This week was crazy. We sort of just were better at all of the things this week, and it was really cool. I`m not sure how it happened, but we felt really good about the work we accomplished this week, and we feel like God is helping us a lot.
My companion had been struggling a little bit with being shy, and not wanting to talk to people very much. I found a talk for him called "The fourth missionary" that really changed my mission when I read it. It talks about putting everything you have into your work, and focusing 100% on serving the people and serving God. I`m not sure if it was from the talk or just from the Spirit, but after reading it he all the sudden wanted to talk with everyone! And he did. He talked to everyone he could, in the street, in their houses, in the tienda, everyone! And he talked so much that he lost his voice and couldn`t talk anymore at the end of the day. It was really funny, but it was also really awesome to see him change so drastically and gain a desire that he really didn`t have before. Talking is what missionaries do, and so I`m really happy that he`s learning to meet people and invite every one to change their life.
This week a bunch of our friends came to church, including a boy named Lester that said that he "didn`t like church" because it was boring and he wasn`t interested. At least that`s what he said going in. But then when it ended he was practically jumping up and down with excitement about all the things he got to learn and the other kids he met and how excited he was to be able to come back next week. It was great! His mom Silvia really wants to come to church too, but it`s hard for her because she works every Sunday selling fish. We`re working on a way to help her with that. They`re a really great family though.
We also met a miracle this week. We met this woman named Nanci, who went to church for the second time on Sunday before we met her. She is dating a member of the church who wasn`t going anymore until he got this really strong feeling that he needed to start going to church again. So they both started going. We met them last Sunday, and Nanci now wants to be baptized as soon as possible, and they both want to get married. We are going to help them a ton, and it`s very possible that they will get married this Saturday and baptized this Sunday. If not, it would probably be until the next week, and I might not be here anymore to see it because changes are coming up soon. But either way, they are super cool, and they have a huge desire to do what God wants them to do. We are really excited to be helping them out.
The email next week will probably be full of tons of crazy changes, and my whole life is probably going to be different by the time I write again. But we`ll just have to see.
Love you guys!
-Elder Cloward
Ruins of an ancient Catholic cathedral
A really pretty market in Antigua
A guy we saw fixing his bus while going full speed on the freeway. I can`t really say stuff like that is uncommon here.
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