This week has been exceptional. We had two people show up to church on sunday. One of them was the sister of one of the members we had been working with- Hermano Noe - hes a convert to the church of about 3 years. Apparently the entire rest of his family are non members so there's a lot of work to do there.
The other non member that had been showing up to church and we hadn't even realized was the niece of an active member, named Mauricio. So we are going to start working and helping these two people.
For our fast Sunday meal, the members fed us some soup which had chicken on the bone. We all had a good time eating and then feeding the stray dogs the bones. It reminded me of the first time I was in Mexico when I would I always feed all the mean dogs, then those dogs would always start to like me
We had a very neat experience on Sunday evening. On Friday we got a call that we to see if we could go visit a very sick lady that lived in Anahuac. So we called our Mission President and we received permission to go. This place was previously closed because of some dangerous things that happened. So the members came and picked us up and we traveled to her house. We said a prayer and then we went inside to meet the her. Her name is Wendy, she probably has 35 years old. She has 2 little precious girls - five and three years old. We talked to her and she explained everything that had been happening to her. Since November of 2020, she has had cancer, and she has tumors in her legs. She has already had three operations /surgeries. She then told us that she will have another visit with the doctors, but te last time she went, they told her that there is no remedy. And so she was left to think that she will die soon and leave her two little ones behind. After everything we explained the priesthood and asked her if she would like for us to give her a blessing. We then proceeded to give her a priesthood blessing through the prayer of faith since we weren't allowed to touch her. It was a great reminder that the power of God has no limits. Jesus Christ healed so many people without ever touching them. The spirit was strong and afterwards we offered to come back and teach her the plan of salvation.
Just a few other highlights of this week
We received the list of all the members, made a map with all their names and directions and we started searching for them. We have had so much success so far and we are excited to continue!
We were able to found and start teaching eight new people this week.
Keep these people in your prayers - Hermana Wendy - Sister with cancer, Laisa, Miguel, Gabriel, Jorge Calderon, Blanca and Octaviano, Alejandra and Ernesto, Josefina and Ornorio, and Jose
We had zone conference this week we woke up 5:30. We had interviews with president and got my new temple recommend,
We had a zone inventory because there was a lot of problems within this zone
Also I finished my BYU application
The interesting lesson this week...
We had a lesson with Josefina and Ornorio, but he was drunk so he was super distractive...hopefully we catch a bit more perky next time
Something to Share - The infinite accessibility and power of prayer
President James E. Faust bore testimony of the gift and privilege we each have of access to our Heavenly Father through prayer: “Access to our Creator through our Savior is surely one of the great privileges and blessings of our lives. … No earthly authority can separate us from direct access to our Creator. There can never be a mechanical or electronic failure when we pray. There is no limit on the number of times or how long we can pray each day. There is no quota of how many needs we wish to pray for in each prayer. We do not need to go through secretaries or make an appointment to reach the throne of grace. He is reachable at any time and any place”
Elder Talbot
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