Week 58: July 4, 2017: Happy Independence Day!

Hey family!
So this week has been a little crazy because I swear that like all of the people we are working with are not in the country anymore. Both recent converts just went to the Dominican Republic and Mexico and neither knows when they will be back but they will be gone for at least a month. Our solid investigator went to the DR as well for a month and one of the less actives we starting working with just told us last night that she leaves for Ecuador this Thursday and doesn't know when she will be back. So that's throwing us off a little bit but we have faith it'll all work out!

Also, I don't know anything about politics but our branch president mentioned in passing that there may be some changes to immigration laws and we could possibly be losing like half of our members if the changes go through. So that's super sad. 

BUT we also saw tons of miracles this week too! 

We met up with the elders on Saturday night to start a special fast for our branch and for more direction in our area and then on Sunday the miracles started coming! We had been struggling with getting referrals from the members and then we all of a sudden got not 1... not 2... but 7 referrals from the members that want us to teach their friends! So we finally have a couple lessons lined up for this week that the members are going to come out with us to visit their friends. That was a huge miracle.
We also had dinner with our RS president this week and she came out to visit people with us after dinner for like 3 hours! It was incredible and we were able to have a great lesson with a less active and gain her trust a little bit more! The night did go a little unexpected though because we got a call while we were driving from a lady that we had never met before that said she needed help that night. When we got to her house, she told us she was actually a member and that she just moved here from Utah. Her emergency was just to change a tire so we all just went out to the parking lot and they taught her a lesson while I changed her tire haha (thanks for teaching me Dad! Its now the 2nd time I've had to do it on my mission). 

Those were just some cool things that happened this week. We are excited about this upcoming week and more good things to come! I love and miss you tons! Have a good week :)

Last picture with Sister Vest before she went home.

Aurora Cortez- one of the recent converts that just went to Mexico :(

Elder Fuller (the Car Czar)- he was cleaning out the mission

presidents car and decided to pose for us haha

It boosts our spirits to know we can at least send texts clearer

than some natives

There was a huge firework show at the VC last night! Too bad they

all started past curfew but from our apartment they sounded like they

were pretty haha