Vampire Miracle

ANOTHER FANTASTIC WEEK.

Life's good, I am just still loving being a trainer! Elder Arias is an amazing missionary and with him we have so many miracles together, it is awesome!!!! So i want to share some of those miracles!

First off on tuesday we had zone training meeting and instead of taking a jeep we did different means of transportation which felt weird...our zone leaders are really into hitching rides so we hitched rides all the way there and all the way back, we got a ride on a delivery bike, someones car, a MASSIVE garbage truck and an old guy's mercedes benz. It was pretty nice hahaha.

We have been working with this one lady named Marivic and she is again an angel and saint and will be forever blessed. She is the most helpful person when it comes to doing missionary work and reminds of Sister Arellano the person in my last area. Multiple times she had us come over and teach a bunch of her friends. We had a really good lesson with this one lady Ermina and the sad thing about Ermina is that her son just abandoned her and she hasnt seen him for 4 months, he is only 17 years old. We shared her about the message of the gospel and how through Christ we can be cleansed, it was awesome! She loved it and felt so much comfort.

One day we had so many things happened, it was crazy it felt like everything was going wrong! We first had workers cancel on us and then we taught a lesson where we feel like we did not do the best job and then we tried to find someone and got sent all over the place. I dont tend to get to discouraged because I am a strong believer in that things happen for a reason so we prayed really strong that a miracle will happen and then BAM! Next thing we know we find the people we were looking for and when we got out we were approached by this ladyt asking us where our church is so she can attend and she said that she wants to be taught! What are the chances! We ended up teaching them and had a great lesson and they really want to know the truthfulness of our message! It was truly a miracle. and it reminded me of this scripture Alma 26:27 Now when our hearts were depressed, and we were about to turn back, behold, the Lord comforted us, and said: Go amongst thy brethren, the Lamanites, and bear with patience thine afflictions, and I will give unto you success.

Also on Friday i convinced this girl in the family we taught that i was a vampire...some people here are funny sometimes hahaha. dont worry i told her the truth.:) it was actually really cool how we met that family because we were looking for someone else but got lost and went down this one street and asked someone if they knew angelica and then they replied, "Erica?" she lives down there. I was confused because i was not looking for erica but we decided to go down there and it turns out that this family was taught by the missionaries that we replaced but they did not keep any record of them so we didnt have any idea. Awesome that we were able to find them!

Miracles are everywhere in God's work and i know He is waiting to give all of you miracles when you seek for them in His work. Love you all!

Elder Wrightme washing an investigator's clothes

the garbage truck we got a ride in!

Provido family

The De Leon family i visited them and they are from my old area

CHILEAN ANAK

YEAH!!!!!!! MY TRAINEE IS FROM CHILEEEEEEEEE!!!!! I have the all time coolest companion ever!...His name is Elder Arias and he is already such a great missionary and so excited to learn and work. He told me that after his training his goal is to train and i really hope that he will be able to be ready! I am so excited for these next two transfers! This week is a crazy one because on top of being a District Leader (helping train a group of missionaries) and training. Elder Arias and I were moved to an area that i have never been to before and we did not have any progressing people or really anyone in our teaching pool. Despite the challenge we have had the best time, funny experiences and miracles already in 5 days!

Wednesday started with me having to haul my luggage all of the way out of our subdivision so i can get to the mission office and be ready for the trainers meeting. By the time i got there i already knew who my companion was because President Hughes asked me how my spanish was. I was just waiting the whole meeting for the moment that Elder Arias found out. President Hughes gave us some great tips on being trainers and helped us memorize ten principles with this cool tip that he taught us. Eventually we got to the house and we got settled in a bit and the zone leaders were there to help us out a little and show us some direction on the map and where our area was. we decided to go out and find some members to visit to get a little start to being familiar with the area. Our first visit was at a families house who was super nice. There we had a good lesson and taught about the Restored Gospel and the family was really nice so nice that they gave us a little snack at the end, hot chocolate and some cookies. I was happy to drink the hot chocolate but as soon as i looked in the cup, there i see ants floating around in the drink...I  know ants are small and harmless but when i saw that i was like "ah man..." I didnt want to offend them but i didnnt want to eat the ants. I saw that Elder Arias too was looking at me and had ants in his drink and was staring at me waiting to know what to do. carefully i got the idea that as i was stirring for it to cool down to slowly scoop them up on the side of the drink where i wouldnt drink and they would stick. Elder Arias carefully observed and followed, it was a success! hahaha. After we visited the Tagulabong family and they were so happy to see us and said that they wanted to do a family home evening! awesome!

Thursday we had to do some deep cleaning so that was the first thing that we did. My trainee still has not had a normal day yet hahaha but he is adjusting well even though at first he was kind of like "whatt??" hahha i love the look of people on the first day in a new country hahahaha! However he is already doing really good and has started taking initiative in planning and teaching! I love it! makes things so much easier!  Elder Arias suggested that with any members that we visit we focus on the Book of Mormon. He shared an amazing testimony to both Sister Gonzales and the Provido family. He helped strengthen my testimony ion the Book of Mormon and its power in conversion these past couple days. even though i am just finishing and he is just starting, i have so much to learn from him!

