Week 38...4/27/15...Hard work and obedience bring MIRACLES! Finding Hermana Gloria

I honestly feel like I've forgotten so much English grammar. But here I am again with another update. This week was probably the most successful weeks of my entire mission. At the beginning of our week, our Mission President Presidente Ruiz made a surprise visit to our district meeting. I was feeling nervous because we haven't had power in such along time. It's there all day right after we leave the house, and then at night when we're actually home they cut it off. So I haven't been able to charge my razor. And the day before it ran out of charge so I was looking a little scruffy and we had just worked super hard and so our shirts were definitely not white, more like yellow. That's another thing. At night I really can't sleep because I just sweat in the heat without a fan and inside the mosquito net. I shower in the morning and dry off in the fan. But the moment I move out I'm covered in sweat all over again. So.... that gives you an idea of how hot it is. No AC anywhere really here in Guate. But Presidente was just there to get us all excited for this week. He told us the Goal we had was for every area to find 20 new investigators. But Elder Lagos and I put the goal of  30. We worked sooooo hard! We beat our goal and found 36 new people to teach! We found so many awesome people too! We challenged every single one to be baptized within the next 4 weeks and almost all of them accepted! So we're gonna have to work really hard with them to see where we go from there.

So the greatest story this week is about what happened on Wednesday. I asked Elder Lagos where he thought we should contact. He pointed down a road I'd never gone to (remember El Codo, only has 3 roads that cross the main road.) So we did. We got into this housing segment and he pointed to a house and said I feel like we should go there. It was really tough getting to it but when we got there there was this 15-year-old girl who brought out her mom. It was a little tiny lamina house. We started teaching her and then she said she wanted her family to hear our message. She started listing off all her kid's names and we ended up having 9 people in the lesson and we taught them the Restoration. Then on Saturday we came back and helped them unload some concrete from a truck because there gonna build a new house. Then we invited them to church and the mom Gloria said she would go if we got her a ride. So the next day we went in a Pickup to pick them up and we were expecting her and maybe one of her kids to go. But Nope. EVERY SINGLE PERSON WENT! So we had 7 investigators in church!!!! Along with the other 2 kids under 8 years old. So that was awesome! 

We had an awesome experience this week on Sunday. We did divisions, my comp went with the mission leader and I went with a return missionary, to cover all of the appointments we had. Earlier in the week, we had talked to a guy's wife but it seemed like he had no interest in learning about the church. But we have really been focusing on the Book of Mormon so we left one with her with the promise to read it. But later in the week, my comp was teaching some new investigators on the street when the husband of this lady walked by. My comp pulled him into the conversation and he started testifying about the Book of Mormon and how it was the word of God written by Prophets! So he set up an appointment with him and he said anytime we could come by his house would be awesome! MIRACLES! Hard work and obedience bring MIRACLES! It's incredible.

God has been blessing us so much. I'm just blown away that I have this opportunity to represent His Son Jesus Christ for these Two Years.

I love you all thanks for all the love and support! 

Love,

Elder Pugmire