Transformers

HOLA!!!

This week was again extremely hot but it was a good week! The past few weeks we´ve been able to find a couple new people to teach that are amazing and we are really excited to see how they progress.

Our zone with zone tshirts!

Malecon - a port in our area!

Malecon

Malecon

Malecon

Samuel! We were knocking doors last week and he opened the door and let us in! He's nineteen and he is super cool, he is very sincere and very interested as well! He also loves basketball!! He isn't very tall but according to him he can dunk pretty easily... The only problem is that lots of times their games are on Sundays so he hasn't been able to come to church these past two weeks...

El Flaco de Oro! I mentioned him a while back, he's the luchador that we've been teaching. However, we lost contact with him and only recently were we able to go back and talk with him. He showed us photos of his fighting days but his masks are packed away so we couldn't see them... However, he promised to take them out for the next visit!

Jazmin! We found her knocking doors on Saturday, she is someone who is having a lot of trials and problems... her husband can be abusive at times. She told us that he worshiped Satan... Like he literally had statues and things to worship him but she threw them all out. She also claims that he can transform into a cat... a little crazy but she seems perfectly nice and normal! But now every time we see a cat Elder Reyes or I say that its a transformer and probably her husband. :)

Guero, Guera!  Close to Malecon they sell this super delicious ice cream thingy.  They call it nieve (snow in English).  We each bought half a litre.  They gave me two spoons thinking that we were going to share .. but NOPE we are both just that lit!  haha!

Regardless, it has been a great week! We've focused a lot in our lessons on the power of the Book of Mormon and the importance of it in the conversion process. We feel like helping the people we are teaching to understand this and to read it will help them to act with faith. We are teaching someone named Juan Carlos and he said a couple lessons ago that he knew this all was true, however he didn't accept the invitation to be baptized, which surprised us! We were talking afterwards about how he could believe this church to be true but not want to join! We realized that it was because he hasn't been reading the Book of Mormon, he had based his testimony on the logic and not so much on faith. So the next lesson we focused entirely on the importance of reading and we hope that he will actually start reading! He is an awesome kid who would be an amazing member.

I know the Book of Mormon is true. I know that it is the word of God, and I know it can bring us a lot of comfort and it fortifies our faith! 

Hope you all have a great week!!
Elder Gurney

It's hot!

Hi Everyone!!


This week has been the hottest in the mission so far! We live on the second floor and only have a small air unit in our bedroom. When we come home each day, it feels like an oven!

Elder Reyes is now officially halfway through his training and he is doing awesome. We've been able to find a few more investigators these past few weeks, and a few are looking like they can become great converts, however, they don't come to church! We are teaching this one man and his son, the father just had his fourth heart attack a couple weeks ago, his wife is a member but she also has a lot of problems with her health. He wants to get baptized but the past couple Sundays he hasn't been able to come for one reason or another. We also found one university student who says that he received an answer to his prayer and he knows the church is true. However, he also couldn't make it to church this Sunday so we´re really praying to know how we can help them keep the commandments and develop their testimonies. We´ve really thought about the Book of Mormon and the power it has in the conversion so we´re going to focus on helping them develop testimonies of the Book of Mormon to help them progress in the Gospel!

Brandon's Aunt Deena made this for him at our family reunion!  We all missed him!!

Hope you all had a great week!!

All is good!

All is good!  We don't have many investigators that are progressing so we are trying to find new people .. which is difficult but we are getting there!    

The blue towel is to wipe off the sweat!

Have a great week!

Elder Gurney

The Gift of Tongues ... ish

This week was a bit crazy. We didn't quite have as much time to work as normal... Because of the elections we had to be in our home at 6 on Sunday, then on Tuesday we had our zone conference, on Thursday we had our interviews and a house check, on Friday we had a fireside in the stake center, and through all this Elder Reyes was sick. It was a little different but I learned a ton this week. 

The zone conference was awesome as always, its fun to gather as a bunch of missionaries and learn together, oh and the Costco pizza is also a perk. After the zone conference we had a few meetings with the Bishop and the ward leaders so Tuesday absolutely flew by. 

Wednesday was a normal day, we had quite the interesting experience though... We were knocking doors in a street that I had never been before, and we met this man named Benjamin. Basically he just wanted to fight about the Bible, we tried explaining the Book of the Mormon but he wasn't hearing it so we just offered to finish with a prayer. I said the prayer but before leaving, he wanted Elder Reyes to say one too, so he said a prayer as well, and then he said that it was his turn. So he said his prayer as well, and in the middle of the prayer he started talking gibberish, Elder Reyes and I looked up at each other in surprise. After he finished he said he didn't know what he said but he knows that God understood... It was an interesting experience.

Friday was cool because of the fireside, President Palmer and the Stake President shared messages and then answered questions. We had a few recent converts that came and they all asked great questions, it was a great fireside, there were a ton of questions and it lasted about 2 hours. 

Saturday we were able to find an awesome new investigator, his name is Andres and he was a Luchador when he was younger, with the masks and everything! In our next lesson were going to ask to see them to see if we can get a photo with those masks.  But yeah, this was a good week! Hope you all had an amazing 4th of July!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

We had so much rain this week ... we had fun with an overflowing drainage thingy!  

Elder Gurney