This week on Elder Silva's mission it was bomb! We Baptized Diana! She is awesome! So a little bit about her is that she was actually a reference from a member. The member was her college teacher and he brought her to church and presented us to her. She had a lot of questions about the church but she said that she liked it alot!
We started teaching her and she is a very nice girl. She didn't have a hard time in keeping any of the commandments because she didn't break none of them, she was basically a member already lol. But something kind of weird happened last week. We had a appointment last week with her and my companion went with another missionary. When they got to her house her dad came out and was kind of rude to them and she didn't come out. So we were worried about her and wondering if her family was going to let us to teach her still. But she called us and said that she was sorry about what her dad and that it was better if we taught her at the church so that's what we've started doing :)
One of the most amazing things that happened was when we invited her to be baptized and she said that she wanted to think about it. We invited her to pray about it and promised her that God was going to respond her. So one day we were at the church building for an activity she came up to us and said ¨Remember how you guys asked me if I was willing to get baptized?" "Well the answer is YES!¨ My companion and I were both in shock and she explained how she prayed and said that God answered her prayer! That's another testimony that God really does answer his children's prayers if they are willing to do his will he will ANSWER!
This week on Elder Silva's mission it was great. We had district conference and our Mission President talked and it was really inspirational. We are currently teaching a lot of great people. We are teaching Paola's mom and her friend Dalila. They are really great people and they actually went to see conference and loved it!
However, my companion Elder Jenkins is currently sick :( He has a fever and an infection in his stomach. We are actually going to do some divisions today with a member so that we can go visit some of the investigadores. One of them is Diana and she is planning to get baptized this weekend!
This week on Elder Silva's mission it was awesome. My companion Elder Jenkins and I are having divisions with the whole zone everyday and things seem to be working really well. The areas are getting better and the zone just seems stronger.
But one of the crazy things that happened was that I had my last zone Conference with the Mission President and all the zone leaders in the mission. It was really nice and also sad because there are a total of four missionaries that are leaving that were at the zone conference and they are really good friends of mine.
One of them was Elder Beal; we actually got trained in the same district. And Elder Lynch who was in my first zone and Elder Santos who I'm actually going to baptize some of his family that were in my other area in Parrilla in the coming weeks! It was really nice to hear their testimonies on how they were strengthened in the last 23 months.
This week on Elder Silva was pretty rough we tried to really find people to teach but for some reason we just get rejected pretty hard. But after hearing the 186th General Conference it was like a spiritual boost! I love to hear the words of the church leaders especially the Prophet and the Apostles.
One of the talks that I liked a lot was David A. Bednar's, how he was explaining that having faith in Jesus Christ is not enough but we have to actually believe in Him. Not only believe in Him but believe in His promises that they will be completed. For example believe in the commandments but most of all in His Atonement and that through His Atonement we can be clean and be saved and actually believe in the Savior!
I also like the talk of the Prophet Thomas S. Monson and how he just talked very little but something really important which was the Word of Wisdom and The Plan Of Salvation. How that is something very special and that we have the opportunity to know it and that we should share It!
