Elder Jakob Van Boerum : Fiesta!

Well for the past two weeks we have had a Fiesta here and Paracale, which means a big party and a bunch of parades and stalls on all the streets selling really cheap stuff! It was fun seeing all the people coming to Paracale to be at the Fiesta, but it ended up getting in the way a lot of the time for us to teach. A lot of people said they were preparing for the fiesta and were busy, and stuff like that. But we still had some amazing experiences.

One of them was contacting a referral named Anghelo. About two weeks ago, we got a referral from a member about her friend Marcy. So we went to go contact Marcy. Her neighbor came out first and said she's home. Then Marcy answered, but she basically blew us off and said "Oh yeah you can come back. I'll just let Tess (the member) know when I'm available." But we never heard from her again. So that pretty much means she's not interested. We ended up leaving, thinking that we didn't get anywhere. Then last week Sister Tess tells us that Marcy's neighbor, Anghelo, wanted us to come and visit him. So we went back, wondering why he wanted to talk with us. I ended up feeling prompted in the lesson to ask him why he wanted to listen to us. He ended up telling us the story of how he and his wife got together when they were 18 (he's 24 now), had a few kids, but it ended up going bad and now they are separated. He said his friends were having a really bad influence on him, so he was avoiding them and felt alone. He prayed to God for a sign to find the way to change his life, when he saw us and thought we could be the sign. We ended up having a really good lesson on the Restoration with him, and he said it all made sense and he was very willing to pray about it! I think he will progress so well and I'm so happy we got the chance to help him!

That was probably our miracle of the week. We had a couple other really good experiences, but now I'm out of time! Sorry but I'll try to get more time next week! Love you all and hope you're doing great!

2/2/14