Our Little Miracle Project

Buenos Dias!!!

I don´t have a ton of time left, but I have some important things to say.

First I ate the foot of a chicken. Yes, it´s true. Well, actually I couldn´t eat it. I tried. And I just couldn´t choke that sucker down. Apparently it´s good for wrinkles...I decided I would rather have wrinkles than eat one of those again.

More important, we have the baptism of Carlos Lelkes this week! he is the best. He was the guy that was originally the contact in the park, but an hermana from the church brought us to teach him. This whole time he has been our little miracle project, because he just seriously wants to change his life and is ready and willing to do anything. But something really incredible happened with him this week. He told us one day that he was really happy, but he was really hungry because he hadn´t eaten anything in like 2 days. It broke my heart, but my companion and I just didn´t know what to do. That night, we had a meeting with the ward mission council (where we talk about the investigators and make plans for the members to help us) and we told our ward mission leader what Carlos had told us. Carlos came that night to the church to get a blessing of comfort and health from some hermanos, and Hno Barraza (the mission leader) talked for a long time with Carlos. Afterwards, we saw them walking and talking like they were best buds, and Carlos just looked so happy. He is always happy, despite all of the hard things in his life, but for some reason it was just different; he looked different. We talked to Hno Barraza, and he was like " Oh yeah, everything's fine. After the meeting we´re gonna go grab a bite to eat and just talk for a while." So here´s the thing. Hno Barraza took him out to dinner. But he also started him in a process to get a job, so that he won´t have to worry about money like he does right now. The people here, members included, really don´t have much. But they just want to share. They just want other people to feel the same happiness that they do. The members here are so strong, and such a huge help to us. After Hno Barraza told me he was taking him to dinner, and I saw the look of pure bliss on Carlos´face, I just started crying. It was so so sweet.

So I really don´t have much time, but I wanted to tell you that we are working hard. My companion said that she has never worked this hard in her whole mission. And it´s paying off...we´re getting a lot of good stuff done. But we´re exhausted! Hahaha literally I was a zombie yesterday. So it´s good, but we´re trying to learn a balance in all things. One thing that I personally am working on is realizing that all I do here, good work or bad work, is all FOR THE LORD. I don´t do this for myself. I don´t do this so that I can call my district leader every Sunday and give him good numbers. I´m working on learning that everything we do is for something greater than ourselves. It´s really interesting.

I am sorry I am out of time, I have more to say but there's never enough time! And pictures take forever to load so I only got those ones. Ill do better next week. I love you all so much!!!! Take care! And read Alma 26!!!

Mucho amor, Hermana Scott