Sorry i didn´t give you much time to write me back anyone but we´re having prep day today because we´re going to have meetings all week with president to do transfers for next week. Sounds like your both loving Asia mom and dad. Take a lot of pics for me. Mom you´ll be happy to hear about this this story...
So we went to our correlation meeting with our ward mission leader on thursday last week and he asked us to go visit Nuria, the one who has cancer and is on her last stretch, and her family. The next day, we called her husband Enrique and he told us to come over as soon as we could. A couple hours later we went with the other Elders to share a quick message. We sat and talked for a little bit and Nuria was there just cracking jokes with Enrique and sharing the huge love that she has for everyone. I was super surprised how good she was looking and how full of life she still was. The doctors had already sent her home because they cant do anything else for her and they gave her about a week to live. We spent the next 20 minutes just talking and having a good time. Then we said a prayer and starting sharing our message about Jesus Christ and how he has suffered and felt all of our pains and sicknesses. Nuria kept sharing her testimony about how she knew that was true and then said, "There was a talk given in the last general conference that really hit me and was perfect just for me. It was from the 2nd counselor in the relief society. I loved the talk so much that I´ve gone back and listened to it a couple more times". I haven´t told very many people about you, Mom, just because i´m not one to draw attention to myself but I just smiled as she said it and all the other Elders were just looking at me laughing to themselves. Elder Ríos turned to her and said, "what a coincidence, because that´s Elder Reeves mom!" She kept talking for a second not really realizing what Elder Ríos said and then stopped and said, "WHAT??" Haha it was pretty funny. But at the same time it was a really sweet experience to be able to connect with Nuria and bare testimony of God´s plan for us. The Spirit was super strong and it was a huge blessing to help Enrique and Nuria feel more of God´s love for them.Other than that, this last weekend was a big learning experience about patience and faith. The Lord blessed us so much to be able to hit the standards of excellence in our mission again but the people that we need progressing haven´t been progressing like we´d want them to. Nallely who is supposed to get baptized this weekend didn´t come to church yesterday and after talking to her on the phone she said that she hadn´t been feeling well. We had another visit set up with her later on last night and we confirmed with her about an hour before but then she didn´t show up. After that she hasn´t answered our phone calls. It caught us way off gaurd because she always does what we ask her to do and she never fires us. We´re afraid because she works in Hospitalet during the whole week and we wont be able to teach her the rest of the commandments until saturday, the day of her baptism. This could be 2 weeks in a row that our baptisms have fallen through. We´re praying that some miracle happens and that we´ll be able to meet with her before then and finish preparing her for baptism. We had 7 people that came to stake conference but not one of our fechas came to church. It was a tough day yesterday overall but it just amazes me how the Lord keeps teaching me to trust in Him. I know He wants us to baptize and I know we will. It´s just a little stressful when we´re at the end of the year and we need to hit our goal of 600. I´m praying a lot and I´m excited to see what Heavenly Father has in store for us and i´m hoping that it comes quick! Satan is working hard to stop our investigators from progressing, but he´s not going to win.
Keep praying for our investigators, fam, we need them all. Thanks for being the best fam bam in the world
Elder Reeves
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