Week 47 - A Day Late

Hola Everyone!

Sorry this is a day late. After playing soccer for 4 hours in the heat yesterday, I got so sick I couldn't get out of bed.

I sure hope you've all had such an amazing week and that you've been able to feel the spirit in your every day lives!! Thank you all so much for the birthday wishes!! What an amazing blessing it is to be here in the mission. I'm constantly learning and especially learning from my mistakes!! I love what the Book of Mormon teaches us about happiness - that if we never felt misery or grief we wouldn't be able to feel joy and happiness!! How true that surely is.

This week not much happened, but I just want to share one short experience with you all. So we've been struggling with our investigators here and we haven't really had any that have been progressing. So anyways, I've been thinking so much on how we can find new people here so that we can bring others to this amazing gospel! So anyways, I was studying and the thought came to me that we have to contact old investigators.

So we looked at the contacts in our phone and we had a bunch of older investigators that we haven't contacted yet, so we called ALL of them. We made appointments with three of them and only one of them ended up working out! So we got to the house of this old investigator and we taught her about prayer and then we felt that we should talk about baptism. So we started teaching about baptism and why it's necessary and she accepted to be baptized!!!! So now we have four baptisms planned in the next two weeks. I'm super grateful for this amazing experience that we had.

I know this gospel is so dang true and that aw we live it, we WILL be happy in our lives. I know that God loves us and that He is always, always there for us. We just have to humbly ask sometimes to receive his help!! Have an amazing week and know how dang much I love you all!!!!

ELDER BLAKE

I received a random Facebook message from Sandro Emanuel Lovera Juarez. He sent a whole bunch of pictures and videos of Jordan. Him and his wife had Jordan over for his birthday. So grateful for members who make moments like this happen. Tender mercies for sure!

These are back from the end of June at Zone Conference in Puerto Escondido his first week.