Have miracles ceased?

Nay!

This week was a week of MIRACLES! Man, I love this place. I have so many storeies, I hope I have time to write them all.

 

First of all, we went less-active hunting this week, and we met a family who had a horse in their front yard. Now, there are dogs for DAYS in Cam Park, but a horse was new. As we were talking to them about it we found out his name... Obama. Because it was black. Bahaha.

Also, we had transfers this week! It was pretty crazy - I won't go into all the details, but Tuesday came around and our District leader got told he was leaving and his companion was training, which meant nobody was replacing him... so we were super confused. What ended up happening is that they split the District Leader area and we got 2 more missionaries in our zone (which is already really big. We have a zone of 26 missionaries now, and ALL of them serve in the English ward [but are split into different spanish wards]. I'm pretty sure it's probably the most missionaries in one single ward anywhere in the world...). Anyway, our new District Leader is Elder Pyrah, who has been an AP for the last 4 transfers, and this is the last transfer of his mission. That NEVER happens! We were pretty shocked. He's super cool though, and we're super excited for the things that will happen this transfer. :) Also, there are now 5 companionships in our district and 4 of the misisonaries are greenies. Que loco!

 

On Wednesday the 4 Elders from Los Fresnos (the DL area and other companionship) came with us to visit the 96 year old lady we found at the beginning of my mission. She's pretty close to dying, and her son requested that we come give her a blessing. So we all went, and it was the sweetest experience. One of the greenies gave the annointing for the first time in Spanish, and then another elder gave a beautiful blessing. Afterward we all sang a hymn, and then the missionaries were talking with her caretaker and I went over and held her hand and talked with to her a little bit, and she lit up and was just beaming through the whole experience. I remember when we were little and how I always dreaded going to the rest homes and hospitals. I don't know why it was so horribly painful as a young child, but now I understand why we kept going - those experiences are so sweet and so close to the veil. It makes me so grateful for the knowledge of the Plan of Salvation and the wonderful blessings of the gospel.

 

We have an investigator named Mario, and the other day we went by his house and he wasn't home. But his mother was, and she was in the middle of watching a youtube video of a mexican gospel song on her phone, and so she spend like 5 minutes singing along with it to us and bearing her testimony of her feelings. It was one of the most unique experiences I've ever had. I seriously just love the people here so much! Then later, when we DID have a lesson with Mario, he offered to give us one of his Parrots. That was probably the most tempted I've been to break a misison rule.. but I withheld.

 

Another funny story - on Wednesday night we got a call from the Zone Leaders saying that the STLs needed to move in with us for a few weeks, so when we got home we frantically moved all our furniture and moved all of our stuff so that there was space for them. The next morning we finished moving/cleaning, and then at 11 when they were supposed to come, we made lunch for them and us. We hadn't heard anything, so we texted... Evidently the ZL's forgot to tell us that they changed their minds. So we moved everything in vain. Oops. We had a good laugh about it, and then we got a text from them that said "did you really make lunch for them?" to which we replied "yeah, are you hungry?" so the Zone Leaders came and took the food that the sisters were going to eat. They also gave us apology presents - two suckers, a CD with tab choir music, and post-it notes.

 

Well, I hope all is well! You're all in my prayers and thoughts :) Love you greatly.
Mormon 9:15-19
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Hermana Reynolds

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