Ok what a week.
So first of all this morning we were playing
bball and my comp got hit in the nose and it broke. Soooo we already had special
changes and he went to Chihuahua City to get it fixed and now my comp will be
the elder that broke his nose hahaha He will be my comp just for a week until
they send me someone else.
The zone is doing way good right now. We have a lot
of baptisms for this Saturday. We decided that it would be cool if we all
fasted specifically for this day so that everything would turn out good.
Right
after we started the fast I received 2 text messages. One was from an elder
saying that they just had a great lesson with one of the families we fasted
for and that they wanna get baptized and the second said that this other dude we
fasted for wants to get baptized and wants to be come closer to God. And the cool
thing about that guy (his name is Juan) is that we contacted him one day that I
was in divisions with an elder. He was super sick so I asked him if he wanted a
blessing and he said yes and we gave it to him and he got better and we taught him a
little. Now he is going to church consistantly and wants to get baptized!
I
honestly was so happy when I got that text that he wants to get baptized. It was
so cool to see the affects of fasting so fast and so obvious.
And another cool
miracle that happened this week is that we were walking through a place that
sold sombreros and so I was like hmmm I think I'll get one because the one I had was
horrible! It had a hole and made my head itch. It was the first time in my whole
mission that I walked into a store with the desire to buy a sombrero.
I didn't
see any that I liked so I didn't buy any and we kept working. Later that
day a guy saw us and pulled over and said, "hey guero porque no llevas un
sombrero hace mucho sol" (hey white guy why aren't you wearing a sombrero it's
really sunny). As he said that he got out of his car and gave me one for free,
and it's actaully one that I like hahaha and it's like way better that all the ones in
the store! He then got in his car and sped away. Right after that happened I
looked at my comp and said, "I love how lucky I am"
It wasn't until yesterday at
church that I started to remember a lesson that my seminary teacher,Brother Dumford,
gave us about tender mercies from God. He tought us that tender mercies
basically are blessings that we don't necessarily need but that God gives us because
he loves us and I then realized that that was a tender mercy. It's not like I was
super sad that day or that I was thinking about going home or something, I
really feel like God gave me a blessing so that I would remember that he loves
me. And know that if God can do that with me he can do it with everyone else in
this world!
I love you all! Know that God loves you and have a great week!
Elder Lignell
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