Wow what a crazy week really it has been such a great week! So many memories made! Eric I will try and take you advise that you gave to my mom! But first really quick! I have a stomach infection.. stupid food here! But I am taking a pill and it is helping a lot!! It is nice to not feel sick 24/7!! I fell in the mud and it was everywhere! Horrible! This week we decided to start running in the mornings and it is so nice!! I love to run and I never knew it! It is so much fun! and I feel so much better after! We have a great noche de hogar! (FHE) we made tacos and they died over them! haha they loved them! It has been super cold! Like 40 degrees! I know, I know that that is nothing right now for all you guys! But it has been like 90-100 everyday so for me right now it is cold! Bueno now I will go into more detail about 2 amazing experiences that we had this week!
1st- we have been working with a menos activo that has 18 years se llama Carlos! He is great he hasn't been going to church for like 2 years so pretty inactivo! We have been working really hard with him because the obispo asked us to focus a lot on helping him! He has been progressing really well he has had a problem with the word of wisdom and stopped drinking!! And his goal this week was to wear a white shirt and tie to church! Well not only that happen he was able to bless the sacrament!!! It was so good during the sacrament I almost started crying! Really it was so great! He is amazing and has ganas to serve a mission!!! It is so amazing really! He knows everything about the gospel.. more them me!! Haha and he has been coming with us on our visits! It is so great! I am so happy something that our obispo told us yesterday in our meeting with him is that he is really proud of all the work that we are doing to activate this ward! He said you know our ward doesn't have a lot of bautisms right now but he is grateful that we have been working really hard with the menos activos because we have reactivated members that haven't been coming to church for years! It is really great!
2nd- We really did have a miracle this week!!! Okay the obispo was coming with us on our visit to an invest. and when we got to his house he was talking to anther man on his porch.. so we waited for a minute and when they were done he started to walk away we started talking with our invest. and obispo said to the man that was walking away hola hermao como esta?? And he turned around and said Martin how are you (Martin is the name of our obispo) and it turns out that he was a menos activo so we asked him to join us in the lesson! (se llama Daniel) it was so great the whole time he listened so well and answered all of our questions and read and explained parts of the lesson bueno you all need to know that he has been inactive for like 5 years.. bueno at the end of the lesson we asked him to say the prayer.. and it was beautiful! You have no idea!! He asked for forgiveness because he hasn't been coming to church he asked for strength to move forward. He prayed for his friend! He prayed that he would want to go to church that he would have the deseos a leer and to pray! (oh my i am sorry that some of this is in Spanish It is so hard to write well in English!!) (to read- leer) after the prayer he asked us for a chapter to read in the Book of Mormon and then he asked obispo for a blessing! It was so great! After we asked him if he could pass by his friends house our invest. Ideneo on Sunday morning for church and he said he would! So yesterday we passed by his house in the and his mom said that he had left at 7:30 to pass by his friend house for church.. (church starts at 9) and Mormon standard time here is horrible!!!!!!!! Usually we start around 9:45!! Anyways so we headed to his friends house to make sure that he was headed to church with Daniel and he said that something had some up so he couldn't come... siempre!!! But when we got to church the obispo said that Daniel was was at the church at 8:20 waiting to go in!! Really it was so great! We had a lesson with him yesterday and he read what we asked him to read and then he told us that he wants to work to go to the temple with his brother!! Really!! We have another lesson with him this week and then he is also going to come on visits with us!! It has been amazing! The lord prepares people and everything falls into place when it needs to! he is great and I know that he is going to be an amazing priesthood leader in this ward!!
Well this coming Sunday we have tranfers!! Crazy! So I have no idea where I will be! Or who I will be with! Usually the junior comp stays and the senior comp gets transferred, but I have no idea what the Lord has in store for me!! I am so excited! All of our leaders say that I will be training.. I am scared to death that it will happen but if it does I have faith that the Lord will bless me with the strength to do so!! Sorry I don't have pictures this week!! I actually have a ton taken this week but the computer that I am on won't let me!! Sorry!! This week has been a great one! Really I am so blessed to be here - yes it is really hard but I wouldn't change it for the world I love serving! I love being a tool in the Lord's hand! I love seeing people change there life's for the better! I REALLY DO LOVE IT HERE!! Thank you all for the loving letters that I get. I am so sorry that I can't personally write you all back! I hope that Morgan is doing well - send her my love all the way from Argentina! And tell her I will work extra hard just for her! Thank you all for everything! Remember that this work is for us all! And always be willing to share!! Talk to you next week! I don't know if i will get to write a lot next week because of transfers but we will see!
Hermana Griffiths!!!:)
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