Week 4

I'm sorry I couldn't do personalized emails this week. The library gave me an hour limit and I am racing against time right now. I wish there was more time to share everthing that's been happening. It's been hot but the biohemisphere has been beautiful once the ash from the sky has lifted up. I met people with the most amazing testimonies. Here's one experience.

 

Let's see. One of my coolest experiences was this older member we visited the other day. She is 85 years old and a widow. She came from Mexico with her husband in 1958 to Palm Desert. She got the missionaries and was converted and so was her daughter but the husband wasn't receptive. She and her daughter kept praying and then their prayer was answered when her husband got a heart attack. He came into the hospital dead but thanks to god, he was saved and got baptized 2 weeks later. She and her husband became temple workers and missionaries. Her husband died 2 years ago and she feels she still needs him. But she knows that god loves her and the gospel has blessed her so much in her life, she has absolutly nothing to complain about. She says her health is failing, but she sees it as god preparing her to come to heaven. What an optimistic lady!

 

I've realized that everyone's been low in numbers this week because of the transfer. We're going to have 8 missionaries in our little branch by the next transfer. We already have 6. It's crazy how much the Lord needs us right now. If everyone was active in out branch, we would have enough people for 2 wards! Mom and dad, thanks for being so hospitable to the missionaries when they have dinner with you. You turn the TV off, have good conversation, give healthy food and desert. I see now why you emphaisized that so much as a missionary. I have now realized what a humble ward I'm in. They have to feed 6 missionaries now but they barely make enough for themselves. They do have faith that they will be blessed if they do what the Lord asks.