week 72

Tuesday

We made a fun little video for our zone Facebook page about the fifth commandment and it turned out great! I will see if I can attach it at the bottom. 

Wednesday

We had our district council! Its always great to see other fellow missionaries

Thursday

We did service again! We went to a big warehouse, but this one was owned by a Catholic Charity. I took a few pictures and it was such a surprised when we noticed that the majority of the hundreds of boxes on the pallets were from the latter day saint distribution center!

I'm going to skip to Saturday because it was the best day (and second to last day) of the transfer. First off it was amazing because during daily planning a text came through from our district leaders with a Zoom link. I couldn't believe my eyes as I read the description (translated to English) "Oruro Station Ward is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Baptism of Virginia Cámara Hora 9:00 am 21 nov. 2020. A person I taught in my last area was being baptized! Her story is amazing and we taught her with Zoom for months even though she lives in Bolivia. I remember the night I invited her to be baptized and she said yes, but didn't know how to get to church or who her local missionaries were, and since church attendence was paused at the time she was never able to find the church. We found the sister missionaries and told them about the situation and gave them the best description of where our friend Virginia lives. They said they would do their best to find her and it wasn't until last week that they did (I had no idea) and they did a baptismal interview and scheduled her baptism for today. I thought that after I had transfers I would never see her again. I had faith that she would eventually get baptized when the missionaries found her, however I wasn't expecting it so soon, and I was so honored to be invited from her to watch it live. It was an unforgettable experience watching a baptism happening so far away of someone who's heart I touched from so great a distance. I personally congratulated her afterwards and then had to get back to the work with my companions. 

Another very exciting thing that happened tonight was that the transfer board was posted! I was the first one to see it in our companionship and I couldn't have been happier with what happened. I will be staying here in Sudley E for Thanksgiving and Christmas and so will Elder Smith! We will be recieving Elder Logan (who is a reassigned missionary who served in Trinidad) who will be replacing Elder Hart. Then, as we were talking about Christmas our mission president called us and had news for Elder Logan: he will be going back to Trinidad on December 17th! I guess we will only be with him for three weeks or so. (I really hope I will be able to go back to Costa Rica too.) But speaking of Christmas, now that I know that I will be here for Christmas, all the decorations have gone up! (there's not that many but hey)

I am excited for Thanksgiving and am loving the challenge that President Nelson gave us to make our social medias into a personal grateful diary and thanks God through daily prayer. I am especially grateful for missionary work and the joy it brings us when we get to help people.