Monday, March 19, 2018

The Lord Can Prosper Us, Even When We Make Mistakes


Salto is great, and the companionship rocks. Elder Veizaga is really consecrated. 

Anyways, Eduardo got the Priesthood last week and was called a a young men's counselor! This week he blessed the sacrament, and he was a little nervous but he did such a great job. It is amazing, he has really changed his life around so much. Now he is helping us with investigators, and contributed a lot in Gospel Principles. Mario is doing really well too and wants to get baptized! He has a lot of member friends now and is even going to seminary!

We went on divisions twice this week. I stayed in our area for both. Our day on Thursday was so awesome with Elder Santos. He is a brand new missionary, but is a stud. He was born and lived 11 years in the states, but then moved to Brazil, and so I had some Portuguese language study with him haha. We found a lot of really amazing people that day too who we have a return date with! 

One of those was actually due to an error on my part haha. So I had a contact in my agenda, but wrote the address down incorrectly. I couldn't really remember exactly where the house was so we asked a couple of people if they knew the person. No one did, but we met an amazing lady named Yaqueline who accepted to listen to our message. She is Evangelical, but absolutely loved the message of the Restoration. She even began to cry at the end and promised us she would read the BOM and truly pray to know if it was true. After the last prayer, she thanked us for coming and said that she loved how we dedicated ourselves to helping people. So, we asked her for references, and she referred us to all her kids haha. We visited a few, who were really nice, and we are going to return this week. I thought this was a cool experience because it resulted out of a mistake I had made in writing down a contact haha. Really the Lord can work in misterious ways, even despite our weaknesses! Also, if I wouldnt have been on divisions, Elder Veizaga would have just told me the correct address of that contact, and we would never have run into Yaqueline, or her family.

Anyways, the work in marching forward. This week we have found a bunch or really great people. It was an answer to our fast last week to find new people who could progress. I love the mission. This work is true! Have a great week!!

Elder Layton

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