I'm starting to really realize how lucky I am to be able to serve
a mission. It’s been the happiest and most fulfilling part of my life. Even
though we aren't really seeing as much success as my last area right now I'm
pretty happy with everything.
Yesterday we had a FHE with a family from Venezuela who are housing our investigator who's from Caracas. He is really humble and had to leave his family so he could come here and afford to bring them here.
Yesterday we had a FHE with a family from Venezuela who are housing our investigator who's from Caracas. He is really humble and had to leave his family so he could come here and afford to bring them here.
In Elders Quorum we had a lesson on Pioneers, it's so amazing that
in the Spanish wards and branches there are so many converts. And almost all of them used to be Catholic, so
when they leave the church their parents basically disown them. On top of that
many of them had tons of crazy struggles just to get here in the states. It’s pretty crazy right now with all the deportation
stuff that's going down, and lots of families are really scared. The thing is
though that all these people were sent here by God so that they could accept
the Gospel and live a better life.
So here's a crazy story, so on Friday night we got a call from our Zone Leaders saying that they needed my companion to give a baptismal interview. They had gone to drop an investigator that was really flaky and not progressing and in the middle of explaining that they were dropping him he told them he wanted to be baptized! So Saturday we got to go to his baptism, which was in Westland 5th (my first area). When we got there the Elders Quorum president asked me to come with him to give a blessing to a sister that was hurting. So that was really fun to see him again and help him out. So we did splits and I went with him to some apartments Elder Bottari and I used to visit like every day. At first I was excited that I might see someone I know, and then all of a sudden we were at the apartment of one of the recent converts Elder Bottari and I used to teach all the time and we ended up really close with. When the woman saw me she got super excited and kept trying to give me a hug. It was a really neat experience because in the blessing it mentioned how she would be able to kneel and ask Heavenly Father for help. And later on we found out from some other sister that was there that she was having really bad knees and couldn't kneel like she used to when she prayed. So that was really an amazing experience.
So here's a crazy story, so on Friday night we got a call from our Zone Leaders saying that they needed my companion to give a baptismal interview. They had gone to drop an investigator that was really flaky and not progressing and in the middle of explaining that they were dropping him he told them he wanted to be baptized! So Saturday we got to go to his baptism, which was in Westland 5th (my first area). When we got there the Elders Quorum president asked me to come with him to give a blessing to a sister that was hurting. So that was really fun to see him again and help him out. So we did splits and I went with him to some apartments Elder Bottari and I used to visit like every day. At first I was excited that I might see someone I know, and then all of a sudden we were at the apartment of one of the recent converts Elder Bottari and I used to teach all the time and we ended up really close with. When the woman saw me she got super excited and kept trying to give me a hug. It was a really neat experience because in the blessing it mentioned how she would be able to kneel and ask Heavenly Father for help. And later on we found out from some other sister that was there that she was having really bad knees and couldn't kneel like she used to when she prayed. So that was really an amazing experience.
Later on when we returned to the baptism I ran into
Elder Mayer from the airport/CCM. He and his companion were visiting because
the investigator getting baptized was about to move into their ward, which is
in the West Mission. Anyways that was my crazy Saturday evening, lots of miracles!
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| Elder Bessey with Elder Mayer (Flew with him from Missouri to the CCM) |
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| All of the missionaries that have served in the Westland Stake with President Barlow |
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