MARCH 20, 2017

FE ES COMO UNA SEMILLA...

Hola!!! Ustedes son los mejores! 

I love you all! So much! 

I'm pretty sure I say this every week but this week went by SO fast. It was insane! So packed full of hard work and miracles. I loved every minute of it! I’ll go through some highlights real quick!

We had Zone Conference on Wednesday, it was such a blast! The energy in this mission is so insane. Right now there is a huge push for 100 baptisms in the month of April. We are calling it "the RISE of the FFLM" and everyone is going so hard and we are all really united in this goal. It’s been amazing. Also, zone conference is fun because I get to see my friends that are serving on the East Coast right now, which is always nice! 

We had so many inspired lessons this past week. Ahhh, you guys have no idea how awesome life is right now. I'm so excited just writing this email. I LOVE LIFE. so much pure happiness. We met two really cool families this week. On Friday we knocked into these two boys, 17 and 14, they were immediately really open to talking to us about how they have always known who God was but their family doesn't really talk about him that much. Five minutes later, their Mom comes from around the corner and recognizes us immediately. She invited us in and told us all about how she grew up in Honduras, was baptized with her mom when she was 12, graduated from seminary, and then moved and couldn’t find a church near her so she ended up going inactive. She then went on to tell us that she never stopped believing in the Mormon church and she "owes everything" to this church. She married a Non Member who is kinda anti, which is a little rough. But the whole time her kids were sitting in while we were talking and were so interested. They loved and understood the resto so well and all of her Boys want to know more. (Let’s hope her husband is down too..) 

We also met another woman who has a similar situation. We knocked into her also. She is from Venezuela, all of her daughters are members but she went inactive when she came her 8 months and never moved her records over. She is just the sweetest woman though. I love her. 

We are teaching this super cool Cuban guy named Blass right now too. He has only been here for about a month. Teaching him has really taught me to appreciate the fact that I was born in America. Since Cuba is a communist country, religion just doesn’t really exist. Most of the Cubans I have met on my mission either practice "Santaria" (I don’t know the word in English) or are "Catholic" but don’t really have any real knowledge of God. Blass grew up without any religion at all. So we have had to take it from the very basics with him. But it’s been an amazing experience already to just watch someone start to understand the pure LOVE that our father in Heaven has for us. 

OH! We are teaching this guy named Jose right now and HE IS THE BEST. He is neighbors with one of the members in our ward. I love this guy so much. He came here about 3 months ago, from Puerto Rico, and our member found him at a bus stop without a place to live. He took him in immediately. He then lost his wife a month ago, and is now working so much to provide for his whole family in Puerto Rico. He is one of the hardest working people I have ever met. I love him, I honestly don’t think I could say it enough. We taught him the Plan of Salvation last week and the Restoration and Book of Mormon this past week. He just has so much desire and pure faith it’s amazing. In the middle of the lesson he just stopped us and looked at us and started telling us how wonderfully thankful he was for us and how much he is grateful for our sacrifice and how he feels so much peace when we are with him. It was a moment in my mission that I never want to forget. 

My scripture of the week is in Alma 32:12. Go check it out. Be humble and repentance will be the only choice. 

I LOVE YOU ALL!!!! Thank you so much for your support! I pray for you all every day! Have a great week! Talk to you next week!