The Streets!

When it rains it pours!

Elder Torres the waterbender

Oaxaca!

First time being able to street contact!

Hello Everyone!!!! This week has been so amazing I don't even know where to start!

 

OK well first of all we finally received permission to contact in the streets, knock on doors, and eat with members!!! And oh my goodness it is so much fun! 

 

Another blessing is that out of nowhere I started understanding Spanish a lot better this week.  Which is great because we started talking to a ton of people this week!  I still don't understand everything but I get mostly everything from conversations and if not I understand the gist haha.  Members always say they think I understand really well but in reality I've just gotten really good at nodding and laughing at the right times 😂😂.

 

Another amazing thing this week was we had a devotional broadcast with Elder Holland!!!!! It was so incredible and it gave us a fire we needed to go and share this amazing gospel!  The Spirit was so strong and I know with all my heart that he is an Apostle of our Savior! 

 

Also the same day we got permission to go and contact in the streets, it started raining a ton. But it was actually so much fun trying to find places to cross the street-rivers and help people do the same haha.

 

The members always give us such good food but they give us so much and I always feel like. I'm going to explode because it's so much food 😂.

 

A very powerful experience for this week was when we were visiting a family.  The wife is a member and her husband is not.  We were talking to them and he doesn't believe in religion and he thinks it's silly that people do but he doesn't mind if we talk about it because it's what we believe. He also shared a story that he had a friend who was going through a rough time and his friend prayed for help. He told us that he thought this was ridiculous and that prayer can't make your life better. (Yes I understood all of this and was very proud of myself haha) At the end of our visit with them we wanted to close with a prayer and asked them if there was anything they wanted us to pray for.  As soon as we asked he paused and started crying.  He told us that a friend of his daughter had gotten into a car accident and wasn't doing well. He asked us to please pray for him.  The Spirit was so incredibly strong. After the prayer he thanked us and was still weeping. He told us we could come over at anytime.  This was so powerful for me because just 10 minutes before he was making fun of prayer but then the power of prayer softened his heart!  

 

I am so grateful to be a missionary and have such incredible experiences such as these. They strengthen my testimony so much and I know that this is the Lord's work with all of my heart. 

 

I love you all! Stay safe and let me know how you've been!!