I think our miracle of the week was when we were able to start teaching this woman named Miriam. So I'll give a little background info on the story...
Now that all the missionaries have smart phones in our mission, we are able to have our area book in there with all the people we are currently teaching and have taught in the past. So there was a process when all the paper teaching records were transferred over to be put in the phone, but little did I know, that all the paper records hadn't been transferred over yet. When I started to whitewash the area 8 weeks ago, we weren't told that there were more records that hadn't been put in the phone, so we decided to start stopping by and seeing if these people still lived at the addresses we had.
One of the records I pulled out was for a young couple who had been last taught by missionaries in 2013. When we stopped by, we were able to meet Miriam, but she told us that she has recently separated from her husband and that she was raising her 3 kids now (a 7, 4, and 2-year-old). We were able to share the Book of Mormon with her during this contact and we set up a return appointment and told her we would bring a member from our church to the next lesson.
We had planned to go back on a Friday night, and we had a home visit that same night with an hermana and her 2 kids. We have brought this hermana to lessons with us because she knows her stuff, but better yet, she would be a perfect match for Miriam. So after we had a hyped up home visit, we took her over to this lesson with Miriam and they were hitting it off super well. The member we took also went through a divorce and has 4 kids herself, so she was able to testify of how much the Gospel has blessed her family's life. Miriam's 2 year old was crying for the first little bit, but once everything settled down, Miriam was able to tell us how she really appreciated us going by in the past and that she is still looking for Christ's true church. We were able to share the message of the Restoration and we invited her to be baptized on the 26th of this month and she accepted.
Unfortunately, she had already planned to be out of town this last weekend, but we will just have to work extra hard to have her be baptized this month.
Our mission set a goal of 103 baptisms for this month, which is doubling up on our July goal, but everyone around the mission has a lot of faith right now and there is some good energy going around!
Other than that, I went on exchanges with Elder Aland on Saturday. I got to do a little bit of office elder work with him and it was a pretty successful exchange.
The temple on Wednesday was a special experience! We were able to get some cafe rio as well to top off our mini pday and then we went and taught Juan Vargas. Juan is doing well and we are getting him more prepared to do family history work/temple work!
Its still hot here, but the more we teach, the more we get to be out of the heat!
Elder Moon
When i was on exchanges on saturday, we ate at members home and he made rib tips, carrots and potatoes. it was good stuff and in the spiritual thought, one of the other elders shared the FB challenge where you post one word about the BoM. So i decided to do that on Sunday, but i think the challenge is over now.
Clarity. That's what the Book of Mormon gives me as I learn how to keep God's commandments!!#oneWORDtheWORD
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