This past week was full of wonderful experiences from an accidental run in with Marcos to learning all kinds of Portuguese slang and words this has been one of my favorite weeks in the mission so far!
We had the Ramos Family and Marcos come to church yesterday which was phenomenal!
There has been huge progress with many of our investigators and they are so incredible and I am so grateful for the many blessings which we saw in this past week and thanks to my new companion Elder Santana I have really been able to enjoy the work in a different way!
It is still hard, and there are days where the work is difficult but I have come to feel and see more often how the Lord is working in every single one of the lives that we interact with on a daily basis!
One cool experience was with Mizael and Cinthia who are absolutely amazing because they were being taught by the missionaries a long time ago but they never got baptized because they weren´t married and they didn´t want to make the commitment, but then we were checking the registros (teaching records) and felt that we should visit them! It was so wonderful to have a lesson where the spirit was testifying to them of the reality of this Church and the importance of the principles of the Atonement and Repentance in their lives, and at the end of the first lesson, we felt a need to invite them to return to the church and become members! The wonderful thing is that they said, yes it is about time that we put God first in our decisions! And they also let us know that they had been feeling impressions to get married for the two young girls that they have and about a month ago they got married! So now it seems that they have been truly prepared to become members! They are so incredible and they have an iron-like resolve to be baptized!
A spiritual thought comes from the Elder Holland Talk in Abril 2009 of None Were With Him
Even though this is a Easter Video I feel like it is something we can always benefit from because:
I love these words he shared and I also would like to testify that Christ knows us, he knows our challenges and he can succor us (run to us) wherever we may be found! His loneliness means that we are never alone and that He stands with open arms to receive us the minute we turn our lives over to Him and say, Thank You for paying for me, please help me to make use of your gift and become more like You.
I hope you can find comfort from this video and that you can always remember our Savior Jesus Christ and strive to emulate His Perfection!
Elder Raven
