That is way cool that you guys get
to feed the missionaries. That sounds like a crazy long waiting list. Ha-ha the
moms will love the pictures.
This week I do get a new companion. I
am the only one in my district that is staying. In my zone only Elder Hogan, Elder
Anderson and Elder Garcia are staying (they were in my district in the
beginning). The rest got switched. Today at 2:00 we find out who are our new
companions. The six weeks did go by crazy fast, feels like I just met Elder Rolon
and now he is on his way back to Jalapas Vera Cruz, Mexico.
This last week I have noticed that
when I miss a day of studying Spanish, like on Monday when we had the meeting,
the rest of the day people struggle to understand me. And when I do study, while I’m talking with
the people I don’t feel like I speak any differently or am more understandable
but the people are able to understand with ease. Shows the power of the gift of tongues and
how the spirit doesn’t work as hard to help the people understand what I’m saying
when I don’t do my part.
We had a lesson this last week with
an investigator named Nicha and she had a couple Christian buddies over and we
were sharing about the pre-earth life and they really liked the lesson and said
things like wow I have never heard that before, that is so cool, when we were
telling about how we lived with God before and how he knows us. It adds more to
my testimony of our knowledge of the fullness of the gospel.
This last week I went with my zone
leader to the area of some sisters in my zone to help with some interviews and
on the way we helped this guy jam pack his little truck full of furniture. It
was cool how it all just seemed to fit; the final product looked very Mexican ha-ha.
On Thursday we showed the video of Meet
the Mormons at the church and had people come to see. We were able to get our
investigator Nicha to go and her Christian buddy dropped her off at the church
and we were able to get him to stay for a bit too. The investigator, Nicha,
told us that we have the power to convince people because in the beginning the
buddy didn’t want to stay. Before the video, we had lesson with Nicha and she
told us that she was going to return to her congregation in the Christian
church. We explained to her the importance of the sacrament and taking it every
week (her church only does so every month) and why we took it, and she ended up
saying that she would come with us for sacrament meeting every week then go to
her congregation after. This last week she came for the first hour of sacrament
meeting and what was cool was that we had forgotten to say anything about
picking her up and giving her a ride to the church and she was planning on
taking a bus to get there on her own (she didn’t have to because we showed up
with a ride). It was cool to see that she had the desire to take the
sacrament.
On Friday I helped this investigator
named Oscar with his English homework and because of the help he committed to
go to church on Sunday and showed up too. Also I was able to do an interview
for this guy in the area of the zone leaders named Axel. All went well and he
was way prepared but the president of our mission wants us to wait another Sunday
before we baptize him.
This next week we are going to have
stake conference.
Love Elder Blanchard
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