By 6 oclock in the afternoon we had worked with to members all day,
passing by all the lessons we were going to have, only to find empty
houses, and shattered hopes. So as we rode the calafia ( bus but more
ghetto ) up to the zone leaders area, I was a little bummed out. Seeing
that we had 0 lessons for the day, and Elder Morales was going to leave
the sector to give a baptismal interview for other missionaries. My day
was going down hill fast. As we arrived at the stake center more bad
news came. The other missionaries were going to be late. Waiting there
for 30 minutes, I devised a plan to leave with a member back to the area
to work alittle more before the night closed out. Yet once the other
missionaries came they just wanted to sit and chat. Wasting more and
more of my time. Honestly I was feed up. To watch as the leaders, my
example waisted time. And when I told them our situation they said no
worries. There are exeptions. Well taking control of the situation, I
told them there was no exeptions and that I was headed back to my area
to work, and I took a member with me. As there was no Calafia back to my
area, we started the trudge home. and just as I entered Real de San
Fransisco I realized that I didn´t have the phone nor anyway to
communicate with the other Elders. Well going on pure faith I figured
God would handle it. We left to go see the appointments we had in this
area. First door...empty...second house...empty....third
appointment....gone...so on and so forth. As we passed by the
appointments we had finding no one to be home. My hopes only sank deeper
and deeper, fearing I had done wrong and acted off of my emotions and
nothing more I felt like I had failed big time. So seeing as everything
had gone bad I figured I´d try to get ahold of Elder Morales to see how
to meet back up. Well the same thing happened over and over again. The
phones didn´t have minutes. The members werent home. Until litteraly we
had but one option left, that was the house of Ivan Peredez. whose
partner´s mom just showed up from Hondurus. As we entered the house,
they also had no more minutes. But out as we turned to leave. The mother
in law came out of the other room. and asked us to give her a blessing.
She was really sick with pneumonia. The coolest part was that she said
she had started praying 10 minutes before we showed up. And she said the
whole time whe was praying that we would come. God works... and when he
wants to he works fast. His children are important. and sometimes to
help them he lets his missionaries have terrible days :) but in the end
he knows they will be extremely grateful and very proud to be used as
his hands and trusted servents here on the earth.
The lord is there, God is your father, and never... never doubt in his love nor eternal grace.
Im keeping it short, just the spiritual this week. Hopefully you guys can imagine how impressive, and amazing our God is.
Peace, Love, and I got 4 letters from my fam, one from becca, 1 card
from gramsy and 1 package from the angelbuers :) the first mail so far
in TJ haha. just 3 months late :) I love you all tons. and I loved the
letters
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