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Monday, April 17, 2017

Book of Mormon held high!

Happy companions -Solis and Wilkes


This week was awesome! We received a car!! We got a Toyota Corola which helps a lot. We love it, and already named it Milagro (Miracle). It feels so good to be in a car again. The day we received it was the day that we found a golden investigator.





She is from Sonora Mexico and met missionaries when she was a child, but never had lessons. When she moved to California, she met missionaries again, but still didn't take any lessons. When she moved to Utah, she obviously found more missionaries and decided to take that as a sign from God that just maybe she should talk with them. But there were two problems. Her boyfriend was completely unsupportive, to the point that he wouldn't speak to her for the rest of the day when she went to church. Also, that the missionaries were being really pushy for baptism. So the missionaries dropped her. When she let us in, she had a lot of questions that were never answered. Every time we were able to answer her questions, her face got brighter and brighter. We asked her to tell her boyfriend that she would like to meet with missionaries again. When we came back 2 days later, she said that her boyfriend is okay with her taking lessons!! It was a true blessing.

At the Christus Statue with the Thane family

Tulips at the temple

Temple at dusk

Tabernacle

Temple at night

On Saturday we had a Ward Easter Egg Hunt for the primary kids. There was about 40-50 kids there, and we had over 3,000 eggs for them to find!!! It was insane! The grass was almost like a minefield there were so many eggs on the ground. We also had a good Easter, and went to Temple Square with an awesome family, the Thane's. 



Well, I love you all, and I thank you for your support!!

John 15:13 - Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.


-Élder Wilkes

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