Week 97 & 98

Hey all of you lovely people!

This is my final transfer!! I'm staying in the El Camino ward for the rest of my mission, and I'm staying with Elder Barnes and we'll be in a trio with the new addition of a legend, Elder Gaunt. Being that I'm going home halfway through the transfer, I'm basically living out of my suitcases... it's pretty difficult. And these past two weeks, I've had a lot of time to work super duper hard in the area and also reflect on how much I've accomplished and how much I've grown on the mission. What's helping me to endure to the end is how much I love the work, the people I serve, and the people I serve with.

Miracles:

So we have found a whole bunch of new people to teach that have seemed very promising. However, on Sunday, only one of our friends showed up. We were pretty disappointed, but at that moment we re-lived this scripture from the Book of Mormon:

"Now when our hearts were depressed, and we were about to turn back, behold, the Lord be comforted us, and said: Go amongst thy brethren, the [Latinos], and bear with patience thine afflictions, and I will give unto you success." (Alma 26:27)

It was at this moment that God showed us that He still had everything under control.

1. As we sat in the foyer mourning the fact that we were going to have to stop teaching a bunch of our friends, two people randomly showed up to church. Some members immediately fellowshipped them and they joined the Sunday school class. They then accepted visits from us.

2. We had a lesson with our only amiga that came to church, Viviana, and after having taught her for the past 4 months and having attempted to put her on for a baptismal date, she finally accepted a date for December 26th!!! Although I won't be there to see her get baptized, she has such a solid testimony and such strong connections with the members that I know that she'll stay strong in the church after her baptism. Viviana is so awesome.

3. As we made visits later in the day to let our amigos know that we were going to stop teaching them because they weren't keeping their commitments, we couldn't even finish visiting them all because we kept crossing paths with other new people to teach. We finished the week with my new personal record of having found 19 new people to teach in just one week.

I love being a missionary.

Elder Terry

Fotos:

1) Found a big tire.

2) We had to take a companionship to the hospital at midnight, so here's us tired as heck with masks on