Well, here's to another week come and gone. I have just a month left here state side so I'm gonna be making the most of it. We've had some pretty cool experiences this week.
So I guess the first notable thing I guess was last week. I didn't really explain what happened too well I think. Me and Elder Shamo had to go get a car we had dropped off to get repairs done. The problem was is that we got the place wrong. Elder Shamo said "Oh, we'll be back in 20 mins or so." So I got some pies going in the oven and we then proceeded to get super lost. After about 55 mins of driving around I started freaking out just a little. I figured I could burn the place down if we left em' in there too long, or at least get the fire alarm to go off and have a nice hefty fine from the fire trucks that showed up. That and my pretty little pies would be dead. Luckily we called the mission home and got our manager's phone number and they shut off the oven, because we were still driving around 3 hours later. That would have been quite a last impression to leave just before heading to Brazil, right? It was a little bit stressful to say in the least.
Well, another cool thing was that me and Elder MacDonald are in the same zone! For those who don't know me and Elder MacDonald are from the same home ward! We only met with 4 week for me left so we didn't know each other too well but it is still super cool! We both showed up to Zone Training Meeting and had a good spiritual boost there. And we had stake conference together the next day.
So I don't have much more time to type this all out so I'll have to keep the rest with me till after the mission but I have an important question to answer. Someone has asked what one of my favorite experiences has been on my mission so far. I'd say one of the best has just recently happened actually yesterday. I was feeling a bit down and we had just finished lunch with some members but I was still pretty hungry. We sent in our weekly numbers which were pretty awful honestly and I started getting into a bit of pity party.
I felt impressed to go drop by some people that had a strong baptismal date but had recently cut us off. They said they needed some time to think, and as a missionary those words are never good. I grumbled to myself a bit and tried to push it away but the thought came back, so we went and got in the car and started driving there. When we got there we actually saw that their car was in parked out front, so I felt my heart lift a little, but sunk right back down, thinking they would just tell us off in person.
When we knocked on the door we were answered by someone I didn't know but they soon came into the front room with big smiles on their faces. As we sat down and started talking the wife told us that she had really felt like she wanted God out of her life for a while while we weren't talking. She then went on to explain one of the most powerful spiritual experiences I have ever heard of in my life. It was incredible, they told us they would be the first ones to church every week! They are now going to be baptized for on the 28th for sure! They completely cut us off, we prayed for a miracle and it happened all within 4 days! We came out of that lesson on fire, feeling on top of the world. God is great :).
Well, that's all for this week. I've got to get back to work. Hope you all have a good one!
-Um no exercito de Deus
Elder Teela
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