Hellos everyone! I hope you had a
wonderful week.
This week will mark 9 months that I
have been out on my mission. That is insanity, but I suppose that is how it
will always be.
We had a good week! We got very busy
the past week and lost some of our habits of talking to everyone. But in the
past week we refocused and were able to find some wonderful people that we are
super excited about. The Lord puts those who He is preparing in our path.
We had a pair of exchanges this week. I had the opportunity to go with one of
our zone leaders, Elder Taphous. He is a solid, knowledgeable, and efficient
missionary. It was good to be with him and learn from him. We also got to do an
exchange with the Elders from Galt (a small town just north of Lodi). I got to
be with Elder Snapp, who is just a transfer younger, in our area. It was fun
and he is a great missionary as well. Solid Elder.
This week we had a cool opportunity
to have a mission-wide Spanish missionary conference! We received special training
that was really applicable to the needs of Spanish work and learned a lot. Both
of the counselors of President Lewis speak Spanish and one is Latino, so we
have a great opportunity to learn how to work with these wonderful people. It
was a great time and Sis. Lewis and Sis Martinez prepared a divine lunch for
afterwards. Chicken, rice, beans, the works!
My thumb still hurts. It might have
been broken.
It rained a good deal this week. We got super wet on Wednesday, and we lucked
out a couple other days and had wonderful members to drive us around!
We taught a couple of awesome
brothers this week, Roberto and Luis. I may have mentioned them earlier. But
they are great! When we came for our appointment, Roberto had read in the Book
of Mormon all the introduction and testimonies. He had some things highlighted
in the testimony of Joseph Smith and asked some great questions! That was super
exciting. Luis had not read yet, but he came to church yesterday and really
enjoyed it. It was a great fast and testimony meeting and the spirit was
strong. They are awesome. They always volunteer themselves to say the prayers
at the beginning and end of the lessons. They are both on date for the 19th of
April! :)
Yesterday after church we had an
awesome activity that our ward mission leader put on at his ranch. All the
people that come to Gospel Principles were invited (recent converts and
investigators) and it was great. A TON of carne asada and rice and beans and
cake and of course constant joking. Being funny in Spanish is way easier than
being funny in English. They are such loud people ;) Everyone's a comedian. It
was an amazing time! The Timalach family, who are converts of a couple months,
brought some of their family members who were super chill, and now we have an
appointment with them on Tuesday! They are a super cool young couple. They also
came to church with them! It was so amazing to see the Timalach family all
excited about bringing them and sharing the blessings that they have seen from
the Gospel.
Well, I hope you all have a
wonderful and blessed week. Think of those around you that the Lord is
preparing to hear this gospel. This message brings way too much happiness and
peace and joy to be kept to ourselves. I love and miss you all. Stay strong!
Elder Stone
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