This week has been a pretty fun one, jam packed with miracles. On Monday, we had dinner with a Venezuelan family (there's quite a few of them here) and holy smokes, that woman can cook. We had arrepas, this soup, and a ton of other stuff and I thought I was going to die because I ate so much.
Tuesday was full of meetings. First, we had mid-trainers meeting at the mission home, which is pretty much where they see how the training is going, then they separate the trainers from the trainees. It was an interesting one this time. Then directly after that we had another meeting in Liberty, which was a Priesthood leadership meeting. It was a really cool experience. It was also fun to see my trainers and some former companions there, and just some people that I've grown close to.
After that meeting, we had a total miracle. We had a return appointment with a lady named Norma, from Mexico. As we were walking up to the door (the screen door was open), everyone got up from the table and went and hid throughout the house. We obviously knew that they were home, so we knocked a couple times, until a lady named Elizabeth came and answered. She said she was visiting from Orlando, FL, which is pretty much where Elder Alexander is from. We got talking to her and she invited us in. Everyone else was still hiding, but we taught her the Restoration and she felt something during the First Vision. At the end, she had told us that she had been feeling distant from God lately (long story) and she was so thankful. She is going back to Florida in about a week, but it was such a miracle.
We had to run literally everyone [all the elders on P Day] across town to get some medicine today. After that, we stayed in the area and found a lady named Calandra, who was definitely the reason why we had to run all the way across town. She was super prepared and has had some pretty hard stuff happen in her life recently.
Another miracle was Thursday night. We had an appointment fall through, so we stayed in the area and knocked on some apartments. As we were getting to the last apartment building, we saw a big man come out of his apartment from the 2nd floor, bend over to see us through the glass door, and then tell the people in his apartment something. We walked into the building and shook his hand and they just let us in immediately. It was weird because that never happens. As we got talking, we learned that 2 months ago they had moved here from Honduras and were members! They had to leave pretty much everything behind, like scriptures and stuff, and they had no idea where the Church was. There were 2 families living in this apartment, and they were both so happy to finally find us and that we spoke Spanish haha. Another church has helped them a ton here and it seems like they had been going there for a little bit, but they were so thankful they found the missionaries.
There were so many miracles this week it was ridiculous. Lil things. Like on Saturday there was a huge storm coming, and it was about 8:55 pm. We work until 9, but imma be honest it was tempting to head in, it was about to get really bad. But, we were in the hood of the hood and had to make the best of it. We decided to go try a member. When we got there, there were 2 guys chillin in their car. We knocked on their window and ended up talking a bit teaching them like a 5 minute ‘Resto’ [Restoration lesson] and they were interested and it went really well. (One of them was from Durango by the way, primo.) At about 9:05 we went to get in the car and literally the second I opened my door, on the other side of the street it just started to POUR rain. We got in the car and that second, it started raining where we were. We didn't get a single drop on us and it was supposed to come a little earlier. It was kinda cool.
I got to go on 2 exchanges this week. One of them was with Elder Sickler, who I lived with when I served in Santa Fe. The other was with Elder Hamby. Both of them were pretty fun. The one with Elder Hamby ended with a baptismal interview I gave to 2 of the people they are teaching.
A man named Gilberto we are teaching is on date for July 21st. He is so humble and we hope he continues to progress. We are also working with a member referral named Ana, who just moved here from Guatemala a little bit ago and has been coming to church with a sister in the ward. Things are going pretty well!
Speaking of Santa Fe, I got to see the Elders Quorum President and the Bishop on Saturday because there was a wedding at our church building that they were officiating. The bride and groom were over an hour late and we had to go, but we were invited because there was gonna be some non-members that lived in our area that were gonna come, but that didn’t happen.
That's about it this week. I love you and thank you for everything!
Elder Ogden
Cute puppy I saw
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