Cambios

 Buenas,


Yeah cambios, or transfers is in two days, still don't know anything until Tuesday night. Basically I've been with my dad or my trainer for two transfers so its likely he will leave and Ill stay in Cañales for another transfer. I really want to stay as well, the people are amazing here and we have so many cool friends, new members.

One story: 

I went on divis or exchanges with one of the zone leaders in his area. We knocked a lot, talked to a ton of people. All the people that said they were interested lived outside of that area and that was a good amount, until around 7:30 we were walking around and we were supposed to have two appointments later but Elder Ramirez my ZL felt that we should knock this one street, so we went and knocked about 4 or 5 houses then knocked on this one house where we could see in like 100 feet kinda like a garage type for you to imagine and there were people way far away but weren't answering so we kept on knocking.



Then a guy without a shirt showed up and said he was sleeping then we talked a bit, then he said he was gonna grab his shirt so we waited. Next he let us in into his house and we started talking, and he told us how he felt calm even though his sister just died to cancer, then we kept on talking and he cried a bit then we comforted him then the ZL explained why its important to go to church and how we can feel peace and comfort in the sacrament then the blessings of baptism. We asked him how he felt and he said, I need to go to church and I need to be baptized.


Now I don't  know what happened the rest of the week but I hope he went through with what he thought he needed to do. And that's just a story, and really I hope he feels the peace he is looking for in a troubling time.

Sorry for the long story but it was just a great faith booster for me that there are people out there who need this gospel of Jesus Christ, many who are struggling but don't know where to look. And also that sometimes nothing happens until the end, sometimes we have to work and work and we don't  see results, and this applies to everything. As a swimmer for me it happens a lot where I'm working hard every day and not seeing changes, and then all of a sudden I just drop so much time. Not everything in life is linear, and just making sure we can keep on going when we are not seeing results.

Hope y'all are doing great! 


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