Seeing the fruits of our labors

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 Hola Hola a todos!!


This last week has been full of miracles and incredible experiences. It's really crazy to see how as we focus on our obedience with exactness, the blessings are just pouring out on top of us.

Last transfer we found a whole bunch of people that were progressing really well and then almost all of them hit a wall and it's been really hard to help them over the wall. Because of it we had been spe ding all our efforts and energy on trying to break down this wall, but this week we decided to let a lot of those people have some space as we found 10 new people that have promising potential.

Two of these people came to us as someone had reached out for a blessing of health. Some elders a few areas over had a baptism Saturday and their dad had been in the hospital and kept asking the elders to help out. Well when they got home from the hospital they live din our area! An answer to prayers to help us find good people to teach. It was so cool to be able to use my priesthood power and give this father a blessing of health and in Spanish. The growth I've seen in the language over that 2ish months I've been here is crazy.

Another really cool person we met was on our way to pick up our friend Jhojan for his baptism on Saturday. We were running late and rushing to pick him up and back to the chapel in time and right as we were about to knock his door, his neighbor across the street yelled to us "buenos días elderes" so we turned and made some small talk. She started balling so we went over to try and help her out. We were already running late, but the spirit confirmed to me that we needed to be here when she walked out of her house to comfort her and help her. I offered to say a pray with her right there and she was feeling much better afterwards. Turns out she's not a member and had been taught by the missionaries for a long time in Argentina. These are just two of the many awesome experiences of finding God's children that are ready to hear our message.

Also Jhojan got baptized! I loved teaching Jhojan and seeing his big bright smile as he came out of the water. It was a great reminder to me of why I'm here going through the hard times and struggles because in the end when they take the steps to Baptism it makes it all worth it. And he's going to receive the Priesthood next week which he's so excited for!.

I hope you all are doing amazing! I love the updates! And have an awesome week!

Con cariño,
Elder Holdstock 






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