Following the counsel of the Seventy

The sun finally came out this weeek so you already know this week was super good! This week we had miracles on miracles! First off, because the weather has been so good we took the bikes from the other elders apartment and have been using them! Biking is so much better because we see and talk to so many more people. Everyone is out cooking carne too since the weather is good so we get some snacks on the road too! But the people here are so different than in Utah. Usually when you see missionaries riding their bikes around in Utah, you give them a good honk and a wave. Here the honk means "get out of the way before I hit you" and then we usually see a nice finger instead of a wave. Me and  Elder Englestead just laugh it off haha. But here comes the Miracle... So on Thursday we were riding around Toppennish heading to our next appointment and we passed this girl on the street. My comp and I both had the impression to go and talk to her, but sadly both of us didn't do it. Right as we passed her she yelled out to us "Hey what church are you guys from?" Oh man,  I squeezed the front and back tire brakes and flipped my bike around so quick, I almost hit Elder Englestead haha! She told us that she wants to come to church and wants to change her life. We taught her the first lesson and invited her to be baptized and she said yes! It was seriously such a huge miracle! This all took place on the side of the street as well and the spirit allowed us to still have a bomb lesson! Man I had to repent and say sorry for not following that prompting,  just because we had to bike around to the other side of town. It was definitly a testimony builder as I realized that everyone we see are put in our paths for a reason; and thats why it is so important to talk with everyone! Since that day me and my comp have been talking to everyone and finding a lot of success! But I think this miracle all traces back to District Council..

So we had District Council this past week on Thursday. We set a distrcit baptism goal! As we were all discussing trying to see what we wanted to set,  I kept getting the impression to set 5 for April! After a lot of discussion everyone finally agreed. A lot of the people in the district were scared because in the past we have been setting it for like 2 or 3. But when Elder Teixeira came, he told us if we want to have more baptisms we just need to work harder, pray and fast more. He also gave us a techniique we could use for finding more. He told us if we set our goals upon the past, or the norms of the mission, we will never improve. We need to have that fire when we set goals and then pray, study, and fast and we will see the miracles come. So after we all left the distrcit council some were hesitant, but I told my comp if we have to hit this district goal by ourselves we are going to do it! So we prayed before we went out and that's when we met Christina on the side of the road...Miracle #1. Then on Friday we talked with one of the people we have been working with so much and bang the Holy Ghost put her on date for April 13th(that's 2 people now that we have on for April 13th). Then on Saturday we met this family that just moved in and she wants to look put a date for baptism this month as well! So that's 3 now.  I don't say this to brag or anything but it showed me that when we really follow the counsel of the Seventy that comes and talks to us, and we don't have doubts or fears and we don't let the past goals distract us, we can see miracles! We just have to have that fire and do the things we know we need to and the Lord will direct us to the people he has prepared for us! So many more miracles have happened this week with the weather being good and me and my comp just going out and getting it, having no fear, and having faith that Heavenly Father is going to put people in our paths and it has been awesome!

I love you all and hope you all have a good week! General Conference is coming up too, so I hope you all have your popcorn ready! lol the rumors are going around! haha Los Amo!

Con Amor, 

Elder Ka'ili