Monday, March 6, 2017

Week 29 - Nashville Providence B - David Archuleta


This week has been an awesome one! Monday night we were working close to our apartment, and I felt prompted that we should go knock an apartment complex that was pretty far away and we were on bikes. Luckily we went because we ended up finding the most golden family! At first the wife, Janet, answered the door with her two kids there. And she told us she lived there solo, so we thought we would have to bring a member over every time. So we got a return appointment for the next day at 2, which we knew was going to be super hard to get a member for. But we remembered there was a new returned missionary in the ward, and he still didn't have a job. I.e. He was free. Haha. But when we got there, her husband was there! And it turned out to be the smoothest sailing and one of the best lessons I've been in. And all we had to do was teach. We showed the picture on the front of the resto pamphlet and Antonio said " that's Jesus, and when he came to the earth he had to fight to establish it. And after he died it disappeared. Where is it now?" We were speechless. And when we taught about prophets, he asked "why are there no prophets today? Why has god left us alone?" We just couldn't believe the questions he was asking. And after we taught about Joseph smith he asked how he can pray to know. We literally couldn't teach the lesson fast enough for them. He then said the prayer and thanked Heavenly Father for opening his eyes to this grand cosa that is happening in the world. It was so cool! And they have a 1 year old daughter who is just the cutest thing on the planet. She just kept bringing me different things from all over the apartment. 




Then Tuesday night we were going to do a practice church tour with one of our members, but they last minute canceled on us. So we were looking for something to do while we waited for our ride, and we found the Spanish young single adults from this area. And you'll never guess who we met! We got to hang out and talk with David Archuleta about his mission and the work here. It was super cool. The other elders got to go out to dinner with him Thursday but we were stuck on exchanges so we couldn't go. It's ok, we'll have another chance. He's a super humble and chill dude.




Wednesday we had zone conference and I felt like I'm finally getting comfortable speaking in front of a bunch of people. Because it felt like my companion and I were the only ones commenting the whole time. And there were three zones there. I also got to see elder Pappin there, and I still love that kid. There's a good chance he could be transferred down to providence this next transfer. Which would be so awesome. OH there was also 5 tornados here that day. We didn't get affected directly, but almost every road we needed to take had huge trees over them. And there was a torrential downpour the whole way. It was really cool. I felt like we were in a movie! 




Thursday we had another exchange, except this time I went with elder brown, who was in my mtc district. It was kind of cool to see both of us knocking doors and speaking a ton of Spanish because I can remember when both of us knew 0. He's still the same person I knew back in the mtc, so I had to pray for a lot of patience, but other than that it was great. 




Saturday we went to the hospital to give a blessing to a less active member. He was the same one that we gave a blessing to the first day I got here. He had gotten a blood clot and it got to his heart and it ended up stopping and he collapsed on his 16 year old son. His brain never died, but it didn't get any oxygen for a few minutes. So they put him in coma to stabilize him. He's still not doing very well, but there is a neurologist going in today to check him out. But the son is a spiritual giant right now. It's so cool. He said right before he went to be he prayed that God would give him a clear sign if everything was going to be ok, and that he didn't want anything else other than his dad back. He said that every time he goes to sleep now, his dad is in it and tells him to stop worrying. He was seriously glowing while he told it. We are going to go back again today and just hang out with him to keep his mind off of the whole situation. 



Love you fam


🇺🇸Elder Williams🇲🇽














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