Anyways! Family! How are y'all? This week was full of some good old times that I will remember forever. Cool! We are blowing up here in Strong Beach Brown Zone, the zone has done better than it has before for the last year, this place is exploding with success. Excluding one, every single goal we set....we hit, sick. That's how you get it done, we are that shot around the world!
This week we started out the week with an awesome exchange with the APs, Elder Taylor is the AP, he came to my area. He is an elder that was in my MTC district, we are very good friends and we have NEVER served around each other, ever. So we went on exchanges and it was a blast! When we got together we set goals for what we were going to do for the next 24 hours, we wanted to see some miracles. We had a booked schedule, but we wanted to find. With a packed schedule right around 7pm, and a lesson at 8pm. We looked at each other and said, "OK well we will find 2 new in the next hour." So we went out, prayed and were lead to an area that I have never been to before. But I had one old potential written down, we started walking and contacted everyone we saw. Well, we get to the house right before the potential and see 2 people sitting on the patio. We contact them and they let us sit down with them. They are sooo prepared to hear the gospel, we started to teach the the spirit, boom, just filled the room. We start asking them questions and they tell us EVERYTHING about them, how they have been searching for truth and what's the purpose of their life and what they need to do to follow God. We taught them all they needed and committed them to baptism. Cool, throughout the whole exchange we had tons of success with finding 6 new investigators.
Later in the week, we got back together. We were on Bike ( I LOVE bike, I have missed using it, we wanted to be an example to the zone and try to rarely use our car, there is nothing better then getting to the grind of things on a bike in missionary work, l love it.) We got a call from Elder Brock, one our DLs, and he says he had a contact that he gave their phone number too and they live in our area and the contact-called him asking if missionaries could come by and "help him out". So we went.....that lesson was so unique. We met this man named Fernando and he really wanted to change his life...in that moment. He told us he has a problem with smoking, drinking, and well the law of chastity. We had a bold lesson with him, and asked us to give all of his cigarettes to us so we could destroy them. He was hesitant but did so, we went out the street and ripped them up. We go back two days later and he asked "forcefully" never to return and talk to him, he said he enjoyed talking to us in the moment but it is so hard to stop and he doesn't want to, so he kicked us off his property. The whole experience was so unique, you can only help someone IF they accept it and choose to go through it. Like the atonement, we have to accept it and then try to apply it. Truly, salvation does not come easy...but man is it worth it.
Later in the week we went on another exchange (I feel like I am always on exchanges) and it was a great time! For the night we got to see another cool miracle. We had a member come out with us and drive us around. We had some good sets and great time, once again we had a lesson at 8 and we really wanted to find! We went out and got to work, always starting with a prayer for help. We go out and we had NOTHING all night, all was falling through and we had two people drop us and man, it was rough...at first! But like they say, after something bad happens always something better happens to you to help forget about the bad. So again we stopped and prayed to ask God where he needs us to be. We went to a potential I had written down from the area book. As we were driving there I realized the potential doesn't even live in our area....uh....it crosses the river over into another area. We get to the street it should be on and the hermano that is with us stops and says, "ah, he estado aqui en esa casa!!" He pointed at some random house and told us that he went there about 6 months earlier with some other elders and he has been wondering what was happening with her, we quickly parked and got to the house. We knocked on the door and Maricela was there, we had a powerful lesson with her and boom, got to set a baptism date with her too. It's cool to see that God leads us in so many ways. Through members and their old experiences with members. cool
6 months to sexy is still going strong for us, we are working out and running more than ever, I love it and I LOVE to run in the mornings too. Cool.
In all , this week was great. I love where I am at and I LOVE LB. It's the best place in the whole world. Have a great week y'all.
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