). President Becerra told us that President Villanueva is
coming the 1st of July and less than 24 hours later the next day we have a
meeting with him. I can only imagine what would be going through his mind haha.
He has to make some huge changes in his life, but still has to keep working
like nothing happened.
This week, we got to do a couple of
exchanges. One that I really enjoyed was with one of our district leaders named
Elder Marchan. Elder Marchan and I are going to be finishing our missions
together so we are from the same generation. He is originally from Mexico but
came from Houston, Texas. He shared his conversion story with me, which was
pretty amazing, so I thought I would share it here too. Elder Marchan and his
mom got baptized when he was 10 years old in Texas. But due to some really bad
stuff happening with one of the stake leaders and their family, they went
inactive. Fast forward 10 years and Elder Marchan is now living in Houston with
his cousins and uncles who are all active members. He said he never went to
church still and didn't really care much for it. He lived with them so he could
work, which he had to get up for at 4 a.m. everyday.
He went on saying that he
slept on the couch in front of the TV, this TV had the del parson painting of
Jesus Christ on top of it. The room in which he slept in had very squeaky floors,
squeaky to the point that it would wake him up if he was asleep. So this one
Saturday night, he stayed up way too late watching movies. He went to sleep
just to wake up at 2 am and not be able to go back to sleep. He looked up at
the Jesus Christ picture and he said it was smiling at him. He was kind of
freaked out haha because on top of that, there were 4 ensigns stacked on the
table in front of him and this table was empty when he had gone to sleep. But
the thing is, he didn't hear anyone walking on the wood floor so he said that
only God could have put them there. So Elder Marchan told me that he decided to
kneel down and pray for the first time in 10 years.
In this prayer, he told God
he will do whatever he sees on the ensign magazines for Him. So he finished his
prayer and opened up the first magazine to a random page and it was all about
missionary work. Marchan said he was like "yeah right, I'm not going on a
mission!" So he opened up the next 3 and they all talked about missionary
work and going on missions! Haha so in a few hours he called his boss telling
him he couldn't work and his boss was actually right about to call him to tell
him not to come to work. At this time, Marchan knew that he had to go back to
church and get ready.
He went to his closet and found a pair of church clothes
he said he had never seen before and got ready for church and waited on his
family to go out. He talked to his branch president about going on a mission
and he responded by giving him a stack of books such as the bible, Book of
Mormon, preach my gospel, etc.. It was pretty funny because he said that he
didn't even know there was such thing as a Book of Mormon hahah. So for the
next few months he studied and studied and studied and then turned his papers
in and now he's here! I thought it was pretty amazing! I'll let you take the
moral of the story how you want!
This past week was a bit better
than last, we are starting to find more people and we had some more people
progressing so things are starting to move forward. We bike a lot more here so
I think I am starting to lose a little bit of weight hahaha. I'm still getting
a little used to this side of the mission, but so far, it's been pretty cool!
Te quiero mucho!
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| Clarissa's baptism in Arroyo |
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