Elder Amoni Ka'ili Mission Journey

OH MAN OH MAN WHAT A WEEK!

We had transfers and I received my new companion, Elder Hagues! Hes from San Diego and is literally such a baller missionary! Hes been out for 9 months and already got called to be a Zone Leader! Haha me and him are the youngest Zone Leader companionship but you already know we are putting in work! But honestly this past week, Me and Elder Hagues have been able to see so many miracles in our area. We have honestly just been trying to work our hardest and be the best examples we can be to our zone. It definitely is a different attitude with Elder Hagues then it has been with my other companions and I love it! We are honestly motivated for the love of the people in our area and the love we have for our missionaries that we are over.

These past couple days have literally been packed with meeting and planning but also with so many miracles! One of the things that I love most about Elder Hagues is that he just wants to work but also wants to have fun at the same time. Throughout the days when we would get done either with planning for something or a meeting and we would have an hr or so we would go as hard as we can and go find the elect. Honestly on Friday and Saturday we just skipped dinner because we wanted more time to find. Its gotten to the point of my mission where I have realized how important time is, this is the lords time and not mine and I have seen the blessings of striving to be a more diligent missionary. A couple of those blessings were named Ray, who we found on Friday, Henry, who we found on Saturday, and Estaban and Jose that we found yesterday! These guys were all so prepared by the hand of the lord to receive our message! It was insane to see! I have realized that the more obedient I am and the more diligent I am the more the Lord is going to trust me with those that he has prepared! It feels so good to meet someone and just feel that this is the exact person that you were suppose to find today. All the prayers during finding, all the doors that you knock in the heat, is all worth it once you find that one that has been searching for the truth! I have been able to see that first hand these past couple of days and it has been awesome!

Yesterday we were able to get Itzayana and Leti to church! They are so prepared for their baptism on the 31st and I honestly am so excited for them! Me and Elder Hagues prayed and thought hard about how we can get them more fellowship and we figured out that we need to get one of the young women to come with us to their house on saturday to invite Itzi the daughter to church with us. it honestly could have not gone any better. We went over there and Adriana the young women bore her testimony of young women's and mutual and it really got Itzayana pumped to come to church! They exchanged facebook's and it was awesome! Then yesterday at church they sat by each other and then Adriana took over from there and took her to class with all the other young women while, leti her mom was taken by some other members to her class! It literally was perfect!

Also yesterday we had Erick come to church as well! Erick has a hard situation with his life but has been able to see the gospel help him in many ways. Yesterday we had one of the most spiritually lit lessons I have ever been in! We had a lesson at one of the members houses, Hermano Pepe's and also had Presidente Moreno come as well! We had such a strong and bold lesson about covenants that led to baptism! The testimonies of Presidente moreno and Hermano Pepe brought the spirit so strong and at the end of the lesson we invited him to pray about baptism, and we honestly are probably going to baptize him this Saturday before he goes back to mexico! It seriously is a miracle!

Lol some funny things also happened this week! We blessed a dog... haha let me explain so on friday we get a call from the relief society president in our branch and she asks us to come over and give a blessing. So we paused everything we were doing and went over. haha when we got there she was practicing her flauta and so we sat there and she played it for like 20 min to show us how good she was haha me and elder hagues literally almost knocked out cold on her couch it was so soothing lol. But then after she is done she starts explaining about how she remembers hearing a story about president snow giving a blessing to an oxen and then proceeded to ask us to give a blessing to this dog which was actually another members. So she calls out to this little girl who brings the dog and we are all just like oh shoot what do we do and then we were just like ok hold the dog and we blessed the dog. We told them it would be by their faith that the dog would be healed and the little girl was so happy. Then yesterday when we were at church they came up to us and said, "CHICO ESTA BIEN!" the dog got bit by a snake so it like couldn't walk anymore but now it was walking just fine! hahah it was crazy but also another testimony of the priesthood power and the faith that goes into those blessings! Haha might be the craziest thing I have done with the priesthood but it was a great experience!