Week 47

So this week was super good! Hard at first, but ended with miracles! 

Tuesday: Had our district and Zone meetings. We have 7 missionaries in Buenaventura and our zone leader doesn`t have a companion right now. He has to go in a trio because his companion was sent to the offices. They have a lot more missionaries in the office right now because two senior couples recently returned to their homes. I was thinking hopefully grandma and grandpa Armstrong will get called to serve in Cali, Colombia because we don't have any senior couples right now! 

Wednesday: We had our zone leader Elder Avalos come with us today. He helped us teach some people and we finally have some people getting ready for baptism. One is Judith and she is super excited about the church. She was a golden investigator that we found in an activity and is scheduled to be baptized this Saturday. She is always so excited to learn and loves to have us sing for her too! If I stay here in Buenaventura she will be the first baptism I`ve had here! She actually works in another church and could lose her job if they find out she gets baptized but she doesn`t care and is super excited! 

Thursday: We went to a military island in a boat today to teach an investigator. He is the husband of one of our investigators and was accused of killing someone falsely. He has been on this island for 2 years waiting to get cleared of the accusation but I guess they are just still trying to find the right evidence. It was only a five minute boat ride but it was cool to get to go to this little island! We are planning to go next week to and hopefully we can get this guy excited about the gospel! 

Saturday: The other missionaries had a baptism today. It is always so cool to see a baptism in a river. We take  jeeps out to the baptismal site with all of the people and when we get out, the missionaries start singing hymns to bring reverence and they just start baptizing right after the hymns. The people that get baptized always bear their testimonies after they get dried off and it is always so spiritual!

Sunday was the day of miracles.  The first miracle was that we had 8 of our investigators come to church! I think that is about the most I have had in my mission and In Buenaventura it has always been 2 or 3 people that come! The second miracle was that we found several new people on Sunday. We found 2 families that both have married parents and seem like they will be great! They just came out of nowhere too. One was a reference from Judith and the other was a reference from William, one of our other investigators. The Lord always provides in the end. We found 11 new people this week and 7 of them we found on Sunday! 

Love,

Elder Armstrong