Illegal Divisions

Amount of illegal Divisions I did this week: 1 😎

Nah, just kidding, my illegal divisions were approved by my District Leader and the higher ups, my zone leaders. But basically our District leader asked us to do divisions with hermanas who aren't our Sister Training Leaders. So here in Tres Arroyos with the other companionship of hermanas we did a little division for a day. 

Me and the Hermana Ramirez had a bomb day, we found 8 new people to teach and had a member named Sasha accompany us to walk around and had some bomb lessons with her. 

In our area my daughter, the Hermana Villagrán, also had a lot of success and all in all they were awesome divisions. 10/10 - would do divisions again. 

Divisions (They don't exist anyone) 

Speaking of Divisionsssss, we have officially decided divisions don't exist in Tres Arroyos. Basically in a city every missionary has a part of the city as their area to work, for example, before Tres Arroyos was divided in the middle and I only worked on one half of the city. 

But the Elders moved houses and when they asked how to handle the new division, I jokingly said, lets just not have divisions and everyone goes where they want. And he said, okay, all in favor? And everyone was in favor. 

So basically limits don't exist here starting today and we're about to have a really weird transfer. 

Tarjetas 

MILAGROSS! The miracle for this week is a little game me and my daughter Hermana Villagrán have been playing. We have little cards as missionaries that we pass out with our number and directions to the church. Hermana Villagrán had the idea to write little phrases of encouragement on the cards for people. 

I added that we could put questions on the cards and have people pick one randomly and we have had unlimited success with this game, it's unbelievable. Every single card a persons picks has been something they've needed. 

Story time! 

We stopped these two guys walking and asked them to pick a card. Guy number one, (lets call him James), quickly gives his cigarette the boot as we start talking to him, and pulls the card, "what aspects of your life to you want to better?" 

Well he says, "My bad habits." Then explains to us that he is actually a member of the church, but he hasn't been active in a long time. Then his friend pulls the card that says "You can do it." 

To say James started crying in the middle of the street would be a lie, but we did receive a very thankful message that night. And on Sunday he came to church then went to a Young Single Adults activity 😎

Less active members who renewed their covenants this week: 1 

Spiritual! 

I don't want to make this too long, but I will say I have seen greatly how through small and simple things we can be instruments in the lord's hands this week. Through this card game, many people have received answers from God specifically for them. 

We knocked a house looking for a member, but instead found a woman who moved here from Necochea and had already been talking with missionaries and had a Book of Mormon. We found a less active member in the middle of the street who gave us her direction and an invitation to pass by her house. 

When we put in a little effort, our best effort, we see the Lord magnifies it so much more than we ever could. 

Metas y planes (Goals & Plans)

There's not too much to say this week because we were too busy working like crazy. 

Goals

We had a very good week, we managed to beat a lot of our goals. We found 18 new people to teach, we had 13 lessons with the help of the members of the Branch and we put our friend on date to be baptized!

 Our friend Eduardo who used to be part of the Seventh-Day Adventists now has a hankering to be part of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints! He accepted a baptismal date for the 16th of May and is preparing a lot by praying and reading the Book of Mormon. He has started coming to church every week and he says that coming to church feels like coming home. 

Prayers Needed

This week one of our friends also was part of a car accident so lets get some prayers going for him. 

Not much to say this week, I just encourage everyone to focus on goals and plans. 

Spiritual Thought

I want to share a little small verse of Doctrine and Covenants section 38 that says, "but if ye are prepared ye shall not fear." 

I want to share this part because in my week I've seen how true it is. My companion and I decided this week that we were going to be ambitious and try to reach more people than we have before. So we made goals, then plans, then back up plans, and we followed through with faith that we could do it. 

For example, one day this week we decided we wanted to find 2 people in an hour, our plans weren't working so went to our back up plan. Then we stopped in the middle of the street and prayed. The next door we knocked we found someone. Then after that we stopped again in the middle of the street to pray and we found someone else. 

When people have faith that God will help them, they act. We put high goals and reached them because we trusted that the lord was preparing people for us to teach, and we made plans for how to find these people. 

But that's just my little endorsement for making goals and plans. I hope everyone has a super great week! 

Pizza?

Not Positive everyone is in a seat belt...