Dad Mode Activated

 The mission as I have experienced goes a little bit like this... you have weeks where it just seems like everyone wants to talk to you and then you have the week that we had, lot of rejection. But like they also say rejection builds character, don't really think anyone has said that but hey it kept me going

Now i'm not trynna say that not a single person decided to listen to us this week, but we just had to work a little bit harder ya know, but we found a CRAZY miracle. Friday afternoon, and it was a pretty rough day, we had found no one the entire week and I was loosin some hope. And me and my comp had been having a ton of bike problems, they kept breaking down but we kept going, we were riding our bike and we rode passed this family sitting outside, we weren't gonna contact them for whatever reasom but right when we passed by, my comps chain fell off, right as it felt off we just looked at eachother and knew, so we went and contacted the family

It was a single mom from Peru and she had 5 kids, we talked to them and they were SO elect! The oldest daughter, who's 17, accepted a book of mormom and read like 10 pages her first night, prayed, and said she felt it was true, we didn't even ask her! 2 of them came to church and are preparing to get baptized next sunday, crazy to say the biggest miracle this week was my comp's chain fallin off

But we went straight dad mode on saturday, we have been teaching this guy who lives in the snack stand at a soccer field, don't ask me how, but the soccer field is a bit run down, and their are these workers that we also see, and we always beg them to let us help them, and on saturday they let us do a service project and we cut the soccer field with the tiniest little lawnmower ever it was so funny, basically a dad ya feel

Also bad news, we got transfers and i got stuck with my comp another 6 weeks....sikeeeeee me and my boy elder harper gonna go crazy for another 6 weeks🌊

Love yall!

Baptisms In The Rain

 On Tuesday, I did a comp exchange with one of the elders in our zone, he's from Mexico and lets just say he is quite the character, it was probably one of the most interesting days of my life. He's like 27 years old, and he tries to baptize every single person he talks to its so funny, he makes sure to ask every contact "have you been baptized", now that ladies and gentleman is an inspired question. He also complained the entire time that the food wasn't spicy enough, you just gotta love them mexicans, felt right at home, shoutout Arizona

The Lord has truly been blessing our area so much, we had a girl come to church last week, she's 16, she was on date for baptism but we needed the signature from her mom for her to get baptized on sunday, so we went on Wednesday to talk to the mom and lets just say things got heated fast, the mom DOES NOT like us or the church (and we found out she was a member half way through the conversation), but after 1 HOUR of straight begging her haha, nothing worked, then I said the most heartfelt prayer ever, we showed her the signature and even her daughter shared why she wanted to get baptized, after ALL that she said no, then we just kept insisting and then she got sick of us and threw the white towel in and gave us the signatur, NEVER GIVE UP

But like I said, we had 3 more baptisms yesterday it was awesome, Juan Carlos (Camila's step dad), Camila(who's mom we begged), and Celeste! Their all such studs and the Lord helped us so much in progressing them. What was cool about this is that it was raining on Sunday, and our baptismal font is outside jaja so they got baptized while it was kinda raining it was cool. Celeste is one of my favorite converts, after her baptism she went in front and bared her testimony of how much she loved church and how she wants to endure to the end, for context we found Celeste 9 days ago! And she got baptized yesterday que grande

Something I also focused on this week was having a good personal study, sometimes I have days where i'm not gonna lie i read the scriptures and don't get too much out of it, I read to read you can say, but this week I truly tried to have life changing personal studies and just by trying to have a good study in the morning, changed the course of my whole day! Never forget to start your day off right

Being a zone leader has helped me so much as a missionary and as a person, its helped me think less about myself and more about the Lord and his work, I truly know this is the Savior's work, and as I've put other people first the Lord has blessed me with increased joy and happiness! Isn't that amazing, when we think less of our ourselves, God gets more out of us, gosh that was such a bar throw that on a bumper sticker

Love yall!

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The Field Is White

 These weeks go by too fast I don't get it, theres just too much that happens during the week

Something we do a lot as zone leaders is comp exchanges, and we do a lot of them, this week we did 2 and I love doing comp exchanges, its always fun to be with other people and help other companionships, my favorite thing to do on comp exchanges is run, so on Tuesday I was on a comp exchange with Elder Jensen and i woke him up early and we ran a 5k, they always look at me like im crazy but its the greatest, how you start your day is how your day will go

We saw SO many miracles this week, the family that came to church last week, i dont know if I talked about them in my last email, we contacted a family last week in their house and they all got to church last week and the 3 kids all got baptized yesterday woot woot! There names are Jorgelina, Jesus, y Trinidad, I literally baptized Jesus call me John the Baptist

Last week we also found this inactive member and we put her little 10 year old on date for baptism! Yesterday he also got baptized, his name is Ciro and he is the most goated person ever, his mom is even more awesome, she is so happy to be back at church, she already invited us over for lunch, i love the joy the gospel brings!!

So yesterday we had 4 baptisms and we also got 4 more people to church and 3 of them are on baptism for this upcomimg Sunday!!! God is blessing us so much its insane, something i've been learning this transfer is that God really loves everyone, and he has been preparing so many of his kids to recieve his gospel, the work is accelerating

I truly love this gospel, I love the Savior, I love this church and I love helping others find the joy of this gospel

Almost starting my last 6 months in the field, gonna cry, the mission is just amazing i love it

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New Year, New Me

 I think the weirdest feeling about being in 2025 is that ima see my family this year. I don't even know what normal life is like, like this is everything I do, i've basically convinced myself ima be a missionary for life, #lifetimeextension

So many miracles that happened this week I don't even know where to start. I think the biggest miracle was that the same family that invited us over for Christmas, invited us over for New Year's, this time i wasn't sick and didn't throw up in their bathroom, and we ate goooodd sheeshhhh, such a miracle, like we need to realize being healthy is such a miracle

Also I don't know what it is but the AP's called us up and decided to do ANOTHER comp exchange, my second one in the last two weeks. I did finally figure out that the comp exchange I did with them 2 weeks ago was to see if I was ready to go zone leader, i totally passed, but this time I was with the other AP elder amosa, he's from australia, such a dawg, i think my favorite thing was just hearin that nice australian accent jaja so sickkkkk, gave me some good leader advice, he's also 6 years older than me kinda nuts

Some miracles real fast, we contacted this one family of 4 and 3 of them got to church this week it was awesome, an inactive mom brought her 9 year old to church who's getting baptized this next sunday, a lady I contacted over a week ago that had promised me she would come to church yesterday...actually pulled up it was a crazy miracle, me and my comp I feel like have been workin so well he's such a dawg I love him, our zone is doing better then it has been in months, every thing is just going uphill right I love it! But always gotta be humble and grateful in recognizing everything comes from the Lord

I'll end with a quote from a Kanye song....."tell me if you know someone that needs Jesus Lord" , name the song and i'll add you to my prayer list

Also my 2025 goals i'll give you em..

-drink a gallon of water everyday

-read the book of mormon everyday this year

-50 pushups and 20 pullups every night

Were doing good so far, only 360 more days to go

Love yall👻

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