Hey mom,
Thanks for the email. You all sound busy which is good. This week has been a good one for me as well. This past Wednesday was transfers. Elder Villanueva left to go to Hawaii and I got my new companion. He's super quiet and doesn’t like talk or say anything. But it's alright.
We also had a baptismal interview for one of our investigators, Sister Loida, and she passed. So we have her baptism coming up on the 11th and a few more are following. So that is really exciting.
Then the other day, we had to walk through a flood, which is never fun. We had set an appointment with a new investigator and when we got to the area where they lived, the whole place was flooded with about 8 inches of water, but we had set an appointment and we said we were going to be there so we ended up getting a little wet, but in the end had a great lesson.
So this last week I have just been on a finding spree. That's for some reason all I have been wanting to do. It is really the only thing that can keep me from being distracted and I am just tired of doing the same thing over and over again. I mean we have a lot of good progressing but I feel like you always need to be finding as well, which can be hard if you have progression. This last week we have really been working hard and trying to find. This one day we were in the process of finding a house of a less active member. We were looking forever. We then came to this street and we were walking down it trying to find the house and then we saw this other street branching off from the one we were on. I felt that we should go down it, but when I looked down it there was literally no one on the whole street except for this one lady who was washing clothes. So we just continued on. I then noticed that some of the houses had numbers on it. The number of the house we were looking for was 71. We were looking at 68 and the way we had come was houses 69 and 70 then it came to the corner where that other street was. So I said, I think 71 must be in that street we were looking at earlier. So we went back and when we entered the street, none of the houses had numbers on it. So we went up to the lady who was washing and we asked her if she knew the person we were looking for. She had no idea. The numbers of the houses were actually all messed up on that street. We then told her we were missionaries and asked if we could share a message with her and we ended up teaching her. It was a great lesson. She said that she believed everything that we had said and she wants her family to join on the next lesson. We then left, and right when that happened, we received a text from the less active member we were searching from and she directed us to their house and we were able to find them. It just made me think that I really do believe the Lord guided us. I think we were meant to first find that lady and teach her on the street. I remember something I heard, that the Lord will sometimes fail stop plan A so that you can do plan B. The finding of the less active member was stopped and we found someone else and in the end we even found the less active. It was a great experience for me.
Thank you for the email. All you sound like you are doing good. I miss you and the family and wish I could be there, but I know what I am doing is right and for the benefit of others and there is nothing else I would rather be doing with my life at this time.
Keep up the good things you are doing.
Love,
Ian
