Week 37: Goals and Miracles

April 24, 2017

  Well this week was just fantastic! I learned a lot and we got to do some extra service for Earth Day so that was really fun! I was also able to see some miracles this week, it was a great time.

   So started off the week with exchanges to La Junta. I went with Elder Nelson to La Junta and had a really good day there. Elder Nelson is hilarious and we get along really well so that made it all the more fun. It was really cool because we set a goal at the beginning of the exchanges to find 3 new people that were interested in the gospel. By the end of the day the Lord had led us to the 3 new people which was really good because La Junta has been struggling with finding people to teach! 

   Super funny though because the last person we found was this lady that had a lot of energy. She said that she had seen us walking on the street that day and had prayed that she could learn about what the Mormons believe and then we showed up at her door, way cool! But she said she could read really fast and offered to read the whole Book of Mormon in 2 hours if we wanted to stay and then talk about it haha unfortunately we had to run. About an hour and a half later she called and was freaking out because she said she had read the whole Book of Mormon and was starting to think that the Mormons were right hahaha. So that was pretty cool.

    Another really cool miracle that happened was that the Saunders came back to church! At the beginning of last transfer they had told us not to come by any more because they had found another church which was sad. They are recent converts of several months. But a week ago we were prompted and went and stopped by to see how they were doing, they were doing good. But this week the called and said that they had some questions so we went over and they decided by the end of the visit that they need to come back to church, so cool! They were going to come yesterday but were sick! I am excited to see them at church again.

   Another fun thing that happened was being able to do service on Earth Day. The Parks and Rec of Pueblo had a big project going that was planting trees! We went with some other missionaries and planted 171 trees with other people from the community. 

    This week we got a referral for a man named Alvin, he is great! He was taught by missionaries a while ago and reached out again and his friend who is a member gave us his number. He is just a great guy and committed to be baptized when he finds out what we are teaching is true for himself, cool stuff. 

  It was a great week though, very thankful to be out here serving the Lord and spreading the good news! It is such a great work. Love everyone!

Also i have found my new favorite hobby, gardening! Some lady gave us some seeds and I got some dirt and planted them and it is awesome! And then today at dollar tree, they had a bunch of gardening stuff so i got another pot and some cool flowers to plant, I'm pretty excited about it all!