Sept 2021

Hello everybody, hope you guys are all doing well! 

This past few weeks have been absolutely insaneeeee so much stuff has gone down. First things first I got a new companion Elder Aldridge and he is the BEST. From day one we just went to work and we get along great! We love the work and we love working together so it doesn't get better than that! 

One of our first few nights together we realized we had a flat tire so we took our car to Les Schwab and decided to walk around a few apartment complexes while we waited for the car to fix. While we were out there were people just being put right in our path and we were finding and teaching people like crazy! It was getting late and we walked back to the Les Schwab but it was closed and we couldn't get our car back... So as any normal missionaries would do we just kept walking around and at the end of the night we had found and taught 8 people!!! It was INSANEEEE God is too good to us! 

We had an awesome lesson about God's love and prayer with an inactive member of over a year and he said he was willing to start praying again! 

One day as we were going to visit Silvia we ran into her daughter Drea. We began to chat it up and she started to open up a lot about the struggles she has had in her life. We just started to teach and testify of God's love and how he still is among us and can impact our lives as we turn to him! We ended up teaching her the entire restoration and by the end she said she had goosebumps and she was in tears. The spirit is so real and it ALWAYS testifies of truth!! 

One late Saturday night we went to the house of one of our friends Alejandro but someone else who lived there, Ilario, opened the door and invited us in. Alejandro was not home but we began to teach Ilario the restoration and he was very intrigued! He said he felt like he knew God pretty well but he felt maybe he was missing out on something more!! He committed to come to church that next morning but needed a ride. The next Sunday we went with a member to pick him up and not only he was up and ready for church but so was ALEJANDRO AND HIS WIFE!! IT WAS EPIC. 

This week I was able to go on exchanges with Elder Redd and it was awesome! He is such a humble and charitable Elder and we learned a lot from each other. While we were calling some people in his area he called someone who they hadn't made contact with in a while and he didn't pick up. I got a prompting that we needed to call again right then and there and we did... HE PICKED UP AND SET A TIME TO COME BACK!! 

Today I had ANOTHER chance to go to the temple and It was awesome! It truly is a place we can go to receive revelation and guidance for our lives!  

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