Week 17

So the other week I forgot to mention that as a district, we have 10 missionaries in our district, we went to this incredible taco shop named Lucha Libre that was featured on Man V. Food and other travel channel shows, and when we went in I was like crap this place is sooo expensive how am i going to pay for this, then I saw that the had some hotdogs for like a buck 50 so I was going to get that. Then there were some summer sales guys for AMP security, and they walked up to the front and said that they would pick up our check!!!! It was $87.40!! I was soo shocked and also felt incredibly blessed.  I got the surfin california burrito which had huge grilled shrimp, french fries, carne asada, sliced advocado, pico de gallo, beans, rice, sour cream, and a homeade chipotle sauce. IT WAS TO DIE FOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!    So then this past week my companion and I were looking for a potential investigator's house and some members pulled over and gave us $30 for "lunch money" and we were like sweet! and we happened to be right by Lucha Libre so we went there for dinner..... and there were more members and they paid for us!!!! So I got another Surfin California burrito and still had the $30!!!! MIRACLE!!!!!!!!! It was super awesome!! It was also great because we sat down and ate with them and there kids had on Tinker bell shirts and Ninjago!!! I flipped out and started talking about all the Tinkerbell fairies and the movies and was able to talk about Ashlyn and her favorite fairies and then I was about to talk about Brockoli and Kai and the golden dragon and all of that awesome stuff! :) oh how I miss them :) 

Another miracle is FREDDY IS GETTING BAPTIZED THIS SUNDAY AT 4!!!!!!

Another Miracle Below!!!!

 

So the guy above is Leonardo from Venezuela, he is our brand new investigator from this week. we had interviews with president on the 10th so last Thursday. In the middle of interviews with President Clayton he walks in (We were at the stake center) and says he wants to get baptized into our church and wants to meet the missionaries... WHAT!!!! If we didn't have interviews that day no one would have been there and he would've walked into a locked door! He ends up living in our area and we met with him later on that day. So he is getting baptized on November 2

!!!!!! We met with him and taught him (which is super hard because he speaks perfect spanish and his vocabulary is very educated unlike our spanish because the people we come into contact with speak very rough spanish and uneducated so our vocabulary is pretty ghetto and uneducated lol). So we ended up going to the Mormon Battalion the next night and he loved it! He also has super good questions and we hit a roadblock with him about the Law of Chastity, which was a hilarious conversation which I cant repeat because of the young audience reading and following. But he is super good now and we gave him the book of mormon on Thursday and by Sunday he was already in Mosiah 3 and he came to church and also a fireside which was 30 minutes away! he is awesome! He is meeting with the branch president tonight to ask some really good questions and how he can serve in the church!!!! once again MIRACLE!!!!!!!!! We are in one of the roughest areas when it comes to the missionary work and we have seen so many miracles!!!! :))) The Church is True!! :))))

Love you all,

Elder Hays