Another awesome week here in beautiful and hot Guanacaste!
Like the subject title says, this was a very crazy, hectic week! We originally thought that we were only going to have zone conference, but then they advised us on Friday (3 days before semana de milagros) that it was going to be the semana de milagros. Normally we spend like 2 or 3 weeks, preparing and planning for the semana de milagros so it was a little hectic but it ended up going really well and with us seeing lots of miracles!
Elder Waite and I are just having a blast here in La Victoria and we´re super excited to help our little zone progress and have tons of success. We weren't able to spend too much time in our area this week, but we were still able to see lots of small miracles and enjoy the week. In the zone, we have LOTS of potential (at least I think so) because we have several people investigating the church that have already assisted, but just haven't gotten baptized yet. Just in our own area here in La Victoria, we have like 4 people now that could possibly get baptized this week or the next...
Jordy was going to get baptized yesterday, but again, he had family problems and couldn't come :(. He told us that this week "for sure" so we´ll see what happens. If it was all up to him, he would've been baptized weeks ago. His mom just doesn't make it a priority to be able to go to church with him on Sundays. We also had a really cool miracle with an investigator that we have named Marley. She´s a single mom of 4 and one of her daughters is already a member. We haven't been able to visit her too much in these last 2 weeks, but on Saturday she told us that she feel likes God has answered her prayers and that she has received her answer!!! We told her that she could get baptized the next day, just that she would have to have her baptismal interview during church. She agreed but then didn't come to church the next day and we still don't know why :(. We will be visiting her tomorrow to see what happened. And then we had ANOTHER cool little miracle on Sunday. We had just called Jordy like 15 min before church was about to begin and he had told us that he wasn't going to be able to be baptized. We were a little crushed, but then my companion and I noticed that there was some guy just standing outside the church gates doing nothing. We invited him to come in and he just walked in and sat in sacrament meeting with us!! We challenged him to be baptized afterwards and he accepted! We will be visiting him tomorrow as well!
Lots of little miracles this week and I´m so grateful for the chance I have to be here to witness them. The Lord lives and loves us and truly does put little miracles in our lives every single day if we open our eyes to see them. I have seen them plenty this week and I will continue to open my eyes and look for them. I invite you all to do the same. Even if you have the worst day, the Lord will bless you in one way or another and we need to CHOOSE to be grateful and focus on the blessings and not the problems we may be facing. We´ll all be happier if we CHOOSE to be.
Hope everyone has a great week! Pura Vida!
Elder Smith
Pics: Liberia zone with president and hermana laboriel in our zone activity!
P.s. I promise I´ll take more pics this week :/ sorry mom
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