Last week Hna Navarro and I improved a lot in a lot of things. We´ve been working to be more obedient to the mission schedule. We started jogging in the mornings so we can wake up better. And now we start our personal study by singing a hymn together, so we are motivated to be ready to start studying on time. We´re committed to continue improving and supporting each other to be more obedient. We taught more lessons and found more new investigators too. I´m excited to see the changes we can make this week.
The biggest miracle of our week was that Marta, Miriam, Miriam´s daughters Daiana and Mariana, and Olga, came to sacrament meeting. On Saturday Marta and Miriam agreed to let us pick them up for church. It helped that Marta had already told Miriam that she felt peace during our lesson with her last week. I think they also agreed to come because we tried hard to resolve their doubts and questions instead of sticking to what we had planned to teach. That same day we taught Olga and she said she felt well enough (she´s had a cold) to come to sacrament meeting.
On Sunday we picked up Marta, Miriam, Daiana and Mariana and were able to arrive just a few minutes late to the first hour of meetings. It was really inspiring to see Marta and Miriam exercise their faith by coming to church. Olga showed up for sacrament meeting. I felt so happy to see so many of my investigators where the Lord wanted them to be-- in the chapel. It´s been over 5 months since I´ve seen 5 investigators in sacrament meeting! I want to work hard so that they can come to church again and so that more of our investigators can come to church!
Another big miracle of the week was visiting and praying for Hna Teresa, a convert of 3 years. She hasn´t been able to come to church for a while because she is in a wheel chair because she lost a leg because of her diabetes and she has an ulcer on one of the toes of her remaining foot. The doctors said her toe would have to be amputated. But she received a blessing for the sick from the second counselor and the next day the doctor said they would wait the weekend to operate because her toe was improving. When we went to visit her, we were impressed by her faith that she wouldn´t need the operation, in spite of the pain she was still in. I said a prayer with her that the pain would be less, that her toe would heal, and that she could sleep the whole night. I remember being surprised at the confidence I felt that the prayer would be answered. The next day when we stopped by to visit Hna Teresa said the pain was gone-- her foot just stings and itches, which is a sign that it´s healing. She said that she had slept without being woken by the pain! She will find out from the doctor today if she needs to have the toe amputated, but we´re all hoping for the best. I know that Heavenly Father answers our prayers when we pray with faith.
Love,Ellis
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