Friday was my brithday! Wooo! I am now 20! it feels crazy i still feel like a senior in high school...I will probably keep saying that until im 50 like everyone else. Now i understand. The night before I had to break the news to Elder Arias about how to go to the bathroom...he didnt believe me for one second but eventually her accepted his fate for the next two years hahaha that has probably been a highlight so far in my training hahaha but still he is adjusting well. Elder and Sister Ogden came and brought me a cake which was awesome! they are so nice and considerate! This day we had so many miracles, we met so many new people who want us to teach them because we have been talking to everyone and truly they have been seeing the light we hold. We found this one lady named Anna Marie and she is a member who has not been to church for three years and her daughter has leukemia and we offered to give her daughter a blessing but she was busy so she told us to come back another day.

Saturday was a crazy day we met more people and really started teaching nonmembers and met Daisy and Rolando who had a baby that passed away. We taught them about the Plan of Salvation and we talked about the joy in the plan. It started going to long so we had to set a return appointment. We also got to teach June and his family who we foudn the day before. He is golden he just loves and the message, he did not understand everything but we gave him a Book of Mormon and he said he would read it and wanted to make us food and told us to come back the next day. AMAZING!

Sunday was awesome! Easter was truly celebrated right by sharing the Gospel and bearing witness of the Savior. We visited Anna Marie and she let us come into her home. we knew she was under a lot of stress so we shared about the Atonement of Jesus Christ and about His healing power, the spirit was strong in the lesson and we could tell that she loved it. It felt so good to bring comfort to her and also give her daughter with leukemia a blessing. June taught us again and we explained the Restoration of the Gospel better and he said he wanted to come to church. He talked about his regrets from the past but I tesitfied that through the Gospel and through Jesus Christ all sins and regrets can be cleansed and erased. I know that is true. I know Christ lives, I know that Heavenly Father lives. The Book of Mormon is a testimony of these things and that Joseph Smith was the instrument called of God to testify of these truths. I know these things to be true and i say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

it's so hot!!!!

Daisy and Ronaldo

he fell asleep

i will miss these kids!

Big worm in the bathroom!!

Bye Bye Deparo Ward

Well it looks like i am leaving now! It is crazy to think that i have been here for so long! More than 6 months! I have never stayed in one area that long I have loved my time here though. I am really excited for the next transfer because I have been informed that i will be going back to San Jose Del Monte and i will be a district leader TRAINER!!!!!!! I am so excited to be a trainer! it will be amazing! Tomorrow i get to find out who he is. Its crazy to think that he will now be my last companion and SJDM will be the last place i serve. I am so excited for the next 12 weeks!

On monday I got to go visit the Toting family and that was really nice they were a family that had recently returned from being less active and i was only serving in that area for two weeks and for some reason i was able to leave a big impact on her. It was great being able to visit her again and see how they were doing.

On tuesday, I got to see the Sales family and we taught the importance of tithing and fast offering and we had such a good lesson, Jeans mom is still progressing towards baptism and going strong but we had such a great conversation about keeping the commandments and the great blessings! 

I think i want to do this email different. This week was crazy because of everything that was going on so i dont really remember all of the little things that happened but one thing that really has impressed on to me is the the importance of just loving people and being mindful of how you spend time with them. I had the opportunity to say goodbye to the families that i have spent so many cherished memories with and it was a bittersweet goobye. I have grown so close to them and i have seen their testimonies strengthened. I wish i could tell you it all but it's a lot! When you act as a discple of Jesus Christ it is true that your light shines to everyone around you and they slowly change and come closer to him as well. I have a testimony that our testimonies are so very important because we dont only strengthen yourself but you stengthen those around you!

I love you all! and hope you have a great week!

Elder Wright

Conversion Miracles (Elder Lowrey)

HEY!

This week was really satisfying. I forgot to mention last week that Grace got baptized after church and we ended the week with both Jyyyyuana and Jyyyyocelyn being baptized. It was amazing! This week i just want to share a few stories that were touching.

Jyyyyocelyn is a mother of a fairly big family. For a long time, around 12 years or Jocelyn has been taught by many different missionaries but she has never been interested in being baptized but the kids were fellow-shipped by the church and stayed active even at times where the dad couldn't attend because of work and didn't attend much. Many times the mom rejected being baptized and when she finally said yes, it still took awhile, partially due to her schedule at work. After months of teaching her and trying to prepare her this sunday she finally got baptized this last saturday and it was awesome to have been able to be here for her change of heart. I can feel that things will be so much better for the family. Last sunday we talked and we started preparing them for the next step, Temple Marriage. I love the temple and i love focusing on Eternal Families! What great a truth that we believe in that our families can be together forever and we have the authority in the Church to do this wonderful ordinance!

Another miracle was that Jyyyyuana does not really remember a lot of what we really teach her because she just really cannot remember but she passed her baptismal interview and remembered some of what we have taught her and she has strong faith and wants to do what is right! She is awesome! I am so proud of her!

Sister Ayyyyrellano (our amazing referral giving member) told me her story about how a year after she got baptized that every day she would wake up at 4am to study the scriptures and she would pray for her husband and she would pray for guidance that she would know how to help him. Over the course of a year she saw his conversion as he got rid of the vices that he had and slowly came and changed completely who he was and now loves going to church and making Christ the center in their home.

I am just amazed at these wonderful people's stories and testimonies. I love being apart of their stories and helping them come unto Christ. The mission truly is one of the best things ever! I love the chance to forget about myself and help others. I miss you all and hope you all have a great week!

Elder Wright

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