Week 78

This week was a good one! Yesterday we found out that my companion will be getting transferred and I will be staying here in Rocha with a new companion, Elder Hemeyer! I have talked to him before and he seems like a great missionary, he`s from Arizona. 

This week we also found some women who have been waiting for the Gospel! We have been trying to work more with the church members, so that they will help us find and teach their friends. This last week we planned to visit a friend of the Relief Society President in our branch. She was going to come with us, and it was going to be great. She just told us to make sure to contact her before-hand and make sure she could still come. When the day arrived, we messaged the sister and asked her if we could still go with her to visit her friends, she didn`t respond. As the day went on we tried calling her several times and the phone had been turned off. We decided to go to the meeting spot at the time we had decided on and wait for the sister. After 15 minutes we decided that it would be better to go and contact the friend anyway even though we wouldn`t be able to go with the member. It was incredible! When we knocked the door, the Relief Society President was already inside talking to her friends about the Gospel and about the missionaries! We were able to meet two wonderful women who have really gone through a lot. Both have lost their husbands and one also lost a son. As we talked to them I could see that they had been waiting for a message like the Gospel of Jesus Christ, for a long time! Sadly we weren`t able to go into the home because there were only women inside, and as missionaries we have to have another grown man with us in order to go into a home with women.  It was probably the hardest moment in my mission, when I had to decided whether or not to obey the rules! HAha! I could just see that they needed our message so much and that it would bring them so much peace and hope. Another day we will be going by very soon and I know that they will finally find the healing and peace they have been looking for!

Love y'all!

Elder Cole