Hollla!!
Well I have some big news this
week!!! Okay, get ready, get on your seat belts everyone for a big ride!! So
this week we got some great news from Benito. His papers are in and ready
to go!! His meeting went great he said and he has his second and final meeting
on August 17th I believe. After that he can get married!! So during
Priesthood he announced that he was going to get baptized on the 18th of
August, the day after his wedding!! AHHH!! I was so excited for him. He
really wants to be baptized. He has literally told me every time I´ve
seen him. :) I love that guy. Diana is doing great as well.
She has told me so many times that she is so thankful for us and for
everything that we have done for them. Benito wasn´t always so willing.
He was actually against the church for awhile. Then one day it just
clicked. I am not sure what happened, but I am glad it did.
We are still in the finding stage.
We have been for this whole transfer, but it has to be done. The
good thing is that God has blessed us:) Well as you all know that we had
this American BBQ on Saturday. Well that day was very rough. We ran
out of time on our phone so we were going to internet cafés to use a phone and
ahh it was just stressful. Well we get a call from Fernando, our missionary
leader. He told us that only today that the All Beef patties at Lidl(like
a walmart) were on sale, only today. We were going to get 120, but he got
150 for about 30euros. What a blessing. We was able to buy more
food for this event. Such a blessing. that night, we start up a
little late, but that´s fine, latinos are always at least 20min late. We
get started and it is seeming a little low on the people, I only counted 80.
Throughout the night I was praying my heart our for a miracle. At
the end of the night we had about 150-160 people show up. We ran out of
hamburger patties and we also bought 120 hot dogs, we ran out of those too.
Everyone got something so that was a blessing. Everyone loved the
water activities, the tour or the church, and the food. The members
brought their friends and everyone had a lot of fun. At the end of the
night, we had about 15-20 member referrals. From that, we now have a
family. Which we have been praying for for about 2 months. I am so
glad that everything went well. I have learned from this that it´s all in
Gods time, not ours. I was wanting to get a family now, not then. I
was wanting blessings now, not later. It just was a great activity that I
will be doing a lot over my mission. We split up the referrals will the
hermanas in our ward. We had about the same so we each have about 8
referrals.
Well, that night we got back late.
I told our zone leader that we would be, and he was fine with it because
he was there as well :P we had to talk to everyone and get numbers of non
members. Well I got to bed at about 12:30. Thankfulllly the next
day was a Sunday. Well I woke up the next morning feeling like a truck
hit me. I said a quick prayer "Heavanly Father, can I just sleep in
10mins, just this once, I am so tired, Amen." The words came very
quickly "¿What, you don´t think I can keep you up?" I feel
those might have been me thinking, but I took it is as a spiritual prompting to
get up out of bed. That whole day I was great, I had the energy to work
and get a lot done. :) Thank you Heavenly Father!
On the food side, nothing really bad,
just bad cooking. We had fish soup. Right before we ate it she
said, it´s good, but just watch our for the bones. Just to let you know,
when I hit a bone, I am out of the race. I hate that feeling of a bone in
my mouth, but I got through. Then she gave us a plate of rice and some
fish with this sauce. It was pretty nasty, she said again, watch out for
the bones. Luckily I had a good cut and didn´t have a lot, Elder Woodbury
on the other hand had a lot of bones. :P
One awsome story I have to share with
you all. So we get to the metro and we just missed it. We had to
wait 4mins and we were already late to an appointment. Well we get there
about 10min late. On the way back it happens again. I get off from
the stairs and sprint to the door. The door is shutting and I do not want
to be late again to an appointment. So I stuck my hands in the door and yes I
used my super human strength and spread the door apart so me and Elder Woodbury
could get in. :) Everyone on the metro just looked at me. I
saw one guy give me a thumbs up :) Yes I felt pretty special at that moment.
I love you all so much and I am so
glad that Mandy and Baby Kellan are doing great!! I love you all so so much and
think of you often! I hope you all have a good week! President
leaves this next week! I have a feeling that this new President is going
to be changing a lot around. But I don´t know till he comes :p I love you
all so much!!!
Love,
Elder Alex Laubaugh aka The Hulk
(Benito gave me that name:))
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