Alrighty the highlight of this week was definitely our mission conference with Elder Godoy and Elder Walker. It was supposed to be a mission conference with Elder Stevensen of the quorum of the 12, but he had an emergency reassignment and so the aforementioned two members of the 70 came. It was a spiritual feast to say the least!
Elder Godoy was so incredibly powerful as he spoke. He was very interactive, asking us lots of questions and adapting to our answers. He actually gave our mission a palo (chastisement,) when he asked us to describe our mission with one word, one hermana said that we are a mission that baptizes, to which he responded, "Oh no, no you are not. This is a great mission, and I can see that it is a converted mission. Y'all are very much like Christ, but 40-50 baptisms a month is very little. This is the land of the Nephites! The land of the Lamanites! You can and need to do better."
It sounds tuff on paper, but at that moment the Spirit descended over us, and the room filled with energy. He was right! I wanted to shout amen, hallelujah as he said it 🤣
Anyways, it was also cool to see the whole mission again. I hugged my cousin again 😎 always a highlight.
My Stake had a Stake conference with Elder Godoy the next day, and we had to meet in a gymnasium. There were so many people! It felt like I was in Utah, there were hundreds. The most beautiful Spanish choir was singing, and we had Ana, Coni, and the Cardenas family come with us on the ward bus. He spoke of not living on the borrowed light of other's testimonies, as the moon does from the sun (and, coincidently, as terestial souls do from celestial souls.) We absolutely loved it, our friends were astonished at how much love they felt from Elder Godoy.
Alright, thats enough about Elder Godoy😅 other highlights of the week:
- my hand got kissed by a prostitute
- House blessings🥰 I love feeling light enter a place like a home.
- I had the best casuala of my mission with the Zamudio family
- The local Venezuelan restaurant gave us missionaries a free 5- person chorrillana #handofthelord
- first family home evening of the Gaete family, where we watched Lehi's vision (we had to tell the little girls it was like Stranger things,) and a knelt down family prayer
- We went to Frutillar
- Coni is going to get baptized: so Coni we have taught for a few weeks now, she's awesome. She got to know the church through her college friend, who was a return missionary. She went to the conference with Elder Godoy, where he talked about the restauración of the church and not doubting our faith, and was set up so perfectly by the Lord. Anyways, we had a powerful lesson with her, where we invited her to be baptized. She started crying and said, "I think the Spirit is talking to me right now. I feel good, I want to do it." And then, her mom started YELLING, "No, don't force her to be baptized! Let her choose!" To which we were pretty confused, but long story short, Coni denied her mom, prayed about a date, and will get baptized in May. Jesus: 1 Ana: 0
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