Monday, March 6, 2017

Week Sixty-One: Fourteen Months Down!

Area: Arvin Spanish Group
Companion: Hermana Luquette

This week was busy. We have been teaching a lot of people recently and we have been having back to back lessons most days. It is really fun to have so many people that we are working with and to be able to see everyone progress in their own little ways. Things have been going well and we have been seeing miracles everyday.

One of the people that we are teaching is named Luis. He is a young man and he works in the fields. He told us that his New Year's resolution this year was to hold down a job and that he felt like we have been helping him with that, so we are always excited to ask him how work is going. The other night, we had just gotten out of dinner when Luis sent us a text asking us to pray for him to get a new job. We assumed that he had lost his old job, so we told him that we would go over to his house and pray for him. When we got to his house, he opened the door and we said, "We are sorry to hear about what happened." Then he looked really confused and asked us what we were talking about. After some initial confusion, we discovered that he hadn't lost his old job, he was just looking for a better job working with the honey bees. We were able to say a prayer with him and he told us in our lesson yesterday that he got the job! Prayer works.

We also have started to teach another man named Ricardo. He likes to sit around his house and whittle old table legs into baseball bats. He also has about a million chickens. The other day, he let us hold a couple of his newly hatched chicks. So cute! We have been teaching him for about a week and a half and he has a real desire to learn about Jesus Christ and to change his life. The other night, we went over for our lesson and a lot of his friends were also sitting outside of his house. We started talking to the group, but a couple of the people were wanting to Bible Bash. We were trying to bear our testimonies and Ricardo started bearing his testimony as well and quoting from the parts of the Book of Mormon that he had read to answer his friends' questions. It was neat  to see!

Also, we started teaching a woman named Maria this week. The other week, I wrote about receiving a phone call from someone that wanted us to come over and about how we couldn't find their house. We thought that it was just a fluke and that the house didn't exist. Later, I was looking down at what I had written in my agenda and I found the address for Maria. It turned out that we had been looking for the wrong house all along. When we went over to her real address, we found Maria at home. She had a stroke a couple of years ago and as a result, she hasn't been able to walk for a long time. We went over and were able to share some scriptures with her that helped her to find a little bit of comfort.

Things have also been going well in teaching Refugio. He gave us dinner the other day. He doesn't have a lot of cooking skills, so he took us out to eat at the local Mexican Restaurant. It was super nice. He told us during the dinner that about his wife and children who are still down in Mexico. I guess he came here to the United States to make money and that after a couple of years, they will be able to come up here and join him. Then he told us about how we helped him to find peace and that we helped him to feel better about being away from his family. It was sweet!

We had Mission Leadership Conference, Zone Training Meeting, and Stake Conference this week. That all added up to be a lot of time in meetings, but it was nice to be able to learn from the spirit and to receive direction about the things that we need to be doing in our area of the mission and in life in general. I love this gospel and all of the things that it gives me. I know that I have so much happiness now because of the things that I have learned and the ways that I have come closer to Christ! I love being a missionary!

I love you all! I hope that you have a good week!

Hermana Blau

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