Everything in the Lord's Time

Dear friends and family,

Sorry I have like no time today because we ended up playing capture the flag for our zone activity and it was an absolute blast so we lost track of time but life is going great. We had a hard week this past week. A lot of our appointments canceled on us (like a good 25 out of 35) and members would just not show up sometimes but honestly I love Valencia. I have fallen in love with the people and the culture and just basically everything. The church, of course, isn't as strong as I am used to back in Utah but the members love God and their testimonies are simple and pure. I am so humbled by these people who have been members for fractions of the time that I have been and who have such incredible faith and testimonies. I feel very blessed to be serving here.

Our miracle experience this week is that, much like other weeks, on Sunday morning we realized how far we were from our goals (I know it probably sounds like we are just hitting up the beach during the weeks but I promise we actually are working the whole week). We knew we had worked really hard and that if we just kept pushing ourselves and praying that the Lord would help us because we have seen him help us in the past and he definitely did. We ended up meeting our goals (we had 7 investigators and Manuel in church! it was awesome!) but even more incredible was that we met a Spanish family of nine who is very open and interested in hearing more about the church!!! (that probably doesn't sound all that amazing but it totally is...just fyi). After we set up a return appointment and left Hma. Shaffer and I just talked about all of the things that had to fall into place to get us to that point. It was amazing. Oh and Princess is doing amazing! She knows she wants to get baptized (she has come to church 5 times now) but she wants to wait until her husband Juan is more interested. We invited them both to meet with our employment person for the ward last saturday during the chapels open house and unfortunately the brother didn't show up. We felt really bad but they ended up staying there and walking around the church for 4 hours! I am really hopeful for them but we'll see. Everything in the Lord's time.

I love you guys! Hope you have amazing weeks!