Dear everyone,
First things first, president
Villanueva came in! He is super awesome and very Mexican. He doesn't speak
English very well, but he is ready to work and get it done. He said he
wants to go on visits with all the
ZL companionships in this upcoming
transfer. I'm pretty excited for what's to come with him as mission
president.
This past week, we had an awesome
miracle. Like I had said last week, we didn't have anyone at church, so
it was a bit tough for us to see especially with the goal we had set
of 12 baptisms. This week I was praying a lot that I would have the
faith to achieve my part of the goal.
A few days after Sunday elder
Clark, one of the DLs that was in my previous zone, messed me on
Facebook. He asked that I go by one of his recent converts that lives in
my area. So, I decided to go over the next day since I had never met
her. We met her and her 12 year old daughter, Desiree. It turned out
that just the mom got baptized a few months ago, but not the daughter.
So elder Williams and I talked to the daughter for a bit and it
turned out that previously, she really didn't like what we shared and she
was really set on her catholic ways. She said that when the
missionaries came by to share something,
she would usually just go to her
room and not want anything to do with what they had to say (yes, a 12
year old girl was saying this). But a few weeks ago she went to girls
camp and she had an awesome spiritual experience. She felt the spirit
very strongly and knows she needs to change now, and she wants to get
baptized in the following weeks,
before July 30. It was an amazing
miracle we saw, we are very excited to help her get to her goal of
baptism!
My previous companion, elder
Williams, went home this morning. My new companion is elder Mitchell
Merrill. He came out at the same time Elder Fellows so he is about 3
months ahead of me, mission wise. It's
kinda funny, because they used to
be home teaching companions at BYU.
We had zone meeting this past week
as well. Since we didn't receive any instruction, we had to come up
with our own lesson. We based it off of an article in the July 1985
Ensign called:
"Spencer W. Kimball's vision of missionary work." I would sugges that all members
read it! One of my favorite lines
from it is: "Others see things and
say why, but I dream things that
never were and ask, why not?"
The Spencer Kimball added:
"The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics and cynics
whose horizons are limited by the
obvious realities. We need men who
can dream of things and ask, why
not?"
I love these quotes and the
reminder they give us on having faith. I
plan to continue to exercise more
of that so that we can accomplish
our great goals here.
Chao! Love you all!
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