Hey fam! I had an awesome week. Not like... a TON happened. But it was just a good week! We had some good accomplishments and some good spiritual highs! I shall share.
Well first off. CHRISTMAS PACKAGE ARRIVED!!!! Oh yeah!!!!! Suhweeeeet!!!! I shall send some pictures, but thanks so much to the fam for sending me my stuff :) I opened the things that werent wrapped... but was wondering if im supposed to wait until christmas to open the other ones?... :P haha. But thank you so much for that! My comp and i are way stoked haha.
That was a fantastic highlihgt of the week. So another fun thing from the week was last monday night...
So one day during our verification with the assistants, they encouraged us to do more finding of investigators, and to be super creative and just do something crazy to be able to find more investigators! Well.... just coincidentally, a day or two before Elder Holt and I had run into a guy who is in charge of an american football program here... who has a team who is new and inexperienced, and he invited us one day to their practice to help them out with their plays and just everything. Well I dont know anything about football, but I love sports. AndElder Holt played quarterback in highschool. and we have an elder in our zone who played for BYU. Sooooo.... After that, and after the assistants telling us to just do something crazy to find, we took advantage of the invitation and monday night we went to their football practice with them and played. There wasnt much contact. We obviously didnt use pads. but.... IT WAS SO FUN. hahaha. I have a few pictures that ill send of that as well. So that was awesome. Last week we kind of just built confidence with everyone, but were going again one more time tonight to help them out... but this time were gonna bring some materials like folletos and books of mormon and what not to gift and invite them to church and to listen to the missionaries. Hopefully we get some good results out of it... because if not... Well. its just a waste of time haha. but ill send pictures so you can see. And hopefully things turn out well. If not... oh well. it was fun while it lasted.
Another cool thing from the week was that i had a mini cambio with one of the assistants on Friday that went really well. His name isElder Morgan from utah, and hes awesome. hes way young in the mission too. He only has a little more than a year, but hes a way good missinary and we get along really well haha. Anyway it was awesome to be with him and he taught me alot of good stuff that im really excited to apply. it was just a good experience that put me on the spiritual high i referred to at the beginning of the email.
Other thing. Elder Holt has this like... study book about the book of mormon... I have no idea what to call it. But its just like a Book of Mormon manual that you can use as you study the book of mormon thats way good and way interesting, so im excited to use it as i study the book of mormon to learn more. So its got me way pumped to be reading through the book of mormon. Ive started over and im currently in 1 nefi 16.
Also on Thursday we had a capacitacion de lideres that was also really good, where I learned alot, and also put me on a spiritual high! haha. So it was all good.
andddd the last awesome thing from the week is that this week we were able to have 6 investigators in church this sunday! Which is super super good. The family of 4 came to church, and had a really good experience. So were very excited about them. Were working so that theyll be more than ready to be baptized in the month of december! We also had 2 menos activa families come that have one kid not baptized, so were working with them so they can also be ready to be baptized in december! December could be an exciting month!!! because we also have one more familia menos activa that has a child not baptized, who love church and are so excited to come back and the kid is excited to get baptized... but the mom is stopping him from getting baptized... because shes conviviendo (living with her partner without being married) and so shes not living the law of castidad, and her pareja causes aLOT of problems and drama... so this week were going to teach her about the law of castidad... and were hoping it will change her heart and that shell repent and make the right choice to NOT convivir... So we need her in our prayers because shes kind of sensitive and could very easily get really offended. So we`ll be praying hard. So yeah. Thats an investigator update. Were doing really good because we have alot of people progressing to teach!!
y eso. eso es basicamente todo. Thats about all folks! That was my week. And thats why it was a really good week. Just full of lots of highs and lots of good happenings. So im loving it! Hopefully it all keeps up like that and that everything goes well with these people that we have to teach.
I love being a missionary and i love the work that im doing. Its the best. Okay last little spiritual share.
The thing ive learned most on the mission is the importance of the spirit in my life. The importance of having the companionship of the holy ghost and being able to recognize it day by day. And ive learned and seen many times that the best feeling ever is not finding a new investigator, or having an awesome lesson, or when an investigator gets baptized or confirmed. Those are super exciting and i feel great! But the best feeling ever and the best feelings ive had on the mission have been when the promise of Eter 12:6 has come true, and after having had the faith to follow what I thought was a prompting of the spirit, I later receive a witness that i really did follow the spirit and was able to be an instrument in the hands of the lord and bless the life of someone else or just complete with whatever it was the lord wanted me to do. The best feeling ever is KNOWING that I recognized and followed the Holy Ghost. And I invite you all to strive to do the same. Cuz its the best feeling ever. I hope that all made sense. Talking about the gospel is super weird in english haha. Its easier in spanish.
ANYWAY. Thats all I have for today. I love you and miss you all. Have an awesome week! Chauito.
Elder Heyman
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