Hows everyone doing? I couldnt be better here! This week was a good one! Elder Allen is doing awesome here in his training. He really radiates a lot of contagious excitement for the work which makes my time with him pretty enjoyable. I dont know how he does it, but he is already a great missionary, just lacks the Spanish right now which will come. This week we had a big focus on finding new investigators. With our combined determination, efforts, and faith we were able to find 9 new investigators by the end of the week! And a few of them that really have good potencial. It just shows how important diligence and faith is on the mission. And with it, the Lord blesses us! This past week we found a single women who lives only with her five year old daugther that has hearing problems. We found her only because we decide to knock on her door to ask if she knew one of her neighbors we were looking for. So like we normaly do, after asking we began to contact her. She says she would love to listen but in that moment had to go, but told us to pass by the next day. So, the next day we were able to go by and teach her. During the whole thing she showed so much interest and was very sincere. She expressed how in that moment she was going through a lot of hard times with her daughter and other family issues and when we passed by the day before it was a big sign of hope and a light to her. A similar experience happened the next day right before our lunch appointment. It was about 20 minutes before we had to be there so like good little missionaries would do, we took advantage of the time and starting contacting by our lunch appointment. the first door we knocked on, let us in! Her name is Alicia Galvan and since we didnt have much time we started sharing with her about the BOM. We were sharing about how it would bless her life and then she all of the sudden burst into tears and explained all the problems she was going through and how her husband had passed away about a year ago and how she had to raise her 8 kids alone. We were able to help her feel peace and the Spirit and she was very grateful for our visit. The Lord puts prepared people in our path!
So this week went well and we were able to finish it off on Saturday helping build a house a little which was cool! Anyways love you all and have a great week!
Elder Trent
mission bucket list number 9, Help build a house. Check
We helped an inactive member build his house by making the cement floor. it was fun and then we ended it by eating pizza with his family. and then a surprising treat, strawberry short cake! what? i didnt even know it existed here. it was soo good.
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