Great week!
This week was the Holy Service Week. As in ´´Holy Cow, that's a TON of service! We literally ended up doing some sort of service project every day for the past 6 days. We hauled a ton of dirt to add to the church garden. We did a little landscaping at a house. Chopped someone's lawn with machetes (accidentally wrecked their tomato plants, sorry mom), Moved a ton of firewood, painted a kindergarten, built a table, and other stuff! Everywhere we went, something needed done! We didn't have very many appointments so we had time to do it. We ended up finding new people to teach too!
Earlier this week I read a talk called What Lack I Yet from the last general conference. Basically it tells us to ask God of the things that we need to improve on in our lives. Sometimes it is something we never would expect. A few days afterward I was thinking a lot and decided to ask the question. I felt like my answer was that I need to pray more sincerely. Kind of surprised me because I thought I was being pretty sincere in my prayer. But I decided that if I were to ask for advice, I had better take it when I receive it! So I tried to be more sincere in all of my prayers and it really made a difference.
We had a pretty good moment with our investigators the other day. We have almost taught them the all of the lessons and we are at the point where they really need to pray for their own answers before we move on. We planned on watching a movie with them but it didn't work so we just improvised. We just listened really. The mom has some issues that would need to be resolved before baptism and we just let her talk about it for a while. After we shared a scripture they called me to say the closing prayer. I asked if we could do a special prayer, kneeling together to bless the house and other things. They agreed. I definitely had some help from above during that prayer because I don't think I really messed up with my spanish. I also just said a lot of things that I had never thought of. I asked to help each of them receive their own answers from the spirit and other things. When I said Amen, I looked and they were both crying. Surprised me for sure. My companion told them that they were feeling the spirit testifying of the things they were feeling and that we would leave to let them ponder. It just felt great!
Sad news came this morning. A family in our branch lost their son last night to a really bad blood problem. Keep the Rojas family in your prayers.
That's my week!
Hope you all have an awesome week!
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