Good morning fam!
Thanks so much nieces and nephews! Did you make that picture just for me or was it some one else´s birthday and it just worked out that way? Haha either way i loved it. It just throws me off every time I see how big they´re getting.
I love my companion Elder Keeler. He´s an incredible missionary. He has so much love for the work, the missionaries, and especially for the people that we´re teaching. He´s got a fire that is just super contagious. He´s always looking for more opportunities to find the elect and to bring them the gospel. I´ve already learned a ton from him. He´s from Spring Texas that´s just right outside of Houston. He graduated in the same year as me, but instead of going to college he just went straight out onto the mission. He´ll be finishing up in October, so i´ll most likely be his last companion. Oh by the way mom and dad, Elder Keeler´s best friend that lives just 3 streets down from him back in Texas is Elder Stephenson who is serving in Riverside! I´m pretty positive i never met them but apparently they used to do everything together.It was Friday morning and Elder Keeler and I really felt strongly in our companionship study that we needed to look for more opportunities to serve. We prayed in every prayer that day for opportunities and we were constantly looking for them throughout the day. There wasn´t a huge change really on Friday, just a couple times being able to help people with their suitcases exiting out the metro or other little things - but we felt like we did everything we could that day to find those opportunities. Saturday morning as we were studying again, we got a phone call from out Elder´s quorum president, Tomás. He said, "Elders, there´s a lady that has been living in our piso for the last couple of months who needs help moving out to her new piso. Can you come and help us?" We went up there and met this lady, Cristi, who´s from Peru. She´s in the process of getting divorced and has a 3 year old son. When we arrived, she was SO grateful. We helped take all of her boxes and suitcases to her new piso and by the end of helping her, we had met her good friends, Joel and Neomí, that lived close by her new piso, and another couple, Mario and Alejandra, that live in her new one. We were able to teach Mario and Alejandra and we have another visit for this Friday. We´re hoping to be able to visit soon with Joel and Neomí to teach them the gospel. Just from the simple act of praying and searching for these opportunities to serve, the Lord blessed us with this HUGE miracle. All these people are so prepared and so open to receive the gospel. Pray for them! I know God answers prayers. I know He wants us to find those who are prepared for the gospel so that they too can receive these blessings.
We have another lady named Verónica that went to the baptism of her friend Julia 2 weeks ago in the Barcelona 1 ward with her husband Enrique. They loved it! They´re from Peru and also have a 3 year old son. We finally were able to meet with Verónica yesterday (Enrique was working) and we taught her about baptism. She accepted a date to be baptized on August 11!! We´re just hoping and praying that she and Enrique are married. We´re going to find out in our visit tomorrow. Pray for them!
There´s also another baptism of a girl in the ward named Evelyn. She´s been a member pretty much her whole life but, sadly, her register in the church system got lost or just never put in. So she´s getting baptized again hopefully this weekend! If not, then it will be next weekend. Pray for her and for her family, who a lot of them aren´t members, so that they may be open and receptive to the gospel.
This area is incredible and the Lord is just POURING out His blessings on us. I really have seen how exact obedience brings blessings. I´ve always strived to be exactly obedient but Elder Keeler and I are really focusing on doing every little thing right the best way we can so that we can have an assuraty (sorry not sure how thats spelled) that God will bless us and keep continue pouring His blessings upon us.
I love you all so much. Thanks for the pictures and for your support.
Elder Reeves
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