My weeks been amazing! It's been
tiring, but we've worked super hard and have seen lots of miracles. It's in the
80's/ 90's here and the first week it rained every day, so I was freezing. It's
a lot cooler than Tucson!
This week we had a lot of crazy stuff
happen. We spent a good chunk of the week knocking and not having too much
success, but God definitely blessed us for our efforts.
There’s this part member family that
we've been working with named the Montijos. They are super sweet. There are 7
people in their family. The mom Liz, her oldest son Angel who lives in Tucson,
Adrian who is a member, Priscilla who's a recent convert, then Danny, Isaac,
and Julissa. Anyways, this week Priscilla had to make a really hard choice. She
had to choose between going over the weekends to spend time with her daughter,
or going to church on Sunday's. It was really hard for her, because she doesn't
get to see her daughter very often and everyone was pressuring her to go visit
her daughter, but she also felt super bad missing church on Sunday's. She decided to miss church for 6 weeks so she
could see her daughter. We were really worried, especially since she got
baptized just a few months ago, and we could see the difference in her family
between when she was and wasn't going church and reading her scriptures. The
night she decided to go we had a lesson with her about keeping the Sabbath day
holy. We were really bold and promised her that if she chose to go to church on
Sunday's that God would provide a way for her to spend time with her daughter.
We invited her to think about it, and about a minute later she told us she felt
terrible about choosing not to go to church and decided that she needed to call
the people back and tell them she needs to go to church on Sundays. Right after
that we could feel the Spirit so strong and feel the love God has for her and
her family. Right after she called and
left a message her mom ran in all stressed out because their ride to a really
important meeting the next day fell through, and they didn't know how they were
going to get there. Then her phone rang, and it was the people calling back
about her daughter. They told her that she could go visit with her on Fridays
and Saturdays instead, so that she could go to church on Sunday. They also told
her that the meeting was actually over the phone, so she didn’t need a ride
there. It was a miracle! I don't think
I've ever seen God bless someone for choosing the right so quickly! It just
shows that when we make good choices God will provide a way for everything else
to work out!
Second miracle of the week:
On Saturday we were over at
the Montijo's teaching Liz because they have been teaching her for about 3
months, but her baptism date has fallen through about 2 times. We had just set
another date with her for the 23rd, and we were asking her how she
felt about it. Then out of the blue she asked us if she could change her date,
and we said yes kind of worried she'd push it back again, but to our surprise
she asked for it to be changed to this Tuesday! We told her that it might be a
little soon, but we decided that we could do it on Thursday just to give us
enough time to prepare. It's crazy because last week she wasn't keeping
commitments and had stopped reading and going to church and she wasn't really
interested in having us teach her anymore, because she missed the sister that
was here beforehand. However, her heart softened and she has started reading
again and even went to church last Sunday although she got up late and only had
15 min to get ready and Priscilla didn't come! It was so crazy!! Anyways we are
super excited for her. And the best part of all is that all of a sudden her son
Adrian who is less active wants to start coming back to church and fix
everything, so he can be there with his family and they all can eventually be
sealed together in the temple! I'm super excited for them!
Besides that not much else has
happened. We got to go mining on Friday. There's a man in one of the wards here
who is digging up an old mine and so we got to help him dig for a few hours. My
shoulders were super soar afterwards! But it was fun! Also it was in Patagonia
which is absolutely beautiful!
Anyways I love you a lot! Thanks for
everything! I miss you! Only 5 more months ;) haha everyone here is starting to
ask me how it feels to almost be done with my mission, and I'm like wait I'm
not almost done what are you talking about?!
Love,
Hermana Burgoyne
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