Week 54- August 25, 2014- Pomona

Dear everyone,

This was a great week. We got to teach over 20 lessons, so it was

super busy. We had some extremely stressful days as well, but at the

end of it all, it was worth it.

As I said in my last email, Elder Merrill and I are in a trio with

Elder Crawford who came in from Boyle Heights. We have been working

really well as a trio and are getting a lot done. Elder Crawford has a

lot of energy, which has been great to bring about miracles.

Especially since Elder Merrill and I are both pretty calm, mellow guys

haha.

This week, the biggest miracle came from Sara,p. She is the lady I

told you about last week that went to church the day after we taught

her and was crying for a majority of the time. We went and taught her

the next day and gave her the date of baptism for this upcoming Sunday

(August 31)! Which she accepted. She has been doing great progressing

and accepting the gospel along with her 9 year old daughter, Jenny. We

also took them, along with Rigo, to see a baptism in our neighboring

district. It went super awesome, all three of them seemed to have felt

the spirit strongly. 

It is really interesting to think about this miracle that God has placed in front of us. I say this because we found her due to God blessing us because of our diligence when we were doing our best to contact 10 people before the night ended right before we went home at like 8:30 at night. And of top of that, the

first lesson with her was Saturday night 3 weeks before the 31st,

which was the last possible moment we could have taught her in order

to be baptized on her date. 

I realized a lot that The Lord blesses us when we put all that we have towards Him and especially in the last moment to test our faith. Trials precede the miracles is probably the biggest lesson have learned these past weeks. As we have been doing our best to be consecrated, we understand more that the trials of

faith are always going to come. And we might always ask ourselves why

those things happen? But those are the times that we need to pray in

order to redouble our faith and continue to be diligent. So that was

the big part I wanted to share. We are doing great, Rigo is doing

really well too and we are working really hard. Love you all!!

True doctrine understood changes behavior ;)