alright." This was one of the miracles that we were able to see this
week. But the story starts far before this event occurred. It started
when we knocked on the door of a member that no one really knew. We
found a 17 year old boy answering the door. He is a member, just
hasn't been to church in years. We got him to start coming and coming out with
us to make visits and teach lessons. We started to get better
acquainted with the rest of his family. We found a mom who works
Sunday's. His brother, he is 16 and not baptized. Another brother who
is 13 and is baptized, but hasn't been able to become a deacon. Well
the 16 year old brother is slightly autistic. We received permission
this week to teach and baptize him, because he wants to be. We
committed the whole family to coming to church this week, and they all
came!! It was incredible! The 16 year old is now on date to be
baptized on the 6th of August!! We were going over Sunday evening and
this is when the mom so sweetly said the quote I wrote above. She
invited her non member friend to listen to our lesson with her son.
She was interested and accepted a Book of Mormon. She actually lives
in our area, and we are going to begin to meet with her too! She just
so happened to be looking for a church when her friend gave her the
suggestion to come hear what we have to say. Miracles do happen! We
had been praying for more people to be able to teach and they were so
lovingly placed in our path.
One of my favorite people is Doris our investigator. She's the
sweetest lady you could ever meet. This week she told us that she is
going to make us some fried chicken that would put KFC to shame. I'm
pretty excited! She loves the church and claims that we are all such
beautiful people. She just needs to give up smoking and she will be
baptized! I'm so excited for her!
I love serving here in the La Pradera Park Ward. It might be
ridiculously hot biking around, but I love every second of it. I love
being here and serving these amazing people!
This week we had a meeting with our mission president. We talked about
the importance of stopping and pondering. He told us that too often in
life he failed to stop. He failed to really evaluate where he was. He
told us that life can overwhelm and consume our entire mind. We need
to stop and evaluate where we are in all aspects of our lives
regularly. If we fail to do this, we won't be able to achieve near as
much as we could've. This really hit me hard. It helped open my eyes
to see why as missionaries they encourage us to set weekly goals to
improve ourselves. We are to reflect, at least weekly, on our lives
and see what can be better. We need to see how we can better ourselves
to accomplish not only what we want to, but what God needs us to. It's
also made me really be contemplative with my goal setting and
planning. It means a whole lot more to me now and it's a practice I am
going to take with me my whole life.
I love you all and hope all is phenomenal! :)
-Elder Toph Tribe
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