LOVE OF CHRIST
Perfect title. and I will explain. haha this week was kinda long. not as fast as usual. but it was amazing. my new companion elder Roldan. is fantastic. I have no complaints. he is awesome our spirit together is going to change this area. we are having a hard time in this area. with finding news. but hey. we are doing all we can. and thats enough. haha so yeah. this week. pretty good.
My companion is my best friend. not perfect but neither am I. and I have not had a single problem with him. we are so strong. we love each other. we work together well. and its so fun. I love it.
My cold. is still here. a little. I slept all day Tuesday. cause it got so so bad. I couldn't do anything. it was bad all week but I worked through it. took a lot of nasty meds here. haha but hey. I feel ok today. by next week it should be gone. haha
So wed we had a meeting as a zone and. we learned about the Book of Mormon why its true. and real without the spirit. just science and facts. about the mayans and stuff. super cool. it was hard to understand all the weird terms but! he had a lot of pictures. so I learned stuff too! hahaha it was so long =P and I was sick and sniffing and coughing the whole time so it felt longer. but he had 364 slides. that's like 1 a day for a year. haha yeah.
so I saw a very small like ford ranger type of pick up truck. with two cows in the bed. what? who put that there?! haha so funny for me. hahahaha
so my comp made the hermanas mad. cause we used to work a lot with them with the new rule where we give them all our women investigators. and with my new comp he thinks its bad. which I guess it is. but I didn't know. so now we rarely talk or see them. haha they got mad with him. but he said something to make them mad. and me. being sly in the ways of the words. solved everything and after he called me a piyo haha I guess it means like good with words. it was so funny. haha I guess I am. I said its cause I grew up with 5 women in the house. you learn or you die. haha its much funnier in spanish. aprende o morir I cant spell but yeah. we were laughing so hard. also piyama is sleep over. in case you were wondering. haha so yeah sat we had to fill up the baptismal font at 120
so sat. was crazy had a cita at 130 and another at 2 but like 40 min of walking in between so we just said. no. cancel. so at 2 we went and had 2 lessons. so now it 320 ish right. walking time. and so after we had to run for like 20 min to get to the store bought a cake. took a taxi to open the chapel. turned off the water set up the chairs. had a lesson. and a blessing set up another room and yeah. for our classes of english. it was just crazy. I was so stressed out. we ran for hours to get everything done. haha thats my point. you had to be there. and after we did splits. but first, my companion had a miracle during the blessing we gave. just he was just guided. haha it was cool. the spirit was so strong. that night we did divisions. with members. and I went and taught. and I felt like we needed to pass by this house. and teach an old investigator. we taught about faith. and at the end. I felt the spirit yelling to me. i just blurted out. AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF JESUS CHRIST I know that if you pray tonight with faith. god will answer you. tonight. everything went quiet. and she said. I will pray. I know I need to. the spirit like smacked us all in the face. and I learned so much. crazy. haha it rocked.
on a funny note. my companion calls weird kids that are like really nerdy and needy of their mom. he calls them mommy! haha in a really high pitched voice in his bad English. hahaha its so funny. he was like that guy was really ... mommy right? hah so funny.
so domingo. we had a baptism of an amazing woman her son is member. since November. and he had the chance to baptize her. they are both a little... slower. amazing but its hard for them to remember things. so they went in the water. and he says. oh gracias senor. to start his prayer. I was like crap. haha so I stopped them. and fed him the words. and it was great. but she didn't even come close to going under. so we tried again. nothing. she didn't come close again. and she just floated. after he tried to put her back up she didn't put her feet back down she is like 90 haha so he was just pushing her across the water. it was so funny and sad and scary. I took off my shoes cause i thought she was going to drown. I was so scared. so I decided to take of my suit. I found white pants and I put it on. and I jumped in in my white shirt and white pants. haha super fast. so I explained everything in the water with them. and we tried to baptize her. didn't work. so she came up. and I was squatting in the water to be at her level so she could feel I loved her and I was trying to help.
I said hey at least the waters not cold right? and she laughed. and we tried again. nothing. 2 more times nothing. haha we just couldn't do it. for a new reason every time. like he would push her under but hold her hand out of the water or something. so the last time. we tried. was the most amazing experience in my entire life. I got down on her level. and I said. we are going to do it this time. grab your nose hard and hold your breath ok? she was just smiling. I just said. you have your son. trust him. can you feel his hand on your back. and she said yeah. and I said. I will have mine a little higher. can you feel it. and she said yeah. than we did the prayer. perfect. I grabbed his arm cause he had both hers right. and I just pushed a little harder being as gentle as possible but firm to do it. and it was valid. perfect! she came out of the water. and she said. before I told her it was valid. she said. in spanish. que rico, gracias senor.
wow. just wow. here rico means usually used as a term for oh this food is super good. but when used like the way she used it. que rico.. than gave thanks to god. wow. the whole room went from uncomfortable to crying. wow. 7 trys to get her under the water like 12 with the prayers. she was baptized and what an amazing experience for all of us there. it was beautiful I was crying so hard. I love her. to see her son baptize his mom. to have her be able to go to heaven with him. just wow. changed my life.. I will always remember this experience. I loved it.
what an amazing week. god blessed me in so many ways. the spirit in that baptism. was. incredible. what a week. I love it here.
I love you all I miss you. do whats right. look for the lords hand.
I love you.
Love elder Evans.
I made a snow man from the ice build up in our fridge. ahha after had a snow ball fight.
oh and my companion taught me something important.
Al Infinito Y Mas AYA!!!!
it means. to infinity, and beyond. hahahaha
No comments:
Post a Comment