God hears our prayers!

 Hey fam. I was lazy and didn't want to write last week butttt don't worry I'm back and better than ever! First off I just have to say that my heart is SO FULL this week from seeing God's hand in my life. This week was one of the weeks where I saw my testimony really grow! 

Some great things this week 

-Starting w the BEST things this week was we had 2 baptisms of amazinggg people- VERY prepared to receive the gospel!! But it wasn't as easy as that sounds haha it was the most stressful yet rewarding experience of my life! Well first off Jose Guerrero got baptized Friday and that guy really was golden and so happy to get baptized and seeing prepared people find the gospel and get baptized and seeing them just glow after Is really the best feeling in the world! The second person- Eduardo Gabriel was a little bit more of a struggle but it was so amazing seeing him grow, so here's his story: 

Eduardo was in teaching before I got to this area but they dropped him for like a week because he didn't want to change religion, he just wanted to "follow jesus" but he had a lot of doubts of how to do that and his family was super catholic so he didn't want to go against his fam etc... well he started reading the book of mormón in this time and he couldn't deny that reading the book of mormón he felt "peace" and just felt "a good kind of different" reading it. Well when I got to this area we started talking to him again and wowza we had the most spiritual lessons of my life with him! We testified so strong with the spirit and it was so amazing having him want to get baptized and really gain a testimony of the book of mormón... in this like 3 1/2-4 weeks he's read from the beginning of the book of mormón through 3rd Nephi which is crazy!! Anyways the struggle part with Him was literally 2 days before his baptism he calls us and just says that he doesn't feel prepared to be baptized and he thinks his catholic baptism was sufficient for him... well it brokeee my heart because literally he is the most prepared person I've ever taught! Well in the phone call the spirit was not there haha bc we were #triste and he was #defensive so i told him we were coming to his house the next night to talk to him. Well we showed up and had the best lesson of my life. First off we studied and prayed before going to his house and actually started a fast with our zone (especially for him and some other investigators) and showed up calm and with the spirit haha. we simply testified of Jesus christ and asked him if we wanted to follow Jesus christ really, and after he said yes and committed to do anything to follow Jesus christ we testified of how he can follow Jesus Christ's example and be baptized. We explained baptism again in a way way made more sense w examples and He stopped us halfway through the lesson and literally said "I don't care what my family thinks, I'm going to be baptized tomorrow" and the spirit was SO strong! I wanted to cryyy. Seeing him get baptized was the most rewarding experience of my life and I know that he needed specifically me and my comp to come to christ which was way cool! It was ahh so so good!!

- we had interviews w pres this week and it went soo good! I really feel his love for us and it felt good to talk to him:') anddd it was great bc during the other people's interviews we balled up in our dresses w some basketball w the elders and it was rad! You can tell I don't back down w the sports bc in the last 2 months Ive shattered 3 watches playing 

- zone conference w pres was also this week and it was SO good! We learned a sickkk new teaching method (that really works bc I've already started seeing its fruits) and I was super spiritually uplifted and motivated after the conference! We did some practices w the new technique and ate some double hamburgers which slapped 

-The people I have met in this area (in the ward, my investigators, my comp and the missionaries I'm serving with) really have strengthened my testimony that God places people in our lives for a reason and is SO aware of us!! I have felt the love of God SO strong through them and ah I'm so happy!! 

- on a super crowded bus a guy started freestyle rapping and we were the main part of his rap as 2 gringas and it was rad jaja. My new goal is to get to the point of where I can rap in spanish:) 

-all the kids and teenagers in our privada are our besties now (they freaking love us) and we play soccer at night sometimes now which is super fun and we're having a picnic next week w these 2 little girls haha, stay tuned 

-we ate some bomb Mexican food (like always) and got dorielotes this week after a couple long days. The guy literally pulls right up to our house with them. If you don't know what they are, come to Mexico and have a taste of heaven 

Anyways I'm having a great time here haha. I love Mexico, so many things are freaking random and it's getting HOTT here but wow i love it so much!! Love you all and shoot me an email or message if you have a chance this week!! Love ya! 

-hna Stone