Week 36

Hola Everyone!

I hope you've all had such an amazing week and had the opportunity to feel the spirit and share the amazing message of the gospel with others in whatever way that it may have been!! We didn't have much happen this week. It was a pretty normal week. And we also didn't have transfers, so we were a bit bummed about that. But we are excited to work super hard this transfer to find new people and have some baptisms.

We had quite a sad experience. We said goodbye to Brother Armando because he headed to the istmo her is Oaxaca to continue his military service. We've been spending a lot of time with their family and they also invited us to dinner like 3 times this week. We ate cake with them for my companion's birthday and did service and a little bit of everything!! So it was really tough to say goodbye to the brother.

Good heck, I have made some amazing friends here and my family is increasing every week as we are constantly finding amazing people here. It's great to see how dang much I truly have learned to LOVE the people here. They truly are amazing. I remember my first few transfers here and I remember when we would be walking in the street and some of the people would shout out gringo o guerro which meant white boy and I took offense to it. But now, everyone calls me gringo or guerro and they are my really good friends here. It's super funny and amazing!!

We also ended up finding an amazing family that we were teaching earlier but we lost contact with them for about two weeks. We thought they didn't want anything to do with us or the church. It was really tough because we absolutely love this family and they really have been such a blessing to teach and see the improvement and progression that they are making. So anyways, like I said, we ended up finding them again this week. It was literally a miracle and they even can to the baptismal service that we had and they really are progressing amazingly!! We even played an awesome game with their 3 daughters after one of the lessons we taught. Their such a dang amazing family and I hope and pray with all my heart that we can help them enter into the amazing covenants of baptism.

Little by little we continue to see amazing miracles out here in the mission field. Good heck, I think it gets harder every day and sometimes I feel like I'm not going to ever get to see my family and friends again because I'm never going to finish the mission. But the truth is that it is such an amazing to be here in the mission field and see the change in the lives of the amazing people of Oaxaca. I know that this church is true and I'm so grateful that my amazing parents raised me in the gospel so that I could have this chance to serve a mission. The atonement is real and just like Elder Holland said, It's impossible to fall further than the light of Christ shines. 

Good heck, I love you all so much and it's so awesome to hear that so many others are getting their mission calls. Keep pressing forward and holding tight to the iron rod and just like the Book of Mormon tells us, we will have eternal life!!!!

ELDER BLAKE