Happy New Years to everyone!
Just in case anyone was wondering, we
got to watch the Rose Parade. It
was pretty cool. The first and last
time I'll ever be there as a
missionary. It was funny to see
people's reactions when they
recognized that we were missionaries.
People from all over the world
were there. Overall, it was a fun
experience.
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| At the Rose Parade |
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| Super Heroes at the Parade |
Earlier in the week we had a District Leader meeting. It was good to
see a lot of missionaries I hadn't
seen in a while. It was pretty
good, though. Got to learn a lot.
Just a reminder that I still have a
lot to learn!
Even earlier in the week, I got to go
on exchanges with the zone
leaders to my old area in Lincoln Heights. It was awesome to see some
people that I used to work with. I
got to see Rosy (the less active
member who did our laundry), and Jose
Mendez, in specific. Rosy was
being very tremenda, as usual, and
would only call me by my first name
hahah. I don't know how she got it,
though. Jose is doing really
awesome, too. He has progressed a lot
spiritually, and physically
since I first met him. Interestingly
enough, his neighbor was actually
a less active lady who Elder Ramos
helped get back to church and on
top of that baptized her non member
daughter. It's crazy how the Lord
puts things into place. It was nice
to be back! Only downside was that
my exchange companion and myself were
both stuck with the gripa and it
was raining pretty hard the whole
day. But I enjoyed it!
Later in the week, Elder Lane and I
did a booth on one of the major
streets in our area with one of the
English companionships that live
next to us. It was a pretty fun
experience! It didn't turn to be very
successful, but we found what we need
to improve on and we are
planning to give it another shot.
Later in the night, I went on
exchanges with Elder Bishop, the new
Elder from England that I
mentioned in the Skype calls. It was
a pretty fun exchange. All I have
to say is that whatever stereotype
you have about english people, is
probably true. He is a very talented
person, though.
Sunday came around and we got to go
to church, yeah! A lot of people
were still out of town and doing
things else where so we weren't
really overwhelmed with the amount of
people that came to church. But
another miracle, Rudy came to church
on his own. The lesson we were
going to have with him last week
canceled, but his sister invited him
and he went, so we are planning a
family home evening with them. Jose
Romero keeps coming as well! (The
returning less active we met on the
train). We finally got to have a
lesson with him when I was there. We
shared with him top he Book of
Mormon. It was such an awesome lesson.
He shared with us some spiritual
experiences he had had in order to
help him change and be better. When
he was investigating in the church
as a 14 year old he fasted for 4 days
in order to find out that it was
true!
Experiences like this make me realize
how important small and simple
gestures and actions go a long way. I
love The Lord. Love you all!
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