Elder Stoney Harward

Sunday, November 13, 2016

FEELING BETTER & A FULL WEEK OF CONTACTING w/o GETTING IN (Oct. 24, 2016)

Hey Familia! Còmo està?

I first want to let you know that I have been praying for you to get this new job! I think it would be a great change for you!!!! It is too bad to hear that Peighton and her team didn`t play too good in the Semi-Finals, but I am glad that they were able to pull their head`s out and make it a good season!

It is so amazing how the Lord works. That part of my setting apart blessing explains my thought process exactly with things right now. It is so weird how things like that happen, and I would love if you could get me that full blessing.  Oh, and guess what, today is my 2-month date!!!! October 24!!! I can`t believe that!!!! It has flown by!

I am feeling so much better. Back to normal. I feel just fine now! Which I am so happy about because now I can work again!!! Which is exactly what we did this week. We worked our butts off! We contacted a lot, and had a lot of visits with our investigators. Also, on Thursday, we did splits with another companionship, and I didn`t really like that experience. First of all, I went to their area, so it was all new to me. Also, every single one of the visits they had planned fell through... All within a matter of about 15 minutes, so from 4:30 to 9:30, literally, we contacted the entire day, and didn`t talk to anybody. The entire day we talked to maybe 5 people after knocking on at least over 50 doors. It was pretty rough. It`s hard sometimes, because all I want to do is teach people, but they just aren`t accepting us. It`s hard, but it is such an amazing experience.  But oh well. It was pretty cool to see their area.  Then Friday and Saturday were full of visits and contacts, and Sunday we went to church, and visited member families, because it is not a good day at all to go contacting or anything like that. 

Then today, for a zone activity, we went to a place called Chicabal. It`s a Mayan lagoon, at the top of a volcano. We walked around it, and back in the trees and things were weird alters, and Mayan sacrifice grounds all over the place, I will try to send pictures. (About that, I have been sending them with just email because I can`t find anywhere to send with WiFi. I will try it next week because it costs to get their password and I just haven`t bought it yet, so I will do it next week.) But Chicabal was a really awesome experience, and I was glad to go there today and see it! If you swam in the water they would literally try to burn you alive if you did anything that made them mad, because it is sacred Mayan land. Creepy stuff, but awesome to see that place!!!!!





It was a week full of contacting, and not being let into people`s houses. Anyways, contacting is rough, but it gives me practice with my Spanish. I can experiment with different things to say, and it`s fun, just a little hard at times, but, it will come, I know it will. Also, a lot of visits are with our investigators. They are all so amazing!!!

Brenda is awesome, she is 22 and she has a date for the 5th of November, and it is almost a for sure thing, so in 2 weeks!!! Then there is Paty, Indira, Edna, Maria Renè, and Michele. Paty and Indira are sisters, and Edna is the best friend of both of them. Then Maria is the daughter of Indira and Michele is the best friend of Maria, but lives with them because her parents are drunk and don`t support her. They are all awesome, and Paty is almost positively being baptized this Saturday, and if she gets baptized, it is almost for sure that Indira will follow, and if Indira gets baptized, it`s almost positive that Edna, Maria, and Michele will follow her. We have a really good line up going! I am so excited to see what comes from this, but yes, I love our investigators. They are awesome! Estuardo has kind of stopped taking lessons, but we always talk with him when we see him. So keep your eyes open for some baptism moments and pictures!!!!!!

1. PEAK MOMENT:  Going to Chicabal today. That was amazing!!!!! It was so cool to see that place!!!
2. PIT MOMENT:  Paty changing her date from this past Saturday to the 29th, but it should be good!
3. WHAT TO PRAY FOR:  Please pray especially for Paty that she can get her answer that this is correct and that she will know what she needs to do, that will help so much!
4. A SCRIPTURE TO READ: 1 Nephi 4:6 talks about how we need to follow the spirit, even if we don`t know what we are getting into, just to trust and rely in the Lord. I think that could get some good discussions going.

Well, I am so glad that everything is going good back at home, and I hope everyone recovers quickly from surgery?   I can`t believe you broke your nose now, Dad?! That`s nuts! At least noses are pretty easy to heal from though.I love you all so much and miss you all! I hope your interview goes great and I will be praying for you!!!!

I love you all!
Elder Harward

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