Well, another week has flown by.
We had a pretty successful week. We have been going by a lot of less active members trying to figure out who lives there and who has moved. And we basically walk everywhere. It is a lot of fun. It gives us a lot of chances to talk with people who are out on the streets. The only bad part is that it is super hot, luckily there is a lot of nice people who give us water.
Through walking around and talking with everyone we haven't really found anyone that was super interested. But we have had a lot of miracles come from out of no where which have been super cool to see. We are still working a lot with less active members, still just trying to figure out who lives there and who has moved. Turns out that the majority of them have moved and now we need to try and track down their address which is super hard. But we are working on it.
We also have been getting fed a lot of chile lately. Apparently we never learn. They will ask if we eat spicy food so we say yes and they bring out this salsa and just say 'cuidado, pica mucho' which means careful its spicy. Well always eat it and then find out that it really is super spicy but it tastes super good so we have to keep eating it. So by the end of dinner we are both sweating, sometimes crying. And then we proceed to do the same thing at the next dinner. It just tastes so good, but it hurts so bad.
This week we actually got a phone call one day from this guy named Joe Naranjo. He said he was from the Mission Creek ward and that he had a referral for us. So I talked to him for a bit about his friend and then at the end of the conversation he asked what my name was. I told him I was Elder Mackay and then he asked why my name sounded so familiar. Well I told him that I had actually served in Mission Creek like a year ago and his name sounded super familiar too. He told me where he lived and stuff and then it all clicked. When I was over there he was pretty less active but then one day we decided to stop his house and we showed up just as he was driving away. He quickly parked the car and invited us in, saying that he really needed to pray with us. So we said a prayer with him then he left. Well he came to church a few times after that and then I got transferred. Well in the phone call he told me that he is active again and he is now getting ready to go to the Temple! It was so great to talk to him and hear how much his life has changed. It was a great example of the difference we can make in peoples lives even if we can't see an immediate change. But they can definitely change. When we said that prayer with Joe a long time ago he was having a pretty rough time, but on the phone he told me that he as never felt more happy and blessed.
The gospel brings happiness!
Love y'all!
Elder Mackay
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