Dear Family and Friends,
What an amazing week it has been! I can't believe I am already sitting down to write another email, and this time my last one as a set apart representative of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! I can't even begin to describe all these experiences I have had in the past 2 years, but needless to say I am not the person I was when I came out on my mission. And that is all thanks to Jesus
Christ!
But let me share some miracles I saw this past week!
1. There is a converting power in the Book of Mormon. Simply put, if you read the Book of Mormon with the right intent (to grow closer to Christ) you will become converted. This is what is happening to Viviana right now! She hit a wall and stopped progressing, but we've had a couple of Book of Mormon reads together with a member and now she is reading on her own and a change is taking place! She also came to church yesterday with her whole family to hear me speak! So much fun!
2. Don't you just love when the Lord places you at the right place at the right time? We went on a exchange this past week with our district leader and it was so much fun to work with them. So we went to one part of their area, and as soon as we pulled into this townhome complex, there was a man sitting outside so we decided to talk to him. Turns out this guy had talked with missionaries for years in the past, but had just lost contact and the record we had for him got deleted. But we just happened to be there at the right time to be able to find him and start teaching him again!
3. I was also able to go with an Elder who came out like 5 weeks ago and was struggling really bad. But we got there and we just worked, and at the end of the night he told me that at that moment he was the most tired but also most happy he has been on his mission! It's true what they say, forget yourself and go to work, that's what brings the most joy! It was also an funny exchange because the Elder wanted to celebrate Elder Morrison's birthday, so he bought some confetti poppers and he also bought a chalk cannon (like the one they do for baby gender reveals) without knowing it was a chalk cannon. And..... yep..... he set it off in the apartment. So the whole apartment was blue the rest of the day and I was sneezing out blue dust the next day too! Crazy times haha
I love you all! Thank you so much for all the support and encouragement you have given me over these past 2 years. I truly am grateful for it! See you Thursday!
Elder Jorge
