Hello everyone!!!
It has been a crazy hard week. We worked our butts off this week
and unfortunately haven´t seen many of the blessings from it yet. They
will come though...we just have to be patient. But the great thing is is
that I love my new companion. She is really laid back and not high
strung at all, but is an incredibly hard worker as well. It is great.
We did not have a ton of success this week and have been struggling
to find people to teach and had an impossible time in trying to help
people get to church.
We also advertised for our English Class this week like crazy...but
only one person showed up. Not even the people that usualy come came.
It was a pretty discouraging week to say the least. And there was a big
drama over the weekend of Moises saying that he wanted to be baptized.
We did everything we could to make it work out for him because he was
really ready to let go of everything and give it all in order to have
the gift of the Holy Ghost with him. But last minute I guess he decided
that he wasn´t quite ready and he didn´t show up for his baptismal
interview and rejected all our calls. But...he is going back to Chile.
He left this morning. I talked to him on the phone and he thanked us
from the bottom of his heart for teaching him about the Gospel and
helping him feel and recognize the spirit. He told me that he will for
sure find the missionaries down in Chile and get baptized down there
where his family can come to his baptism. And he plans to come visit all
us missionaries in Utah in a 1 1/2 as a baptized member of the church. I
really hope that everything works out for him and that he never forgets
all the things he learned and felt here. I hope we were able to change
his life as much as he has changed ours. We really learned a lot about
others and about ourselves in teaching Moises.
Well, the one really great miracle that I really appreciated from
this week, was how we were really an answer to Moises´s prayer on
Wednesday. He had been having a really difficult time and really wanted
to talk to us. He was over in the area where we lived and for some
reason just decided to look for us instead of trying to call us. He had
been feeling alone and had been praying for Heavenly Father to help him
not feel so alone and hoping that he could talk to us. Well, we were
just about to go out after medio dia and we had plans to go stop by a
few less-actives. But just before we walked out the door I had the
random thought that we should go make some copies of our fliers for
English class and take them with us to post and to hand out to people.
So we went across the street to do that. On our way back, Moises was
able to find us. He had no idea if we would be at appointments, or at
the church, or what. But our change of plans allowed him to find us.
He then told us all about how he didn´t think that God was
answering his prayers. But then we were able to point out how he did. We
didn´t know when we made that last minute change in plans just because
the thought came to my head that it was going to answer his prayer...but
it did...and God has really been answering his prayers all along. He
just hasn´t been able to recognize that they are coming from other
people.
Well, that was one of the big miracles that we saw this week. We
are working incredibly hard so I hope that we will be able to see the
fruits of that labor this coming week with new people to teach that want
to hear the message of the restored Gospel.
Well, that is all I have time for this week.
Love you all!
Happy Birthday to my amazingly studly little brother today as well!!!
Love,
Hermana Eyre
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