Final P-Day

I am super busy today so I won’t be able to write much.  This week was good. I had a District Leader Training in Newberg and was able to see a lot of missionaries that I have served around and say goodbye to them. I got to see Elder Holt and that was a lot of fun! 

While I was gone, Elder Gutierrez got hit by a truck on his bike! By he is totally fine, so that is evidence of the Lord protecting us as missionaries. I had a great week with Elder Giles and Gutierrez. They are both awesome. 

I know that the Lord is directing this work. I know He is patient with us in everything and that He loves us. I am grateful to have been able to be a missionary!

Too Busy to Write

Don’t have a ton of time today, but thanks for all of your support. We had a good week. We had three people show up to church yesterday just randomly. We had never met them before, but they just walked into church, so that was awesome. It seems like the Lord has really prepared them. We had another missionary join our companionship this week for the last week, so that’s been good. Sorry I don’t have time to send a lot today. 

Blessed with New People to Teach

Our week was good! We were blessed with a lot of new people to teach. The Lord has been blessing us with people every day to hand out Books of Mormon to. It has definitely helped to grow my testimony that He will prepare a way for us to accomplish our goals if they are in accordance with His will. We have also been praying more specifically for the weekly goals that we have set, and have seen those goals come to fruition as well. We had one day where we were walking to an appointment and as we were walking, we saw a man in the stairwell of an apartment complex. We went to talk to him and then we walked with him for a few minutes and right after he left, we were right by a guy who was on his porch. He is a young man with a young family, and he was really nice and said we could come back this week. After that, we went back to our original destination of the first guy’s home. Apparently we had the wrong address, because he lived next door. But the blessing in that was that we were able to meet a man named Bill who was extremely nice and willing to learn more. He even helped on the construction of our church building! It was pretty amazing to see how the Lord guided us that entire trip and led us exactly where we needed to go. 

Baptism

The baptism went really well. Because of Lynne’s health, we had to have two people in the Font for the ordinance. We ordained Eric, who was baptized a month ago, about 30 minutes before the baptism and he participated in the ordinance. So that was exciting! Our Book of Mormon study class has been going really well. We have been getting consistently 20+ people. It’s really to the point where I feel like it could be a calling for someone because it is a consistent group of 20+ people. We are looking for some more people to teach. We had a ton, and now it kind of dropped off a little bit, but the Lord will provide more people to teach. Our 5th Sunday lesson was really, really good! We definitely were guided by the Spirit, but I really believe that is because we prepared pretty well for it. 

We saw a lot of good things this week. We have a goal to hand out a Book of Mormon every day this Transfer. We have only missed one day since we made that goal, and it’s because we didn’t pray for it specifically. We got really busy that day and it just didn’t happen. We were really busy Sunday, but we prayed about it and took 15 minutes and the Lord led us to someone right away. It was really cool to see that.