Honestly this week I saw so many blessings through the work of the Lord. This week has had its up and downs but Elder Santiago and I just look forward because I know that in the end the Lord will not leave us to hang. This week we focused on preparing 2 of our investigators for their baptismal dates this weekend. Yes I am so excited we have 2 baptisms this Saturday and Sunday. It is going to be a week of preparing them for their baptismal dates. I am so excited for them and had such great experiencias with them this week. They both told us how they had received their respuesta that this church was the true church. One of them May and I have been teaching for 2 o 3 months now and she told us this week that she recieved her respuesta and was ready to be baptized. It honestly made me so happy to see that she had felt so well in this Gospel and now wanted to be a part of it. After months of diligent work with the Lord and with Hna Patricia she is going to be baptized this Saturday and Hna Veronica Domingo. Holy cow it makes me so happy to see these things happening after months of hard work to get this area back up and to help the barrio. Something that I have learned that it is not me doing this work it is the Lord. I am only his representative and he is working through me. That was the only good thing that happened this week. This week in the capilla tuvimos 7 investigadores. Holy cow how happy that made me to see 7 investigators en la capilla feeling of his love and consuelo. How happy that made me honestly especially because one investigator arrived after just contacting him in the street for 5 min. He is super interested and we have a cita with him tomorrow. I am so excited to continue teaching more hijos de Dios.
Honestly I loved the Conference that we had two weeks ago and have thought a lot about the words from Elder Oaks saying that the little things eventualmente grow into big things. I found a scripture this week that I shared with an investigador that is struggling to stop smoking. It is in Alma 32:27, I love this scripture and told the Hno that with a little bit of fe and esfuerzo he could stop smoking but he needed to believe in himself first.
27. Mas he aquí, si despertáis
Even if it is only a desire to believe there are blessings that are going to come and your fe can grow stronger and stronger. We left this cita and had another one with this Hno and he had dropped the cigarettes. He was able to do it! It made me so excited and was an example to me that though our diligence and efforts we can do it even if it is a little bit because it will grow stronger we just have to have the desire. Anyways it was a good week for the work and I am so grateful for the experiencias I am having here!
Today we played basketball, soccer, and volleyball with other Elderes. It was a good time, got some nice sun! Haha hope you guys are doing good and have a great week! Oh ya this week I also bought myself a playera de México and wore it today to play haha. When I bought the playera I looked in the mirror and told myself that I don´t play soccer haha because it looked like I was about to rip out of it hahahahha. I love the people, culture, and food here.
Elder McCain
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