This week really has been pretty awesome!
Started off with a really cool spiritual confirmation. I had been praying the past little while since President Monson passed away that I would be able to have a confirmation that the new prophet really was selected by the Lord. Well Tuesday afternoon as we were watching the announcement to the church members as soon as President Russel M. Nelson began to speak I felt the spirit wash over me in such a powerful way that I could not deny it. It is ever so amazing to me that God does really hear our prayers and answers them individually. What a blessing it is to have a prophet on the earth in our day and have the capability of knowing ourselves that he is just that, through personal revelation. God does still love us and for this reason he gives these great tools and teachers, to help us prepare to return to him.
As a mission this week we received another really awesome tool. On Tuesday we attended a zone conference training meeting where we received the new smartphones. Finally we have received authorization to proselyte online. Along with the new smartphones we have received access to applications such as Facebook, WhatsApp and Skype to use in our teaching efforts. During the past couple of days we have already seen a huge increase in responsiveness to our messages! The communication is an essential part of this work and these new tools will allow us to reach out to more people on a much broader scale.
I’d like to finish up by sharing two cool little miracles that happened this week.
First of all my companion and I have gotten back on the exercise grind lately getting meaningful workouts in to start of the day right. Haha we only had some small dumbbells so we were doing what we could with those but all the time wishing we had something more. Well this week we were helping a lady clean out and organize her storage room when I came upon an old bench and bar. She said she was going to throw it out and that if we wanted it we could take it. We were like YES we totally want it! Haha. So she gave it to us. It was pretty funny because we live like 30 minutes from her house so we were walking through the city trying to carry all this equipment and weight. We got a couple of funny looks haha.
The second miracle is even better. We haven’t been able to get an investigator to church for quite a while now but Nono promised he would come this week and we were really excited. Well yesterday morning rolls around and we head over to his house to pick him up. We toke the door and nothing so we toke again and still no answer. It was getting pretty late and we had to get to the church so we decided to leave. As we were walking there I felt pretty disappointed because we were just so excited for him to finally come again. Anyways we show up to the church and start welcoming everyone. A random guy just randomly showed up so I introduced myself and invited him in to sit with us. Well he ended up staying all 3 hours and loved it. Turns out he is the grandson of an old member who lives out in Puerto Real. She is pretty sick and is confined to her house so he moved over to help take care of her. He got curious from all the stuff she told him and decided to come check it out! So that was way awesome, now we have 2 citas with him this week :)
So overall a pretty good week. I wish you all the best. Keeping you in my prayers always.
Love y’all,
- Élder Alex M. Childers
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