Week 80

Helllloooooo everyone! I'm gonna preface this email by just saying that this week was awesome!

This past Friday, we held a Zone Council with the theme of having ~miracles~ since we want all the missionaries in the Zone to look back at this transfer and always refer to it as "the miracle transfer". And just two weeks into the transfer, things are lookin' gooood. I'm going to try to include at least one miracle in each of my emails this transfer. Today, I will share three.

Miracle 1:

So Elder Stuflick and I as well as the hermanas misioneras in the ward, Hermana Krummenacher and Hermana Creer, decided to start our own English classes every Sunday at 10am (just before church, which starts at 11am). I carried over the idea to teach the driver's test from my last district, and with the power that the sister missionaries have to get 100+ comments on one individual Facebook post, we had no idea what we were getting ourselves into.

9:30am rolls around and people are already showing up. By 9:55am, there was a line of people almost going out to the street. We brought everyone into the gym, and had a total of about 80 people present!! We broke the mission record (which was about 40) in our very first class 😎!!! Then 13 of these people stayed after the class and attended church and told us that they'll definitely come back!!

Miracle 2:

We were at some apartments in our area looking for inspiration as to which doors we should knock. Neither of us felt any promptings, so we started walking and came across this stray dog. I said out loud to the dog, "I will literally go wherever you go," and thus we followed the dog until it led us to this one apartment complex with four doors, two on the first floor, the other two on the second.

To save time, we thought it'd be fun to knock two doors at the same time, cause... what's the worst that could happen? Both of them answer? Well..... that's exactly what happened. Elder Stuflick and I each talked to our respective people and set up follow-up appointments.

Miracle 3:

One of these people from Miracle 2 was named Ignacio (his friends... and us... call him Nacho). He was super cool and showed interest, but we gave him our number upon request and he hadn't called us for a couple of days. On Sunday later at night, we were in the area and we heard a faint voice. We turn around, and 100 feet away stands Nacho, waving his arms and calling us to him. He apologized for not having called us, and invited us into his home. I had the feeling that this was gonna be goood.

He started by saying how much he respected us and admired what we do as missionaries. He then threw his arms up and said, "The time is yours. Teach me!" He continued to be a very open, repentant soul and had a great sense of humor. We are very excited to keep working with him.

God is still a God of miracles.

Elder Terry

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1-2) ❤ Elder Stuflick ❤ and I