Congrats jack on the wedding!! Sorry i couldnt be there. Hope everything went super well. Where´s the honeymoon at?? Thanks for the pics val.Well, it´s been a transfer since President called me in. Crazy. We just finished transfers... well kind of. We had 4 nuevos come in yesterday, another one today, and one more tomorrow. It´s been pretty wild. They sometimes come on different days like this because of visa problems. But they are such amazing new elders. No new sisters this transfer. And 3 more elders are still waiting for their visas. The mission is SUPER young right now and we lost a ton of experience from older missionaries who have gone home in the last 3 transfers. They´ve been big transfers with a lot of leaders going home. That´s why President received some revelation with us ayudantes as we were doing the changes for transfers. In our transfer meeting, we were doing all the changes in companionships and areas and something just wasnt clicking. After a couple of hours of switching things around, President sat in his chair and stared for a minute at the board and said, "what if we brought in a new ayudante and we had Elder Keeler being a travelling ayudante?" So we brought in another ayudante! His name is Elder Cerqueira from Portugal!! He´s amazing. He´s only been out about 10 months but is just so good. So Elder Keeler will be travelling around and helping some companionships for his last transfer. It was an incredible experience being in that transfer meeting. After that change everything else just fell into place.
We got fired a ton this last week, planned and unplanned visits were falling through everywhere, and we were at a point where we had run out of back up plans. We tried to stay diligent and to keep contacting as we were making our way to pass by some other people. We were dead tired and had talked to so many people that day but we knew the Lord would bless us for staying diligent. As we were walking by a metro stop, out walked what looked to us like a little family, a man, woman, and little girl. As they came out of the metro stop, they were smiling and just looked golden. Walking up to them, we asked them if they were a family - come to find out that it was just 2 friends and the daughter of the lady. Her name is Rosmari from Bolivia and he is José from Mexico. We talked to them for a little bit and testified of the restored gospel. Rosmari seemed super interested but José was a little held back. We then invited them to come to church with us the following day and we promised them they would feel a different spirit there and that they would receive answers. They told us they would come and gave us their numbers. The next day, we were waiting at the door of the church and they still didn´t arrive. It wasn´t too much of a surprise because a ton of people say they´ll come and end up not coming. Church was about to start and we figured we give them a call and see if they were coming. Rosmari picked up her phone and said, "i´m just getting my daughter ready! We´ll be there in about 10 minutes." 10 minutes passed by and still nobody. After about 20 minutes and being maybe too persistant, we called again and she told us she was on her way and just a couple minutes away. Then she showed up with her little 2 year old daughter, José, and José´s daughter who´s partly deaf. It was such a miracle. Both of them showed up and José brought his daughter! They stayed for all 3 hours and just loved it. José was asking us about baptism before he left church. We´re meeting with Rosmari tonight and hopefully José will be able to be done with work at that time and come too. It just increased my faith that God blesses us as we show our love for Him and His work through diligence.
Gotta go. Love you so much fam. Keep being awesome.
Elder Reeves
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