El Parque Coming Through Big Time

Hola amigos!

This week we were able to teach more. We had a few surprise lessons with investigators by just showing up at their house haha. I don't love showing up uninvited but if that is how we get them to listen to the gospel. I am all for it haha. We walked in and one of our investigators from Puerto Rico was watching a Yankees game so I got to talk about baseball for once!

We had a really crazy funny experience this week. We went to go knock a door in a town called Verona. I am pretty sure the population is like 45 there but we knew this house was Hispanic so we went. So we knock and this man opens the door and he is just wearing his garment top. Yes he was wearing garments. We were so shocked because if soeone is endowed, we would have record of them haha but we didn't have their records. Well they were actually just visiting from Honduras but they are super active members in Honduras. It was super crazy that we happened to find them though. The people they are visiting are not members though so hopefully something will happen there!

We struggled finding people this week. Not just teaching but we had problems even just finding Hispanics. So we decided to go to Waynesboro (where there are more Hispanics) and on Saturday we were able to contact so many people. Earlier we had gone to this park and talked to this lady and gotten her address so we decided to go back to the park and we talked to like 5 different Hispanics in 20 minutes. It was awesome. Street contacting is kind of awkward but its super effective. People just give us their address and phone numbers too which I think is slightly odd but I don't mind. Its even the correct address. So that's awesome.

I know this is the Lord's work. I know that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God and that the Book of Mormon is the most true book on the earth!

Hola from Virginia

Hola Amigos!

This week we had interviews with President and it was great. He talked to me about Matthew 14 when the apostles are sent to travel the Galilee during the night and the only traveled about 4 miles the entire night. Then Christ comes at the 4th watch which would be between 3 and 6 in the morning.  He let the struggle all night and then went and saved them. Why did he let them struggle all night? Why does the Savior let us go until we almost break? The answer is we don't know. The point is we worship a 4th watch God and that is just the way it is. I know that He lets us struggle for a reason and I know He will always come and help us even if it is not until the 4th watch.

Back in March we were trying to contact all the members that live in our area and we went to this house and met Jorge. Jorge is the ex husband to the member. We gave him a Book of Mormon but never really went back because he didn't seem that interested. A few weeks later I added him on Facebook not knowing it was him. We started talking and he told me that I had come to his house and given him a Book of Mormon. So I asked him if he had a chance to read it. He said that his ex wife took the book but he wanted to read it. So we went back and gave him a new  one. We tried to set up an appointment but we could never get the 3rd female thing to work out. So I just talked to him on Facebook every now and then.  Well he recently messaged me saying that he had a question and then we were able to set up an appointment and teach him and his kids! I love Facebook and am so grateful we have it to use as a tool to do the Lord's work.

We had dinner with members on Sunday and we had cafe rio so that was a blessing!!!

We had Stake conference this week and a 70 visited the stake I am serving in. Elder Sinclair shared so many great things. A few things were that we need to be quick to help and slow to judge. The atonement of Jesus Christ makes things better than what they were before. We need to change our perspective so we can change others. Our purpose is to invite others to partake of the healing power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ.

I love you all and hope you have a great week!!!

Revelation is Real

Hola amigos!!!

I love being a missionary. Its awesome. We have done a lot of finding lately and not as much teaching but its still been pretty great :)

Its been really rainy here lately. One day we were out trying to find and it started pouring. Within 5 minutes there were giant puddles in the street. So we went to go contact one of our investigators and we prayed right before we got out of the car and I heard a voice say "what are you two doing out here?" I asked Hermana Barton if she heard it and she said no but she said she felt like we should go somewhere else. She felt impressed to go to the laundromat which is weird because we have not seen a Hispanic there ever. So we drove to the other side of town and went inside and there was a Hispanic lady and her two kids. It was insane. We started talking to them and then we brought out the Book of Mormon and this other lady came up to us and pretty much kicked us out but the Hispanic lady told us we could come by her house and then gave us her phone number! :) It was so awesome.

We went on exchanges this week and we were out and about trying to contact someone and we drove by a less actives house and he was outside with one of our investigators. We stopped and ended up  reading in the Book of Mormon with them. They happened to be drinking some beer and they were really uncomfortable that we had stopped by. Its kind of crazy how uncomfortable people are drinking in front of us. Even people who don't know that we don't drink.

We were able to talk to some pretty cool people this week and we are excited to keep working with them!!

I love you all!!!