This week has been another fun week, more and more things are
constantly growing and changing in the work. And a very great miracle
happened over this last week. As a mission we held a special fast last
week for finding new people and this week we find out that we have
more than doubled our number of people found this week. even in our
area we once again found another small family who had never heard or
seen missionaries or the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
So they gladly accepted us and our message asking for us to come back.
And it's always by small and simple means that great things come to
pass. Our Heavenly Father truly blessed us as with the beginning of
this week was spent doing some service for non-members. In it we put
in a pool-liner, never did it before but we winged it. It was exciting
and very very heavy. I may need to start working out more! ;) anyhow
its been a blast doing it and we got to also help an older lady to
clear out a ton of weeds and dead grass. Once it was all loaded on the
truck we had to back into the lady's drive way to turn around, and a
random hobo came up and started to get angry at us thinking we where
dumping the weeds on her drive way. He got very hyped up about it and
it took us forever to calm him down.
Another miracle we have had was that we met a lady who was a less
active member, or so we though! We found out she has been going to
another ward because she didn't feel really loved in ours, she
attended twice and no one even noticed! So we bore testimony to her
and invited her to church, she cried after our message and shared how
,ugh she wanted to share the gospel with her family more, so she
invited us back to teach her grandkids!!
A final miracle is that we got a less active kid to finally meet a
man who was in the military as a recon sniper. He talked to him about
the requirements of joining and what's life like. He pretty much to
sum it up said he needed to clean up his life! The kid now sober told
us his dream on the way taking him home. He wants to change and be a
better person. He really want to forget the past but it seems to
always catch up to him. It was a very touching moment and he humbly
accepted the invitation to listen to the lessons and re learn what he
must do.
There are so many different things I cannot describe happening this
time. The spirit is so strong here and so glorious! The love and care
the missionaries receive from members is phenomenal. Their is truly
blessings pouring out now and soon to come. I love the missionary work
done here and do not want to ever leave. People here are amazing, they
have tender hearts and all that is wrong is they are lost! And now
more than ever the savior is there for us, he will reach out and help
us, he will pull us out of the darkest pits and bless us with the
greatest blessings imaginable! This time of life I could do forever. I
have to go now as we are going to a lesson once again.
-Elder Heckel
P.s. We get to finally meet the Vanliew boys, they are like my second
family. I'm so thankful for them and their service in South America.
I CALL THIS MY "FOOD STORAGE" :-)
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