Week 34 2/16/15

2/16/15

Hey everyone!

 Yet another Eventful awesome week has taken place! We have been running around like crazy this week doing so much! 

To start off the week i was on an exchange with Elder Bott, one of our zone leaders. He is a super awesome missionary and we had a blast just working hard. We spent all day speaking Spanish so that i could improve. (Which i am really trying to work hard to do because it would be really beneficial to have a Spanish degree before going to med school. So i better study hard!) We went to the hospital to help a member give his baby that was born premature a blessing. It was sad that a baby would be in that sort of situation, but thanks to the power of the priesthood and faith, right now little lucas is doing awesome! Then we just went hard talking to everybody we could in Birmingham on the streets and then tracting! We took a short break along the way to eat a taco from a taqueria called gordos. seriously the best tacos in the world! these where amazing! Then we ended up running into a bunch of awesome new people we will be following up on. Then we went to see a LA named Adrian who is way cool! he is going to take us out for tacos on thursday. we just hope we can help him find a job where he doesnt have to work on sundays!!!

So it was a fabulous exchange! Then thursday the coolest thing happened! Micah, a young black kid who lives above our apartment came to knock on our door. He had previously been given a church video. He said he loved the video and would love to know more about it! Crazy right!? We literally had someone knock on our door to be taught! it was a littl ebackwards, but i liked it haha. So we taught his a lot about the book of mormon, then the next day had some pizza with him and watched the restoration video. He is doing really good right now, he has been reading and he wants to come play basketball with us on tuesday. Im super excited for him to keep on doing good things!

Then we also are teaching a man named Alfredo! he is the boyfriend of a less active member and has been to church, he loves it! We taught him about joseph smith and the BOM and he really enjoyed that as well! we are going over tonight so hopefully it will be a really great lesson! He says he wants to be baptized!

So with all of that we have been really busy! pluss, on valentines day we explored an area called noth birmingham and found out there is a ton of hispanic people! so, we will be working up there more and hopefully will meat some really cool people! Then we went to a valentines day party at a less actives house, we kind of helped her throw the party really. She made food and we ran games and talked to everyone and then at the end shared a bible valentines day message! Genesis 29:20

And Jacob served seven years for Rachel ; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her. 

We related it to how the lord has sent us here to this earth. we left his presence which must have been extremely hard for him. So, can we even imagine the love he must have for us? To send us away that we might suffer hard times and pain? He does that because of the great love he has for us, and how he knows it will be worth it so that we will be able to become like him one day :)

So yeah, it has really just been a fantastic week. we are working hard and having great success! I love you all and the people here in bama so much! have an awesome week!