Watsonville to Menlo Park

 Hey Everyone!! 


It has been awhile but I got transferred about 3 weeks ago from Watsonville after being their 3 transfers(about 4 months) to Menlo Park/Palo Alto/Redwood City area. It was sad to leave Watsonville and my comp Elder Smith for the 2 transfers together as well as Elder Salazar in the trio for 3 weeks and it was a bit unexpected but I'm involved in the Elders Quorum now up here and the Valparaiso 2nd Ward is awesome! The members are a lot of fun and I've gotten to connect really well with them and as well being in the Elders Quorum has helped a lot with unifying the members with missionary work. It's a bit different as we are working with a lot more inactive and returning members, but it works really great with getting members more active in their ministering assignments as well as helping us fellowship for those that we are teaching that are progressing towards baptism. There are a lot of awesome miracles and stories to share that I have experienced out here so I'll try to do better and write more often to share those haha but the work is great and we see blessing after blessing everyday. 

Yesterday on Easter I had the opportunity to go back to Watsonville and do the Confirmation for my friend Guadalupe who got baptized! It was a long time coming for her and she finally made the decision which brought a ton of joy when I heard. It was such an amazing spiritual experience to see her get baptized and like we always told her, she's the spark of light that will bring the rest of her family to that eternal blessing with her someday. Some other great news is our friends Carlos and Abraham here in Menlo Park are getting baptized as well this coming Saturday. Please pray for them in their decision, especially Carlos because his dad is very against it right now. 

The mission has been great though and just been absolutely life changing in the 13 months I've been out through the people I've served with and met. Love you all and keep me updated!!



















Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Divine Potential

Image
  Como estamos!!! Sorry it has been so long everyone! I'm still in Menlo Park and now 4 weeks into my 4th transfer here. I have a new companion again and his name is Elder Banks and he's a stud! He's a great example of love that he shows to all and has great high energy in getting the work done.  It has been so cool to see all that has happened since I have been in Menlo, a big one being the baptism of Stefani Gurrola. She was so determined the whole time to not let adversity stand in her way. It was such a really cool spiritual experience to see the change of this family, starting from the parents, to her husband junior and then her, it's an experience I'll never forget. We went over to the house 2 days after the baptism last week and the whole time we could just see a countenance change in her. We asked her to give the closing prayer and she just smiled the whole time and gave an amazing prayer and the spirit was so strong to just feel and see the change of this l...
Read more

Embrace The Suck

  Que pasa todos ustedes!!! So my p-day got switched to wednesday's now. Also this is my last week in the CCM! Crazy how fast it has flown by, but I have learned a lot and am ready to head out to San Jose.  This past week and half was very up and down. We started out the week beginning to start teaching out of the lessons of Preach My Gospel in Spanish and explaining scriptures in Spanish which was a big step up for the District. It was really tough at first, but through more and more practice and trusting in God, I have made great improvement. A lot of times I felt like I was not doing as good in the language as I should and that my abilities weren't the best. But something that has really helped not get discouraged and to keep pushing is that your choices show who you are far more than your abilities and as long as we are making the right choices and putting in the effort a step at a time, having faith in God, good outcomes will arise.  This past Saturday The ...
Read more

4 Weeks In, 2 To Go

Image
 Hola mi familia y amigos Well sorry y’all for not writing for my first 4 weeks haha, please forgive my slacking, but I promise you’ll be hearing from me weekly from now on.    The virtual MTC (Missionary Training Center) has been going good though. I started on March 10th on a Wednesday. My companion and District are awesome, love them all to death. My companion, Elder Ashby is from Farmington Utah and couldn’t be more grateful to have him as a companion. The dudes a stud and has such a strong testimony of the Gospel. His nickname in the district is “Pops” because he’s the only one whose 21, which isn’t old at all, but because everyone else is 19, but also because he's like a true dad and loves saying “oh goodness” a lot haha. Shoutout to Elder Grothe, who isn’t the only Elder who everyone thinks is 35 haha. But all jokes aside, it's really because he cares more about our district than anyone else. Whenever someone in the District is having a rough day, he’s the first to...
Read more