I really have felt the meaning of the saying "the heavens are open", because I felt every single bit of the heavens this week just absolutely drenching me with rain every single day😭, peep the google photos for the rain🌧
You guys may have entered my google photos lately and thought what do Elder Clouse and his comp do all day besides dance, i honestly don't know, but guys I promise we do occasionally work trust me😉
This week me and my comp had the chance to get to know another inactive member, her name is Mery, we talked to her boyfriend about a week ago and he finally let us in the house on Wednesday, we taught the restoration to him and Mery, and then found their daughter Uma, whos 11, who accepted to be baptized! It was a crazy miracle, we passed by again on saturday and taught the restoration again, and Mery told us how happy she was to be going to church the next day with her whole family, and how excited she was to help her daughter get baptized it was so awesome to see! Before leaving on Saturday Mery turned to us and just says "you guys are changing our lives🥹", she told us how her boyfriend had rejected every religion before we got there, but for some reason he finally decided to recieve us and is wanting to get baptized!
Now every story doesn't have a happy ending as you all know. Ya so Sunday morning we experienced Hurricane Katrina oh my goodness, it was raining cats and dogs literally. We passed by Mery to help the family come to church, and she was awake and just DID NOT want to go out in the storm, we prayed with her, tried begging God to stop the storm, but she didn't want to take her kids out in a thunder storm😭, so they couldn't make it but hey you guys will hear from this family soon i promise their so elect, God prepared them so perfectly
So after that happened it was about 9:35 on sunday morning, we were about 30 blocks from church, I told my comp we had to run to go look for other people to help get to church before 10:00, and I remember we just started running, i remember my suit was SOAKED, my boots were FULL of water, some of our friends couldn't come because of the rain, and I just remember thinking what am I doing haha, and as I kept running I just got this overwhelming feeling of joy, and a voice came to me saying "this is the true church", it was so increible, and even tho, soaking wet, and some of our friends couldn't make it because of the rain, the Lord testified to me of the truthfullness of this work! Like running in a thunderstorm, in a SUIT, with shoes soaking wet, looking for people who sometimes don't even care about this message, sounds crazy to the outside world, but its how us missionaries show our love to the Lord and his work😎
But this story did have a happy ending, the storm didn't stop Rocio from getting baptized🙌, found her last thursday, came to church last sunday, progressed in 10 days, straight pure☂️, i was feelin myself so decided to baptize in the jumpsuit🤑
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