Week 93

Hola Everyone!

I’d have to say that it’s been a week of MILAGROS (MIRACLES)!! Because my goodness, we sure have seen so dang many that is for sure!!

So to start it out, about two months ago my companion, Elder Ixmata and I went to a place called La Colonia Simona Robles. Anyway in this colony, there are about 20 houses and it’s basically in the middle of nowhere . . . kind of like Blanding haha! But we found out that there are a lot of members there, but they are less active and have family members that aren’t members of the church. So we went by their houses and talked to them for a bit.

Now two months later and my companion and I are having difficulties finding new people to teach. As we were planning the day, the Holy Ghost whispered to me that we need to go back to that colony. So we went back and we visited two families - Sister Elizabeth and her family and Sister Abigail and her family. Their husbands and kids aren’t members yet! So we invited Sister Elizabeth to church because we visited her on Saturday. We didn’t visit Sister Abigail until Sunday. Anyways with a single INVITATION they went to church! They as in Sister Elizabeth and her three kids. And she hadn’t been to church in 8 years!!! And soon we hope that 10 year old son Saul will be getting baptized!! WHAT A MIRACLE!!!

Anyways, so there’s one miracle and here goes the second!! So after church on Sunday we went home before we ate, basically just to fill up my little bottle with more consecrated oil because it was about running out. So I took it out of my bag and put it on the table and the spirit immediately told me to put it back in my bag. So I obeyed and we couldn’t even find any more oil. So we went to eat with our missionary leader, a super cool dude named Melvin. He’s super straight forward about everything! Anyway, we finish up with him and every Sunday at 4 we help a sister give English connect classes - and they got cancelled for the very first time in the 4 months since I’ve been here! So we were walking back to an appointment we had as a backup plan and we had to pass by the hospital to get there. So as we pass by the hospital, a recently returned missionary stopped us and asked if we had consecrated oil with us!! We gladly responded yes and he told us that his mom was going into surgery and he wanted to give her a blessing before but he forgot his oil at his house!! We weren’t just able to give him the oil, but we were able to help give his mom a blessing!!!

It is so amazing how our Heavenly Father works with us!! It was so amazing to see how everything had to fail or go bad at first so that the miracle could take place! I know that miracles still do exist and if we have faith, we will see so many miracles in our lives!! I didn’t see angels or Jesus Christ himself. But I sure did see a lot of miracles this week - even if they might have been small things, they are still miracles!!

I love you all and hope you have an amazing week!!

Elder Blake