Hola familia! This week basically nothing crazy happened. We were able to find a couple of families that are super awesome. It was kind of funny how we found one of them. One day we were street contacting, and we contacted an older lady that was a less active. With her we got an appointment to visit for the next week. Well two days later we were contacting, and we contacted two two cousins that were walking in the street and we got an appointmnet to go back and visit them. Well the next day a guy we had never seen yelled, elders! You have to visit me. We said great and we got an appoinment to go and visit him. Well the day came for the first appointment and we went, and wouldn't ya know it, every one of them was there haha. We had contacted the whole family but at different times. We walked in and thought, you gotta be kidding me. We've contacted everyone here haha. The other was a reference, and they are super awesome. They don't currently belong to a religion, but they want to and they loved everything they heard so we are definitely excited. That appointment was crazy. It was 5 o clock. at 3 o clock we hate a huge lunch, at 3:30 we ate ceviche peruano which is super delicious and also a very large lunch. We went to the reference full to the brim thinkin that would be it for the night. Well, we were wrong, They gave us a big dinner and we were at the point of exploding. It was crazy how much we ate. We had to just hammer it because it was an investigator, and we didn't want them to feel badly in any way so we girded up our loins and ate until the food was coming out of our eyes. It was nuts. The best thing that happened to us this week is that familia chinchuña, well the dad, finally said he was ready so this Saturday we hope to baptize the parents of this family and get them started for the temple. Its been incredible how much we have been blessed in this sector. In Esmeraldas, I would have killed for just 2 or 3 investigators with potential. Here, they have been put in our path like crazy. It been nuts to watch miracles right before me eyes every single day. Beginning this week we had no investigators becasuse they all got baptized and we were able to find 9 investigators with tons of potential this week. It's incredible! I don't even believe it haha. The thing that made me most happy this week was to see the conversion of every convert I've had in the sector this week. With fausto tixi, we were in a lesson talking to his wife, and she was naggin him a little and pointing out his flaws. I asked howd you feel in your baptism? You have to remember he doesn't talk much, but he said with as much power and authority as a missionary, " I felt the plain ashurance that God forgave my sins." Marco ugsha stopped us in the street happy as could be and said, " Elder Nielson, guess what! I started reading The Book of Mormon. I had my guitar and a Book of Mormon and I couldn't decide which to do, and I read the book." Carmen and Piedad, "I love the Book of Mormon, I read it everyday and I just want to keep reading it everyday." Katy Frutos, " From the first moment that I met with the missionaries my life had changed in so many ways for the better." That was something that was really on my mind a lot. We worked like crazy with everyone of them so they would say this but when they said it it meant everything to me. I've never been happier in my life than to hear Marco is reading the b of m. It was a pretty incredble week actually. Marco never attended church before I got here but since the day of his baptism on the 28th of february, he has not missed even one Sunday of church. I lvoe that man so much. That is basically all that happened this week. It was good week and we hope to have more like it. I love you guys and I'll talk to you next week.!
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March 2016
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