Dear family whom I love so dearly!!!!
This
week was an amazing week. We saw so many miracles in finding and
teaching. I felt so blessed and guided by the Spirit this week it was
incredible.
Elder Cook is fantastic, he has
taught me so much about being calm. About not letting the little things
that don't matter get to me, and enjoying the ride. He is such a great
companion.
Our first new friend was I. We
contacted her on the street and she said she knew us because we had said
hi to her sister-in-law and she had said that we were really friendly.
She said she like religion but that every church had their own
interpretation of the Bible. We were able to share the Book of Mormon
with her and tell her how the two books clarify and build on each other.
We passed by her store the next day and she had already begun reading.
We then discussed the topic of dispensations and we gave her a reading
assignment to study further. It was a testimony builder for me to know
that we don't know what affect we are going to have. One impression can
lead to amazing opportunities.
This week in
church was another miracle. Our branch is really catching the vision of
the Europe Area plan. One of our members brought his wife to church, who
isn't a member, and she thoroughly enjoyed it. We are excited to follow
up with her and help her to come unto to Christ to strengthen their
family.
Yesterday, as we were walking I saw an
old man that I knew, his name is S. Normally, we would have a
small conversation and go immediately into the Gospel, where he would
lose all interest. So I decided to try something different. We just
walked and talked with him. About life, about his trips to New York,
about dinner, and after, he invited us to come over tonight and talk
with him about our message. I was another great reminder that these
really are people, they have lives, things that are important to them.
Lastly,
the other day as we were gazing into a candy store, we noticed a woman
looking at our badges. We said hello, and she asked us if we were
missionaries. We said of course and she then explained how she knew the
missionaries for many years, and in fact, sh had decided that morning
that she wanted to go to our church. She said she missed the atmosphere
there. But, with her mother in the hospital, she went there instead.
What a miracle. She told us she literally woke up just to come to our
church. We set a time to go and visit with her, and are so grateful for
the missionaries before us who paved the way for us to find this amazing
daughter of God.
And now it's time for my
favorite part of the week, funny stories with Elder Tyson, color
commentating, Elder Cook. It was a wild one. We heard that the elders
from Inca were walking to one of their pueblos (for those Americans, a
pueblo is like a little town) and that it only took them like thirty
minutes. So we decided hey, why don't we do that? We will save tons of
money on bus tickets. So we we began, walking down this farm road, as
the sun started to go down around 6:30
and it got dark, fast... Cars were speeding by, there was no shoulder,
and no side walk. We walked a little and decided to say a prayer to
see if we should move forward, or back. We turned back. We
finished our day, and found out that there was a walking path to the
city.
The next day we decided to take the
walking path. It's only 7.8 kilometers (almost 5 miles for those
Americans) so we thought we could make it in an hour, hour and a half at
the most. We started at 6pm. Well, it got dark, and we couldn't see the city and we
knew when we need to be back, so we pressed forward. We finally made
it. After we passed through a huge tunnel with only the light of our
iPads to guide us... We made it at 8 pm. So we had two choices, turn
and go back, or try to catch a bus. My bus schedule said
that we missed the last bus by 10 minutes. We decided to try the
bus. As we approached the stop, we saw a bus. We sprinted to it and it
stopped. The bus was 10 minutes late!!!! It was a miracle! We took
the 15 minute ride to Manacor, and contacted the rest of the night.
We realized that, that wasn't our finest hour, but we got a good story
out of it. It was rough, but we made it through!!!! Hahahahaha
Love you all!!!!!
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