Week 25

 Saludos!!

So basically this past transfer has been really tough because my companion and I have the same time on the mission and we are both very new missionaries, and at the beginning of the transfer we worked so hard and saw barely any fruits from our labors because we didn't really know what we were doing.  So that was a little discouraging because we had good intentions, and wanted to do good, but we didn't have enough experience.  For 6 weeks we had close to zero people that came to church and that were keeping commitments.  

That brought us to our knees in prayer to find out what the heck we should do differently.  

After many prayers we both felt like we should drop about most of our teaching pool ( 25 people) and start from scratch again.  As we did that we found more people that were ready to hear our message!  We even had 5 people come to church on Sunday.  

It just comes to show that prayers work.  We had problems, prayed, and later had success.  God wants us to pray and ask for help so that he can give us help.  He is literally there waiting for us to reach out to him to give us strength.  That being said, why not pray every morning and every night, it's kind of a no-Brainer.

We met Gricel this week.  This lady has been talking to the missionaries for over 10 years and she has one son who is 16 and active in the church, and another son who's on a mission in Colombia.  We actually got in contact with her son in Colombia and he wanted to be in a lesson with her.  We read Alma chapter 32 together and it was really special.  Her son bore his testimony and he made her cry because she was feeling the spirit so much!  Then she came to church that Sunday for the first time in 6 months!

We also met some inactive members this week, the reason why they said they don't go to church is because their kids used to be loud in the service and a bunch of people asked them to take control of their kids.  So they stopped coming.  After about a few months of going inactive, they started to get random texts from people and they said something along the lines of, "Hi! Come back to church" and that was it.  They didn't feel like the people really cared about them. They felt like the people were just doing a checklist and it didn't seem personal.  They later then told us that if members would have come over to their house and truly shown their love for them, then maybe they would have visited the church again.  The moral of the story is, this family is not the only family that feels like this, there are tons in every ward, that don't feel loved in the church.  And we should always do everything we can to show Christ's love for everybody.

Anyways if any of you guys have a Book of Mormon, I encourage all of you to read Alma 32, it's very cool.

Que vayan con Dios!

Deuces EL