Week 62

This week was great! I had the chance to go to Montevideo 2 days back to back this week and it definitely took a little bit of a toll. We just had a lot to do when we were finally able to work in Maldonado and having conferences always drains me spiritually. But as always it was incredible to get extra guidance from President Eddy and I feel like there just aren`t enough hours in the day to do everything that I want to get done.  This week the Lord showed me, however, that even though we have to be home by 9pm and can`t leave the house until 10am He will make it possible for us to accomplish everything we need to, IF we put forth the diligence and work. We had 2 miracles this week! 

1) By the weekend we had worked hard, but we were a little nervous because we had gone all week without finding anyone new to teach.  As we worked all week it just seemed like we were almost working in vain, but the Lord helped us find the people that He is truly preparing! We decided to go visit a single mother that we met last week and see if we could talk to her and her 9 year old son. When we showed up to her house we didn`t just find her, but also several of her kids (we found out later that she has 10 kids!) and we had the chance to get to know them and share the Book of Mormon with their family! 

2)  Another day this week we worked hard and just didn`t seem to find any success, the only glimmer of light that we had was a Family Home Evening that night.  Just as the sun was going down we arrived at the Family Home Evening and found out that the family had to cancel and now we stuck with not much to do and a couple of hours in the day. We decided to go visit a family that we had talked to a couple of weeks ago, but had rejected us. I have no doubt that the Lord inspired us to go because we had to walk half an hour to get there and if it was up to me we probably wouldn`t have gone haha! But we went and we were able to sit down and get to know this great family of 4 that is really looking for some religious clarity. 

In both these experiences it is clear to me that the Lord has listened and responded to my prayers. Last week I fasted especially that we would be able to find a family that would be prepared for us to teach. Since that time, we have found and began teaching several families about the Gospel of Jesus Christ!  The Gospel truly is a blessing in our lives and I am so glad that I can be the means by which the Lord will help others feel these blessings! 

Love y'all! Hope all is well at home!

Love,

Elder Cole

Parts from the family email:

We only had the weekend to get all the work we needed to do done before Sunday. It was really stressful. We are teaching a family right now and the dad is a less active member, but he is super cool and wants his 4 kids to be baptized! We are also working with another young man that heard about the church from his cousin and now he is willing to do anything (quit smoking, read the Book of Mormon, come to church) so that he can be baptized! We are super glad we found him! We have also been looking for new people to teach and we ended up finding a family with a single mom and 10 kids! Some are older, but it is going to be a huge chance to strengthen this family!  

All is good here! Love y'all!

Love,

Elder Cole