Dear Family,
Alright a pretty amazing things happened to Elder Hansen and I, We were working
and we had plans to contact people, knock on doors, etc... So we started
working and talking with people, and i got the feeling to go down a road, and
then to just keep following it. We had never gone so far in this direction, and
we entered into a road with open fields around it, the we got to the Street
91(here the streets are all numbers). We turned because we had to and I felt to
turn right and we went and then we knocked on the first house that we saw. We
see a house finally, and we go up to it to knock. There was a Mother (65 years
old ish) and he younger son outside of the house. We started talking to them,
and there dog that was tied up started to bark, so i went and played with it
for a couple seconds and then I look to the back yard and saw Rottweiler
puppies. I said, " how cute, rottweiler puppies" and the son leaned over
and was about to say something as the Mom Rottweiler came around to corner off
its chain. They started Freaking out!!! haha He grabbed a broom, and told us to
get into the house. We heard him yelling at the dog so that it would go back to
the backyard, as if it was a murderer type dog... haha Then he calld a 19 year
old little girl Camilia to come and chain the dog back up, because the dog only
likes her. hahah it was funny. but back to the spiritual part, after all this
we start talking with the them and the mother said that her husband had lung
cancer and just got his lung taken out in surgery. Right after she said that,
my Companion fastly said, " we can give him a blessing like Christ gave to
the people." She got emotion and said she would ask her husband, he said
he would like that a lot. So we gave him a Priesthood Blessing from God, and
now hes doing a lot better! They said they will go to church when he gets
feeling better.
This was an answer to my
prayers, when i was asking how to become a worthy priesthood holder who can
follow and notice the promptings of the Spirit. Yeah the Spirit guided us to
find this man to give him a blessing, i know that we can hear and follow the
Spirit, we just have to Listen and act on what we hear. After we act, we will
know if it was a prompting from the Holy Ghost.
Yeah we were
walking in the street right after this amazing experience and we were heading
back to the house to get home in time, and my companion and a huge craving for
Toddy(its like chips ahoy or chocolate chip cookies) So we were on the way home
and the Wind picked up and was super super strong, it was throwing dirt all
over the place! Then a down pouring of Rain came.... and we got soaked!! haha
It was a super wind slash rain storm. I asked my companion," Do you sill
want Toddy?" and he said "Yup!" haha so we took like 5 mintues
extra to go and get him his cookies. We got to the house and we notice we had
two missed calls, I call the number back and its our Investigator Mailén, she
was asking if we were okay because apparently this storm was doing some major
damage. It ripped the roofs off houses, threw down power lines, and knock over
hugest trees or twisted huge branches and ripped them off..... hahah and we were
in the street for all of that and we had no idea it was such a bad storm...
just two Missionaries who wanted Cookies.... hahaha The Savior is always
protecting us!(dont worry Mom!)
Also we came to find out that we are friends
with all the dangerous people! haha its kinds of funny, one of the guys we know
is a always on drugs. the first day we met him he yelled at us about some guy
named Smith( Joseph Smith) and then the next time he was still drugged and
apologized for what he had done. We have always found him on drugs, so we can talk
all that much with him, but He say that we are his friend and hes got our back
and he showed us a gun he has hidden under his shirt. like i said before dont
freak out mom(or anyone else), I tell you these things so that you know that
the Lord is protecting us so much! and we are safe. even though we are friends
with all the theifs. haha
In the Week we found a
two less active sisters, Debura with 3 kids and Cintia with 4 kids, and the all
the kids need to be baptized! all but 2 of the kids showed up at church with
Debura and loved it! I so hope that i stay in this area to see them enter the
Waters of Baptism! Also we had 2 others investigators show up and it was a
miracle!!! We had 5 Investigators in the church!
WHAT AN AMAZING WEEK!!!!
The Lord is protecting us
always, and he is there! I love you all!
Con Amor,
Elder Ethan C. Durocher!
