Find Them

This week, our coolest experience was while were were just walking around finding. We had kind of gotten punted for most of the day and it was around 5:00. We still had 4 hours to work and we really had nowhere to go. We were right in the middle of our area and we didn't know where we should go. Elder Sanford decided that we should walk out to a member that we hadn't visited yet that week. We walked way out to his house and he wasn't home. We were both kind of wondering why we had walked all the way out there. Then we saw this little group of kids messing around in the dirt. Elder Sanford has a couple of little magic tricks that we do to the kids. We sat and did magic for them and after a while, their mom was out watching. She invited us to sit in their front yard and do the tricks.

We starting talking to her, but neither of us felt like we should start a lesson. It was super weird. Usually we would just try to quickly transfer to a quick L1 and get a return appointment. But, after talking to this lady for a second, we learned that she had a 13 year old kid who had recently passed away from dengue fever. L1 (restoration) was definitely not what she needed to hear. It was kind of late at this point, so we quickly bore our testimonies about eternal families and told her that we would come back. We went back and she invited us inside with her sister and 2 kids. It was awesome. 

We learned a lot from this experience about how God really is preparing people to hear this amazing message. If we didn't get punted to start the day, we wouldn't have been anywhere near that part of our area. Then if we didn't do some magic with some of the kids, we would have left too early. And if we had just started a lesson, she probably would not have invited us back. The Spirit is awesome and it really leads us to be part of Gods perfect plan for others.

This week we also had the last zone conference with President Bangal. It was kind of sad. In another 2 weeks, we have our new President coming. It will be fun to meet him. We also just passed another transfer. I honestly don't know how that happened. It is crazy. But, nothing really changed at all. No one from our district transferred and only 1 missionary from our zone transferred. So, I will officially hit my year mark with only American companions which is kind of crazy. That'll about do it for the week. I love you all and send lots of prayers your way. 

-Elder Thomas

-Our path flooded

-future missionary

-Bawal Umihi dito = forbidden to pee here