So first I'll tell ya about how the work went this week. We saw miracle after miracle. We brought Susannah to a member's house to watch conference. She really seemed to like it and the Spirit of the members home helped so much. They are also amazing member missionaries because they invited her to the Sunday session and pretty much did everything on their own without us asking. It's so nice when you can put your complete trust in the members. She loved the Sunday session as well and we taught her Monday and talked more about it and she is still on the search but she is really enjoying her journey and is striving to do what's right. I had a cool insight while explaining to her how she will get her answer. I said that we all want to get to the top of the mountain (our answer). We know that there is a mountain there because we have a map (scriptures), a compass (Holy Ghost), and we have friends who have been to the top and tell us how great it is (members), and we have guides to help us (missionaries). The only problem is the pathway to the top is clouded by a super thick fog. We can barely see 5 feet ahead let alone the top of the mountain so we have to walk in faith hoping that the mountain is there and that the map and compass actually work. As we walk, the pathway is fairly easy but as we continue it starts to get steep and difficult to climb. This can be an evidence that we are on the right path because we are going up. Even though we know we are on the mountain now we still have to use the map and compass to keep walking in the right direction until the perfect day where we break he fog line and we reach the top and see clearly the thing we were searching for. In the end, taking the trip taught us just as much as what is at the top of the mountain. I love how much the Spirit teaches me as I try to teach.
Another crazy miracle we had was with a guy named Christian. Now we had met Christian a while ago through his roommate. They are both Romanian so there is a bit of a language barrier and when we met Christian he said he was a member. He explained that his mom and sister were baptized and he went to church with them in Romania. He has long since gone inactive and now he wants to come back so we shared the restoration with them and it was a powerful teach. Christian was stoked to come to conference and an awesome member named Charlie was able to give him a ride and we tagged along. On the way my companion asked when he was baptized and he said 3 or 4 months. We were confused and through clarification using pictures we found that he had never actually been baptized and he wasn't a member. It was so crazy! He loved conference.
There are so many cool miracles that happened to us this week and those are just a few but I would say the best thing that happened to me this week has been Elder Aguiar. So I found out last Monday that Elder Dey was leaving to be an office elder and I was going to get a new guy I had never met but heard great things about. On Friday we had a Zone Leader training at President Gubler's house and Elder Aguiar and I met for the first time. He has only been out for 7 months and he was on the island of Guernsey for the whole time which is a branch of 8 active members haha so Friday we became companions because Dey had to go in the office early and learn the ropes. Elder Aguiar and I became best friends shortly after. We have been together for less than 6 days and I have never been so happy on my mission. We have been working so hard, seeing so many cool miracles, laughing loads, and doing God's work. He is my best friend and I'm so stoked to be with him. I'm not exactly sure why we got so close so quick but it makes being a missionary so much fun when you are with your best friend. On Monday, 3 days into our companionship, we went to lunch with my favourite member in the area and we both walked away with headaches from laughing so hard and then went on to teach a really powerful lesson. Everyday has flown by and in the 6 days we have been together we have already forgotten to eat dinner twice because we have been working so hard. One of our random stories is we were driving home for really quick dinner and because we had an appointment at 6 and we saw to kids playing basketball (a very rare sight in this country) and I joking said to Aguiar, "wanna play basket ball?" And he said, "you won't pull over." So I did and we played with them for 20 minutes in our white shirts and ties and then got their phone numbers to play again and share a message. Then we walked away laughing just thinking what the heck just happened. We are having so much fun!!!!
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