Buenos Dias!
This week was a good week! Lots of walking, talking, and sweating! The heat has started and so has the application of sunscreen!
This
week I got to know my comp a little bit better and his history, and
holy wow it is super crazy! He had a crazy past life and made me
realised how sheltered I really was ha ha :) But it is always interesting
to see how people can change their lives :)
This
week we had English class! English class is pretty good! We have 10
students, all less actives and recent converts, but it is still good :)
We have a competition with the sisters in our ward because they are
teaching Portuguese classes and we are always trying to have more
students than them, and as of now we have 10 and they have 1, so we are
winning by a little bit ;) But the spirit is strong even when we cant
communicate very well with people. We taught everyone how to bare their
testimonies in Spanish and English, and even though they couldn't speak
very well we could all feel the spirit :)
But
before English class we were waiting for people to show up and wanted
to play basketball. We didn't have a basketball with us so we made one
out of a sack full of trash and a rock, and the sad thing is I played
the best basketball I have ever played in my life. I don't think I missed
a shot! Now we know that if I want to win I just have to bring a
sketchy garbage bag with rock basketball :) It was a fun moment :)
This
week we had a good lesson with some investigators, but they all have
something pretty big preventing them from being baptised. They are
progressing and doing what we tell them to do, but it will take some
miracles for them to be able to overcome their challenges.
This
week I finished a year in the mission! Crazy right? Ha ha I didn't really
do anything to celebrate. I made myself some oatmeal with yogurt and
put a candle in it ha ha. Nothing too big, but it doesn't feel like a year
has already passed by! The time just flies by :)
This
week I had a small spiritual experience that I loved. It was nothing
big, but I love being guided by the spirit, it is probably my favorite
thing in the mission. We were having a lesson with an inactive and we
were talking about the importance of praying. We were about to finish the
lesson but I had a prompting to ask a simple question. When I did the
inactive shared an incredible experience that he had had the first time
that he prayed and it really invited the spirit into the lesson. It also
helped him realize that he knew that we receive blessings by praying
and that it isn't just something that the missionaries were saying. I
loved that moment because it was something so simple, but the spirit
knew that it would make a big difference in the lesson :) Always follow
the spirit and you will NEVER fail :)
Pablo
is doing good and so is the G Family. It is great to see them
progressing. It is kind of sad that the G Family cant progress to be
sealed in the temple because the dad doesn't want to go to church, but
we are working with them doing all that we can to help him receive the
blessings as a family :)
That
was basically my week! I hope that everyone of you has a great week and
can make an effort to follow the spirit more this week to see if it
makes a difference.
I love you all!ª Stay Golden!
Love,
Elder Nielson :)
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