Week Fifty-Four: Keeping Busy

Area: Arvin Spanish Group
Companion: Hermana Luquette

This week was full of fun, excitement, and cold rain. We had a lot of appointments and we spent a lot of time rushing from place to place, but it was a very fulfilling week.

We started out the week with an appointment right after p day finished out. Hermana Luquette and Hermana Perry found a man to teach on exchanges. He is pretty cool and we have had a couple of lessons with him this week. He has been reading the Book of Mormon and has a pretty spiritual background. Also, he sells Amway for a living. He is pretty excited about it. Every time that we have come over, he talks it up to us. We invited one of our members to come with us to a lesson with him. After we were done teaching, he asked us if we had five minutes. We did, so he went back into his house. To our surprise, he came out with a whiteboard and his Amway supplies and spent the next fifteen minutes trying to get us to buy in. The miracle of the night is that we made it out with our wallets intact!

One day this week, we were going to contact a referral when we passed by the parking lot of the local store. A old lady was standing outside picking up bags from her cart to carry them all the way to her house. We asked her if she needed help and she let us carry all of her groceries back to her house a couple of streets away. When we got there, she invited us in, showed us her family photos, and told us about all of her grandchildren. We were able to talk to her about the Plan of Salvation and tell her about how she could be with her late husband again. It was pretty sweet. As we left, she gave us some of the cutest cookies I have ever seen in my life. It was nice to be able to help out just a little bit.

On Tuesday this week, we had straight appointments from eleven o'clock in the morning until nine o'clock at night. We didn't have a time for lunch, so we set it for a backup plan to one of our less solid lessons. When we got there, it turned out that the lady we were supposed to teach was there. She was super sweet and was very happy to listen to us. It was nice because we were able to teach her, but it was a little sad because we were hungry until dinner.

That same day, we had a lesson with Julio. We decided to go over the Restoration with him. He actually remembered almost everything. At the end of the lesson, we asked him if he knew that the church of Jesus Christ had been restored and he told us that he had finally gotten an answer to his prayers and that he knew that it had. It made me super happy. It has been really fun to be able to see the progression in him from the beginning until now.

On Saturday night, we had an appointment planned for 8 o'clock (a happy occurrence because it was chilly, dark, and lightly drizzling). Right before the hour, the appointment fell through and we found ourselves without anything planned and with no one to try and see. We both felt that we should go and talk to a man that we had met a couple of weeks ago, but we weren't positive that he would be there or that he would let us into his house. When we got to the apartment complex where he lives, we said a prayer before we got out of the car that we would be able to find someone that would let us into their apartment and out of the rain and that we would be able to have another lesson with them the next night. Literally, the first people who we talked to after we got out of the car was a cute little family who let us teach them in their house. After our lesson, we asked for a return appointment and they said that we could come back the next night. We went back and taught a really good lesson with them. It was such a tender mercy from the Lord.

That is just about it for this week. We are keeping busy down here in Arvin and we are seeing miracles every day! I love serving the Lord and being able to serve the people of this part of the world. I love having the chance to share my testimony of the gospel every day! I hope that you all have a good week.

Hermana Blau