we had a mission conference with bishop Davies from the presiding bishopric. it was awesome!! thats a plus about having a small mission. we can do WHATEVER WE WANT!!! hahah jokes. but we all got to go, opposed to the time elder eyering came and only like 10 missionaries got to go. ahahha. but bishop davies was awesome. it was a super spiritual meeting. he talked about church organization and how mission presidents are called. he said "YOU were called for your mission president, and your mission president was called for YOU." pretty crazy thought. he also told us the secret to working with the members. EVERY time we go into a members house, share a spiritual thought and build their faith in Christ. then they will see that you love Lord and they will too. he said its SO SIMPLE. its like the snake stick thing that no one wanted to look at because it was so easy. hahah. so we're doing that.
saturday was a GOOD DAY. we went to san german early to clean a recent converts house with hermana olmo (the G.O.A.T.). so this lady is Carmen, and shes like 80something, and she is a convert of hermana medina. we cleaned her house before and oh maaannn. its a work of art. so dirty. so we go over on saturday and we were yelling her name and knocking on the door and windows and she wasn't answering. she also wasn't answering her phone. so we asked the neighbors and no one had seen her. BUT hermana olmo knew that carmen said that she goes sometimes to see her friend down the street. so we asked her friend and she wasn't there. then we go to the store to look for her and she wasn't there. SHE WASN'T ANYWHERE TO BE FOUND!! by this point, we had been looking for her for like 45 minutes and had come to the conclusion that something had happened to her in the house and she had died or something. some of the neighbors had come over and i was GENUINELY NERVOUS. they were all debating if we should call the police or something. FINALLY, A CAR PULLS UP AND CARMEN GETS OUT. one of her friends had come and picked her up and they went shopping or something. CARMEN!!!! hahaha. it was SO STRESSFUL. WE THOUGHT SHE DIED. but luckily she didn't. we then cleaned her house for like 3 hours and made a little bit of a dent. at least now there arent AS MANY cockroaches. :-------) SERVICE!!!! MIRACLE!!!
also on saturday. we went to go see johanna, my convert. the last time we went, she told us that she hadn't gone to church in a little while. so that was sad. but that night, we invited her to read the book of mormon every day, and she would be able to finish it by the end of the year. and she was SO DOWN. so we went back to follow up, and SHES DONE IT!!! she's read a chapter a day for the last couple weeks. IT WAS SUCH A GOOD FEELING!!!! and she went to church the last two weeks. WOO!!!!!! thats what EVERYONE wants to see in their converts. SHES DOING IT!!!! so happy. MIRACLE!!!
we went to go see an old investigator, jorge perez, from san german. he lives SUPER far, so we went with a member in her car to go see him. hermana medina and i only taught him once before the hurricane but he was SO AWESOME. and i had just been thinking about him for a little while so i wanted to go see him. we went to his house and he wasn't home :'( but as we were driving away, i said "it would be a MIRACLE if he drove up right now in his car." and as i said that, HE DROVE UP IN HIS CAR!!!!!!!!!!! MIRACLE!!!!!!!!! we were able to talk to him and he was so happy to see us and we're gonna teach him this coming week. WOOO!!! this might sound like a lame story, but i was SOOOO EXCITED. JORGEEEEEE!!!!!
we're getting more missionaries this week!!! SHOUTOUT TO MALLORY MOODY MY BFF WHOS COMING. YEEEAAAAHHHHHHHH. #BYUTAKESPRSJ. and we're getting FOUR NEW MISSIONARIES in our zone!!!!!!!! so this means that we're not going to be covering mayaguez anymore. TBH im kind of relieved because its a little STRESSFUL covering four wards and now we can focus more on cabo rojo. woo!!! and cabo rojo is the BOMB. yesterday, we got FOUR DINNER INVITATIONS FOR THE WEEK. and we didn't even have to ask!! they just invited us!!!!! #blessssssed
we have some pretty solid investigators. we're still working on getting them to come to church. thats the main problem. that and that NO ONE ON THIS ISLAND IS MARRIED. but slowly but surely we're getting some good progressing investigators. dolores is AWESOME. we showed up for a lesson and she had done all the "extra study questions" in the back of the restoration folleto and was like "i was up very late doing this". and we taught her and she GOT IT. it was an awesome lesson.
we also have benji and jorma, two investigators (not married) but benji is SO DOWN to get baptized. before the hurricane, he was reading the book of mormon a TON and was all the way in jacob. and he went to church a TON of times. hes seriously awesome. but he cant get baptized until they get married, and jorma didn't really listen to the lessons before but she is listening to us now and we THINK we're making some progress.
a couple weeks ago i started reading the new testament and its sick!!!!!!!!!!!! ive never actually read it all the way through so i thought i would do it and its been super interesting to read about Christ's life and teachings. 10/10 would recommend.
also everyone should go read the talk "Kindness, charity, and love" by president monson! classic.
love to all!!!!!!!
hermana murphy
1. yay!!!
2. celebrating 8 months IM SO OLD
3. Anjomil!!! him and his grandma are recent converts in cabo rojo 1 and hes SO CUTE
4. WEEKLY RAINBOW
5. dont pay attention to our sunburns!!!! @mom :-)
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