Well it would be safe to say that this
has been one of the best, most testimony-building weeks of my mission, full of
small miracles and big ones. I am just so thankful to the Lord for all
the wonderful things He does for us. My testimony of the power of fasting and
prayer has been strengthened soooo much. I really am just so happy to have seen
the hand of the Lord work in our area this week.
We have a man that we have
been working with for a while. His name is Rene and he has been progressing really well. We had started our fast, and asked Heavenly Father to help us with them. We really want to help him get baptized and reactivate his (common law) wife. We had a really
good lesson with them on Saturday but at the end of the lesson she said that she didn’t want to get married anymore. (She had wanted to for 10 years
and he never wanted to, but now HE wants to and SHE doesn’t.) We told them
to pray that night as a family and that Heavenly Father would help
them decide.
Then yesterday at church, they both came and during the testimony
meeting she had tears in her eyes and at the end, they told us that they are
going to make the decision to get married. So now we're preparing everything for
the wedding and the baptism! We are so happy because we have really seen firsthand
the changes that they have been making to come closer to God and it is just so
wonderful to see the happiness coming into their lives.
Their son was baptized
about a week ago so I think that has helped them feel the spirit and keep
progressing. There were a lot of other awesome little things that happened too. I’m growing to really love my companion, and we are
getting along and working together great. We had a good week of work with the
members and yesterday we had a ward council to plan an activity and the ward is
really excited to help and participate. I feel like this will be something that
will help activate the ward a lot and get them working with us more.
For the
meantime, we are just going to keep doing what the Lord expects of us! My companion and I are getting along great and I think we are going to finish this time
together being one another’s favorite companion. I really
can’t believe that I’m about to have my last birthday in the mission and that I’m
going to be 20!! So crazy! I definitely don’t feel that old! Here are some pictures. A
guy we found gave us cool hats so we took some "selfies" (yes, that word has reached El Salvador too) and I had a crazy cool
wildlife encounter!
Love, Elder Hoy
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