Well, this past week (and month, and
year) have flown by! I can't believe I'm already writing you again.
Before I know it, I'll be talking with you all by skype. So, this past
week we taught even more lessons, we didn't find many people, but we are
getting ready for some baptisms. Our zone is struggling. We have the
goal of 10 confirmations and it looks like we'll only have three. Elder
Borgersen and I have looked at our investigators and have come up with a
plan. We may be able to baptize 7 in two weeks on the 24th. It'd take a
miracle for the seventh though. It could be Jesús, Magda, Ana, Emanual,
Daniel, Kevin, and Aylén. Aylén would be our miracle baptism. But we
need them all to attend church this next week or none can get baptized. .
. We need miracles. Elder Borgersen and I are going to sacrifice Pdays,
language study time, and maybe even fast three times a week to pull
this off. We don't want our zone to not make the goal. And President
expects a ton from us too. Pray for these people and for us. Our motto
is "Be Bold and Expect Miracles."
So, last week on Monday, Irma wasn't there, but we
passed by later and she treated us quite hostile. We dropped her. We're
going to pass by some other time to see if she notices the difference in
her life without the spirit from our lessons. Later, we went over to
Jesús's and Magda wasn't able to come. So we taught him the Word of
Wisdom and he totally liked it! He later went to Magda's and he taught
it to her. She liked it too!! And then the rest of the day we walked
around trying to find someone without luck. But it was only an hour, so
no worries there.
Tuesday started out with a zone training meeting.
Elder Borgersen and I decided to reteach some of the things that Pres
had shared with us at the leadership council. It went over pretty well
except for when one of our district leaders, Elder Ayala, started
complaining about something. It set a terrible example for the other
missionaries in the zone. We talked to him about it later on that night
and he felt bad for having done so. He's a great missionary though. He
only has a month and a half left on the mission. In the afternoon we
were able to teach some great lessons to Ana, Pricila, and some other
people. Pricila is progressing soooo well!!! Ana too!!!
So, on Wednesday we were able to teach Jesús again. Magda had to leave to buy something and we didn't teach her again. But
she sends us texts asking for when we are going to come by and when
church is. She's way interested still. We taught him the law of chastity and he loved it! We taught him how to pray to overcome
temptations too. Those two are so great! Future missionaries! :) We also
did an exchange that day. I stayed in my area with Elder De Oliveira
from Brazil, but he speaks way good Spanish for a Brazilian, though. He
and his companion are struggling quite a bit in their area. We were
trying to help them find and to have courage as they do contacts and
when they teach.
Thursday was a crazy day! We had to do another
exchange to be able to do an interview for Elder Anderson and Elder
Bradshaw. So I left to their area with Elder Bradshaw. We taught some
great lessons, but the highlight was definitely when I was doing the
interview. Elio and Magali were the candidates. Elio had taken the
decision and wanted to be baptized. Magali was a little wishy washy
still. I still decided to interview her, though. In our talk, I showed
her that she was extremely prepared. Long story made short, I promised
her right then and there that if she prayed then she would get an answer
from God in that very instant. She did. As she asked our Heavenly
Father for an answer, she was overcome with emotion and felt the truth
of the message. It was an amazing moment and how my calling has given me
so much authority and power. I know that the Lord works though his
missionaries to bring to pass miracles.
Friday was a little more tough. We had a lot of
walking to do. Luckily we had a huge drop in temperature though! It's
been REALLY hot lately with 100% humidity and it dropped about thirty
degrees on Friday. :) Love it! Anyway, the greatest part of the day was
with our neighbor Pricila. We taught her and her boyfriend, Dario and we
taught them about the plan of salvation and the importance of our
families. Pricila earlier was telling us how she's never going to get
married, but now we have her thinking about it. Dario is all for it! For
the past few days we keep leaving them jokes, and notes telling them to
get married and they are seriously talking about it now, until last
night when they decided that maybe today they'll go to the registro
civil and take out a turn to go get married within a month! woo!!!! Such
a big change and it might actually happen. More baptisms. :)
Saturday was great too! We have three couples
getting married soon. Juan and Jazmin, Pricila and Dario, and last Sol
and Diego. They're all surprising us and they are all trying to get it
done! More baptisms! More eternal families! More happiness!! Nothing is
better than uniting complete families. :)
Sunday we had five investigators in sacrament
meeting. The afternoon was great also! I'm out of time, but I hope you
understand how much I love each of you. I have had such a warmth in my
heart lately that goes out to my family and friends. I may be far away,
but you're all still close in my heart. Love and miss you!
Elder Blake W. Cowan
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