Angels

This week was just a normal week. We are preparing for changes in the office. I am preparing to leave and I'm finishing up training Elder Gordon. But that's all boring stuff that you've been reading about for the last eight months. Yes I completed eight months here in the office four days ago. Feels like yesteday that it started. 

About two weeks ago Elder Hoagland, who is in the office with me, told me about a family that he had met in his area. It was a wife and a husband that came up to them and started talking to them. They were inebriated to say the least. They started talking to Elder Hoagland and Elder Tecun and telling them, through tears and obvious sorrow, that they were never going to make it to the Celestial Kingdom. They told them that they were trying to prepare to go to the temple to get sealed but that they would never make it. I imagine it had something to do the alcohol. They told Elder Hoagland that they lived in Paraíso but he couldn't get their names or where they lived. He told me that that family made him extremely sad and he just wanted to help him. About a week later we saw a family in our ward and we went and talked to them. We asked them for a reference of someone that we could visit. They told us they didn't have any investigators for us but they had some less actives. We said all right and they took us to their house. We arrive at the house and we taught them for probably 10-15 minutes about how to find new investigators in Chapter 9 of Preach My Gospel. We set up a Family Home Evening with them for the next week. We also said we would pass by during the week to see how everything was going in finding the people to teach. So we went by later, and we shared a scripture with them or asked them if they found some people. I don't really remember what but then the wife started telling us how we were angels sent from God to help them. They said that after we had came their week was completley different they had started to change and we helped them. We later found out that it was the same family that Elder Hoagland had found. The cool thing is that they invited like six people to the family night. We are still trying to help them out. 

Hearing stuff like that makes the mission all worth it. 

Right after that we went to a house to teach an investigator mom with a less active daughter and her aunt was there and the evangelical aunt totally chewed us out. We then promptly went and bought them cookies and left it on their door step saying we were sorry for bothering them. They felt pretty bad after that and wanted us to come back but it was too late at night. Fight meaness with kindess kids. 

Anyways love you all. Cuídense

-Elder Rowberry

P.S. Thats a picture of me in front of a really big tree.