Let me just say that I am grateful for all those hot summer hikes that we did as scouts up in the mountains, because this week was a lot of working hard in the burning sun. And it was awesome.
I have found that in the past year (that´s right, I´ve been out here a full year already!) my best weeks were the ones when we worked the hardest. Porque asi es. That´s just how it is. And I´m starting to realize that that´s how life is in general. The more you work in anything -a calling, a job, school studies, etc- the more you get out of it. If you want to have a good mission experience, you´ve got to forget yourself and get to work.
Nifty Little Weekly Experience!
So last week we went through our Area Book again. For those of you who don´t know, The Area Book is our binder where we keep the progress records of all our investigators. And we have records from 2013ish up until the current date of every investigator whom the missionaries here in Mezquital have visited. Anyways, we went through it and found Rosa, an investigator from about 2 years back whom the missionaries stopped visiting. We stopped by to pay her a visit and she accepted to recieve the lessions again. However, she didn´t really seem interested. The first visit we got to know her and about her family (she has 2 daughters and 1 son, but they don´t live with her anymore). We left doubting her interest in the gospel but we decided to teach her, invite her, and see if she progressed. We went one more time and taught both she and her daughter about the Restoration. To our surprise, they were very receptive and promised to read the Book of Mormon! We went back a few days later and found that she had read in Alma, prayed about it, and got her answer! Holy Huacamole! I was truthfully astounded! She was one of our investigators who had progressed the least, showed the least interest, and was most dedicated to another church, but she got the answer! It just goes to show you that God gives ¨liberally and abraideth not¨ to all who ask in faith (James 1:5). So just like that, a question was asked and an answer was given.
So that turned out to be super awesome!
Also, we make a cake this week! That super delicious lemon cake recipe that you sent me. And it turned out a bit ugly, but super tasty!
I hope you all have an amazing week!
I Love You!
Elder Phillips
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