This week has been pretty stressful!
Full of a lot of miracles, a lot of good and a lot of bad, and overall
one of the most memorable weeks of my mission. It started off with me scrambling
to get everything ready for the temple trip to Tegus! From contracting buses to getting food ready for three hundred people. It was crazy!
We did another baleadas sell, and with a lot of help from our ward we
got all the money we needed to contract the buses. We contracted five
buses! I had two thoughts in my mind: "What if we don't even fill two?" Or "What if way more people come than fit in the five buses?" I was
stressing a little! But everything was coming together so nicely that I
knew God was helping us out a whole lot!
So
we moved forward with faith and finished up with our actividades that
we needed to do. We did a last minute garage sell that ended up being
awesome!!! Jaja, it was a whole lot of fun! And we got all the money
finalized! Everything was looking good. But then I got sick... I think
it is just the flu, but for the past three or four nights in a row I have woke
up with a fever of over 100 degrees. But when you are a zone leader with a
huge zone activity coming up there is no time to be sick. Jaja, we kept
sacrificing to give those people the opportunity to visit the temple.
The
morning of the activity we woke up at 5:00 in the morning to verify
everything and to make sure that our investigators came.
And we got to the church early. When we got there, there were already a
few people waiting to enter the church. So we entered and waited
for all the people. Within thirty minutes the church was packed!!! I have
never seen it so full! There were more than 300 people ready and
waiting to go to the temple! Just seeing that room full of people was an
answer to many prayers! It was amazing.
So
we gave a few instructions and left for the temple! Four hours up, two hours
there, four hourss back, with a fever of 102 degrees all day... it was a
LONG day! But when President Bowler gave his talk the spirit in that room was
so strong! It was all worth it. Every activity, every
baleada, every prayer, every second on that bus. It was really a huge
miracle that everything worked out so well, because there were a million
things that could have gone wrong. God was helping us!
The
next day was Sunday, and I slept almost the whole day. Today I woke up
feeling super sick, so i just laid in bed all day today too. Please say a prayer for me to get better, Mom! Your prayers are pretty
powerful.
Overall it was a pretty good week! I
would never want to relive it again. But I learned a lot, and saw the
hand of the Lord bless us a whole lot. I will be thankful for that for
the rest of my life.
I believe the temple is
the house of the Lord. It should be our goal to be there as often as
possible. I invite you to rededicate yourself to temple attendance!
I love you all so much! Have a great Halloween! Eat some burger beef stew for me! Jaja.
-Elder Smith
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