Family, friends, acquaintances. I hope you're all just as excited as I am to have a fresh start with this new week. This week a cold front has hit Durango which has been amazing. We got an emergency message that told us that temperatures in Torreon and Chiuaua were going to get as low as -25 degrees Celsius. Mexico is whack.
This week wasn't the worst but wasn't particularly the best. To show this I wanted to play a game of good thing bad thing with myself, you can play along if you really want to.
GOOD THINGS
- -It rained yesterday
- -We found a dope guy named Rogellio
- -Had consistent water for almost the whole week🥳
- -No Cholo or witch sightings
- -Finished giving my first talk in Spanish
BAD THINGS
- -Companionship struggles
- -People of Mexico hate the gospel now
- -everyone has Covid
- -Had to give a talk in Spanish lol
Man that was a fun game. My talk ended up being 12 minutes long which I was stoked about. I even saw a couple of ladies nodding their head in agreement at a couple of the things I said.
Pretty much everyone in Mexico has Covid rn. The new megatron or decepticon or omnitryx or whatever strain has taken over missionary work in the course of one week. Last week there was nothing. This week all of our investigators have "The Gripe." AND to top off the Covid news, we found out that we can't do activities with the other missionaries. Who knows what's happening though because the district leader invited us to play basketball today ahaha.
One mini miracle. A kid named Jonathan is super interested in the church and has read the entire book of mormon. Unfortunately, the past couple times we've gone over to teach him, his sketchy dad has sent us away. Both times he has talked through the door which we thought was weird.
Fast forward a week and me and Sanchez were taking a really weird route to get to my guy Rogellios house. We passed through a park and E. Sanchez told me in broken English that it was Spanish practice time. Before I knew what to think, he walked up to a random person and said that I wanted to explain the Book of Mormon to him. I rolled with it and stumbled through a 3 minute lesson. Halfway through the lesson though, he stopped me and ended up teaching me the rest of the lesson... I was a bit confused to say the least ahaha. After he was done talking he was like you guys don't realize who I am huh.
Turns out that the random guy Sanchez picked was Jonathan's dad!! So insanely random and crazy. He was a super nice dude and apparently his wife and daughter are baptized. We're now going to give a lesson to them this Friday🥳
I know that experience wasn't just a coincidence. I am positive we were led to talk to him at that very time. The Lord directs us through our lives in weird, hard to understand ways. Nonetheless, he is directing is to where we need to be.
Have faith and find comfort in the fact that God is leading you to where you need to be
-E. Winegar🦂
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