Ok so this week was the fastest week of my mission so far, just so many things happened that were either just crazy or really just cool lol.. So last Tuesday was Elder Keller's 22 birthday so we made some choripans they were sickly good. Then Wednesday started, right now we are teaching a "prophetess", her and her husband are the pastors for San Pablo Evangelico church. They invited us to their church to attend and they said we could have 10 min to talk at the end. We agreed and got permission from our leaders to attend. Okay, talk about an experience! At first I was like ok this is good, all the children we were happy and jazz. The first song was alright, alot of instruments and yelling but hey it had a good message and I still felt good, but then they rang a bell and everyone fell to the ground or had their arms raised and began to pray aloud and some people were blessing and healing each other. I have never felt the Holy Ghost leave so fast. I felt limp as if all love and all the peace had left my soul. I have experienced the Spirit leaving before but not like that. I can not describe it, other things happened like a magical hat that was passed around by a young girl to collect money. Then we had more yelling and singing and praying. At first I was angry in my heart at what I had seen, until I looked at the children and and some of the other people and it hit me, how they don't know. They are lost, yes some are not. but I began to feel the pain and sorrow that I think some of the prophets in the Book of Mormon felt. Finally it was our turn to talk, I turned to my comp and was like.... yeah I got this.... I taught simple doctrines like who is God? I asked them if they even knew who they were praying to or why. I bore testimony of the restored gospel and of God as our father and of Jesus Christ who is a separate being than God. I said a few other things I'm sure dad could guess what scriptures I used and ended. Throughout this week we have found 2 families through knocking doors who attended that church and we are now teaching. Then we had a mini cambio and I went and taught with Elder Keller. They have a young part member family who they are about to baptize and the mom was like, Elders I know a young man you need to teach he is sad, addicted to drugs and his father just died. He is a friend of my sons... I paused and said Hermana is his name Felipe and lives in the Santa Josefina! I knocked on his door yesterday and we are going to start teaching him. She just bawled like a baby and testified to her husband who is not a member that the Church is true. Also we ran into a man who had fallen in the hills I carried him home, as I carried him I found out he is a member just inactive because it was hard for him to go without his wife. It took an hour to get to his home, his wife was so thankful and you know we are about to start teaching her too! He told me as I was carrying him that he had been having difficult times and wanted the Lord to let him know if he needed to go back to church or not.. I was like dude here is a big white gringo as your sign! lol We did have one rough day where I got rocks thrown at me by the 19 and 20 year old flaites... punks I went up to confront them and to teach them and my pansy comp didn't come he walked away and left me! Don't worry the Lord took care of me but it was a test of my patience. Then the day that we were supposed to teach Felipe he wasn't home! I was like dang it!!!! why, but as we were walking home that night through the fog I had a prompting to go talk to a group of flaites way off in a soccer field- dirt lol.. I was like are you serous I'm white and the fliates here hate me! but I gave in and walked over there, my comp said he would wait for me.. pansy lol.. but as I got closer to the group I realized that Felipe was there.. I got him to come with me, how I don't know and we are going on Friday to teach him! The Lord truly uses us, all we have to do is be ready to act! I am loving the mission right now, maybe not my comp or the area, but the Lord loves me and I know it. oooh we played soccer today!! So fun yeah I'm about to get into that sport, its awesome! I love you all family and I'm sorry this email is so weird but I'm basically out of time but hey be happy, life is simple and the Gospel is too. Just love its simple..
Love Elder Ward
PS there was another miracle! German and Karen our new converts were visiting their parents in Conce right... and the assistants were driving through to another sector, but were prompted to knock on a door so they did it..whose door! The family of Karen!The assistants got her brothers believing in God and her mom with a baptismal date! yeah the Church is true..
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