LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCE

"Angels are still sent to help us....both the heavenly and 

the earthly kind."

 This is it! I never have to write a weekly email again! That might be the best part about going home hahaha. This week was a lot of ups and downs but overall it ended well.  The beginning of the week was extremely rough with a lot of our people not going through with lessons and some moving out of state and stuff like that. We also gave 2 of our on Dates to the sisters because they are getting baptized the Saturday right after we leave. But this weekend was a blast, Calvin was baptized!!! I've been teaching Calvin for 8 months now and he was finally able to get baptized, it was one of the best baptisms ever.  Everything went so smoothly and I was able to baptize him which was so cool. Then Sunday was extremely sad because we were supposed to have 6 people and for the whole first hour nobody showed up.  Luckily we have sacrament meeting for the 2nd hour and during the sacrament I was praying so hard that at least 1 person would come, and the next thing you know I looked behind us and our Ulisis was there with his mom and sister.  It was an answer to my prayers for sure.  Ulisis is on Date for this Saturday so fingers crossed that he can make that date.  Then Sunday night we saw so many miracles.  We found 5 new people and one of them was reading for 30 minutes as we knocked all the other apartment doors he was just sitting on the stairs reading the whole time it was awesome. Well I hope everyone has enjoyed my silly weekly emails it's truly been the most life changing experience I have ever had! I couldn't have asked for anything more beneficial for my life! I've learned what life is truly about and how real God is! And yes he is a God of Miracles and works through people like us to perform his miracles! It's been a wild ride and I am so extremely grateful for all the support and all the love everyone has shown me these past two years! I love the Lord with all my heart and can honestly tell you with everything inside me that the church is true and the book of mormon is the word of God!! 

SMALL MIRACLES THAT REMIND  

US HE IS THERE

"Be the reason someone feels welcomed, seen, heard, valued, loved and supported."

 Another week down and my favorite people got married, Calvin and Macee got married on Saturday and they looked so happy. I taught Calvin for about 7 months in my old area, and he wants to get baptized so bad but he had to get married first. So now he will be getting baptized this Saturday and I'm lucky enough to go to the baptism. We also had a baptism on Saturday which was awesom.  Hector got baptized and it was such an amazing experience, his wife had been a member for a long time and so it was cool to see how excited they both were that he was making this decision.  One of the coolest parts about the baptism was the testimonies while they were changing, Sister Carpenter got up and shared her testimony and then she told Hector that ever single one of her kids was praying for Hector the last 2 weeks. It was so cool to see how supportive the members have been and how powerful prayer is. That was probably one of the easiest baptisms I've ever had. He had no doubts, problems, nothing. And I believe it was because of all the prayers for him.  Sunday was also a great day, we had a rough start and not a lot of people came to church. But later on Sunday night we were extremely low on new people to teach and the Lord just put us directly in a path to find 6 new people in like 30 minutes, it was crazy how the Lord just waits till the last second so that we can learn grow and have to lean on him, and right when we feel like nothing is going our way he performs a small miracle that reminds us he is there.

BACK TO SPANISH

"God will use you to make the lives of others better."  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

 Hello everyone sorry I didn't get one or last week it idk what Happened. My pday is today because we get to go to the temple for the last time as a missionary.  We are going to play ball right after with a bunch of other elders.  This week was really weird, being back in spanish and with Elder Flickinger is extremely weird. It's like I'm repeating the start of my mission all over again. But this week we had some really cool miracles happen, most of them Happened on Sunday. The whole week was extremely long and we were trying to hard to find new poeple to teach and by Sunday we were only at half our goal that we set. Then Sunday we were blessed with so many people just placed in our path. Everyone we ran into was ready to recieve the gospel.  We found 11 new people on Sunday and put 1 of them on date. We are going to have another wedding and then baptism the last week we're here the girlfriend speaks French so it's going to be just like Diego and Michaela at the very beginning of our mission.  We had our last zone conference last Tuesday and me and Elder Flickinger did the musical number. It was the highlight of everyone's zone conference... it was hilarious and everyone in the mission now has a video of Elder Flickinger and me singing Nearer my God to thee 🤣  We also had to give our Departing Testimonies that zone conference as well which was wild. The 4th of July was alright, Holidays on the mission are just not the same. But we watched some fireworks and counted how many people lit off fireworks in the middle of the day. There were so many people! We stopped counting after 20. The best part about the 4th of July is all the latinos have it off but they have no clue why so we were able to teach a lot of people that day!