God is a Miracle Worker

 Hello hello hello!


I hope you all had an amazing week! Cause I sure did! To catch y'all up:

>Had intercambios with Elder Noorda, we got to extend a baptismal date to a brother in their area and he accepted!
>Elder Wilks and I found many new people this week, one of which accepted a baptismal date the very first visit.
>We printed and gave some baptismal invitations to Hermana Flor for her baptism that is coming this next week and as she looked at them she began to jump and yell because of how happy and excited she is to be able to be baptized.
>The mission handyman, Gustavo, came over one night to put chicken wire on the window by my bed so we don't have to worry about rats coming in and sleeping with me anymore. Because that may or may have not happened...
>Hermana Melanie was baptized!!

This was crazy, we worked very hard even when people would straight up say they don't want to listen and/or hid from us behind tinted mirror windows that we could still see through. And because we kept working, God began to bless us with some miracles. One of which is named Jerson Barrera. Jerson is the son of an inactive member that we were looking for one day. We were looking for some inactive members and were rejected one after another until the last house we were going to visit was the house of an Ana Navarro. We knocked on the metal and no one answered. Knocked again and this 16 year old boy who looked like he just woke up after a good nap came to the gate. We said a little joke like, "hey we'd like to share a quick message with you about Jesus, we don't want to take too much time so it'll probably take about 3 hours." His answer was alright come on in. Our jaws literally dropped, we entered and talked about baptism. After talking with him about it I simply asked him if he has ever been baptized before or if he had ever thought of doing it. His answer "No I haven't, but I would really like to." Jaws dropped again. From there on we made a plan with him and began to explain the process and now he is preparing to be baptized. That day God decided I needed to realize that He is truly running his work here in Guatemala. Even though I am walking around and talking about it, He is the one doing it. All we had to do was walk around for a couple hours trying to talk with people until we came up to a young boy of 16 years that God has already prepared. His elect. This is God's work. He has his plans and they will always work better than ours.

I hope you all have a very good week and I hope you can all look for and see the way that God's hands are guiding you in your lives. And when you do see it, go ahead and share it with me, I'd love to hear your experiences. But for now this is it. I'll talk to y'all next week. Love y'all!

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