It was quite the crazy week here in Porterville! Elder Hoffmann arrived on Tuesday and we got surprised with 2 new Elders in the English ward who have no apartment so they tossed them in with us in our small one bano apartment! But esta bien!
The work has been going very good here! Our investigators are progressing very well and Juliet is still looking forward for her baptism! On Wednesday we brought two less actives to the family history center and it turned out that the specialist was out so We basically had to help them start every thing on our own (Very little) family history knowledge. It ended up being a solid night and somehow we found a ton of their ancestors and they loved it! Mexican lines are super crazy too because of the limited records and use of many different names and their bad english translations! But they area really excited to get to the temple!
We saw a miracle on Wednesday on exchanges with the zone leaders, since we had two companionships of 3 we did a three way split and I went on bikes with Elder Yancy! I wasn't so sure where we were going to go or what we were going do so we just started to bike and like 3 min later this guy calls to us to pull over! So he pulled his car in and we started to talk, it turns out he was a member who spoke mostly Spanish who recently moved in here and hadn't been to church for a while! We had a great talk and gave him the churches directions and on Sunday he came and gave his testimony which was very touching to hear! We also gave him a blessing for his back which was about to have it's 7th operation!
Friday was El Dia De Los Reyes so we went to a members our and ate some Rosca (A massive traditional bread thing. and what they do is hide 6 little doll things inside and whoever finds one has to cook for everyone else one day in February! Elder Hoffmann and I ended up with one and Elder Fernandez with two!
Overall a great week and we see a lot of potential for this transfer! I'm in the Book of Ether now and my favorite scripture this week came from Ether 12:27 27 And if men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humblethemselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weakthings become strong unto them.
We all have weaknesses that we want to improve this new year of 2018, but one thing we should all try to improve are our spiritual weaknesses! We all have chinks in our armor of god and this is a perfect time to set spiritual goals like Read the Book of Mormon, Have a constant Family Home Evening Schedule, learn about the life of a Prophet, or Start of Family History work. Whatever it may be through Jesus Christ we can make these weaknesses become strong!
Have a solid week!
Con Amor
Elder Houssian
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