Good ol' Faith

Dear Family,

The work is going great! This past week has been so darn busy but I love it! It is still really hot here but I like it. Im sweaty just about every min of the day but its a blessing in disguise; it is going to help me lose some weight jaja. 

So this week Elder Parke and I did a service project for a member of the church here. we had to move a pile of sand to the back of his house. Then we had to move 50 kilo, which is over 100 pounds, bags of concrete to the back of his house. It was so much fun. I was power cleaning them bags onto my shoulders. It was like being in the gym again jaja. Yall can already imagen that with the heat I was sweating like crazy. Im still a little sore but jaja. Elder Parke and I have been focusing a lot on serving others and we are noticing the difference for doing it. Service brings miracles. 

We had a miracle this past week. One of our investigatores, Miguel, was going to come to church this past week but when a member passed by for his house to take him, he was still asleep. But the miracle is that another member, a childhood friend of Miguel, had just come back from living in Peru and heard that Miguel was listening to the missionaries. So he passed by the house of Miguel and woke him up and brought him to church without out us even telling the member to do that. In fact, I had never even met this member becuase he got here this week from Peru. It was amazing. Not only that, but Miguel was so happy that to be at church. As a sister started to play the prelude music as we started Sacrament Meeting I was so grateful for the help of my Heavnely Father and the miracle that had just happened that I had peaceful feeling and held back the tears. 

There was one point when we didnt think Miguel was going to come to the church. I was sitting in one of the classes before sacrament meeting (because in this ward we do the classes first) thinking, ¨should i give up home?¨ , ¨should i accept that he is not going to come?¨ and then a quick response came to my mind ¨NO! Keep your faith strong¨. And after that still didnt know what was going to happen but I had faith that a miracle was going to happen. Then out of no where shows up Miguel! Heavenly Father always has a plan but tests our faith so that we can grow.

I hope you all have a great week. Les quiero mucho!

Con Amor,

Elder Nobmann Riddle