May 26, 2015
Hola! :)
Wow! What a week!! :) It’s been a good one! :)
We’ll start out with a miracle. Do you remember Miguel?
Well, he has a baptismal date for the 6th
of June. It turns out he has a lot of problems and is just a
suuuuuuuper prepared investigator. We taught him a few times last week. We had
stake conference on
Saturday and Sunday
and for him to get baptized the 6th he had to go to the sessions on Saturday
and Sunday
si o si. So we get there Saturday
and find out that the water in his building had gone out and since he’s the
owner he had to fix it and wouldn’t be able to go to the Saturday night session. I
was heartbroken. We sat there for a few minutes in silence and I was like, what
the heck do we even say? I just prayed that my companion would know what to say
and find a way to get him to church. Well I looked at her, and she looked at
me. Neither one of us had a clue as to what to say. So I just pray that
Heavenly Father would help us. I just told him about how the Saturday night meeting was
very special and didn’t happen very often and I expressed the importance of
putting God in the first place and trusting him that everything would turn out
and he would be blessed, but he first had to show God his faith. He then said
"Give me 5 minutes and I’ll be out." What a miracle! Then we get
there and I couldn’t sit still because it started later than we thought it did
and I was like crap I only told him he needed to go for like 20-30 minutes and
here he is an hour later. The whole time I just had a thought come to me to be
calm and that everything would be okay. At one point in the Conference we told
him he could go and fix the water and he said "No, I’m fine. When I walked
in after talking to you guys my son in law came down and asked me if I needed
to leave. I told him yes and he said he would stay and fix the water, so I’m
not in a rush." I just died. I couldn’t even believe it! Every talk given
was just for him, and he felt it. He then told us that he needed this and he is
going to apply it in is life now. At the very end he said "Thank you so
much for insisting that I come." It was beautiful. A pure miracle of God!
(And he also went on
Sunday so he’s progressing nicely towards his baptismal date!)
Another grand miracle. NESTOR GOT BAPTIZED!!!!!!! :) It was
so beautiful! When we picked him up on
Sunday his hair was all cut and done up and he was just smiling
so much! :) His mom, dad, and brother all went to his baptism! It was a
beautiful sight! And while we was getting baptized I was watching his mom and I
have never seen her so happy before! Ah, again it was so beautiful! :) Then
after the baptism Nestor was probably the happiest I’ve ever seen him! We asked
him how he felt and he was super happy and content. Que dia hermoso! :)
So remember I told you that we were going to have an
activity as a mission yesterday? Well it ROCKED!!!! Ah it was so so so much
fun! :) We had a Soccer Tournament between the zones and then we ate Hamburgers
and watched Meet the Mormons! :) So I knew we would probably be playing soccer
so I was like Hey I’ll wear my contacts. But then I thought nah Hermana Ayre
will kill me. So I just went in my glasses. Well the first game in the
tournament we won in penalties which was awesome. Then came the second game. We
played against a zone of all elders. Not a big deal. Well at one point we’re just
all playing (and my team was rocking it) when the ball comes flying and hits me
in the face. My glasses are knocked off so I go and grab them quickly, see that
they’re in fairly good condition and say "Let’s go let’s go let’s go I’m
fine!!" :) Then an elder from the other team says "Hey hermana come
here, your eye is bleeding" and I’m like what?!?! So I touch it and sure
enough there’s quite a bit of blood. So walk of the field and tell them I’m
fine and to keep on playing. I go to the bathroom with another hermana and the
mission nurse. Sure enough I have a little gash in my eye. Nothing too intense,
but quite a bit bigger than I was expecting. jaja! Not to the point where I
need stitches so that’s a relief! I woke up this morning with a black eye. So I
look pretty hardcore if you ask me. I’m going to tell everyone that I went in
the villa. ;) Oh and as for me glasses, they’re kind of broken, but they still
work. So that’s good.
Well, I think I’ll wrap it up for today! How fun that we
both had holidays yesterday! USA:
Memorial Day ARG: Revolution Day (It’s a suuuper big holiday here!) Anyways, I
hope y’all had a really great long weekend. I love you all lots!!! :) Have a
great week! Remember, when we love the way the Savior does, miracle happen. And
of course, Stay Anxiously Engaged!! :)
xoxo,
Hermana Van
PS. I’ll try to send pics of my eye today, but if I can’t, you’ll get them next week!! :)
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