Very good week again here in Porterville! The work is building momentum here in Porterville! We took a trip up to Ducor again to teach Felipe again and had a fire lesson! We invited him to be baptized on the 17th and he was pumped! He feels the spirit so strong when we teach him and we downloaded the gospel library app on his phone and he's super excited to listen to the Book of Mormon! We made another trip again out there on Saturday with the branch mission leader and had another solid lesson on the plan of salvation! We also found a new family to teach who has 7 kids!
Tuesday we got to go to the Temple as a zone and had an awesome temple trip! I love the Temple so much! We also had some cold weather blow in again and it dropped into the 20s and froze a bunch of stuff!
Thursday we were on Exchanges and Elder Cragun and I took the bus up to Springville, the only little town we hadn't been to yet. Spanish missionaries hadn't been there for years and we found out why, cause it's puro gringos! We contacted the whole town riding all over on our bikes and found only 3 mexicanos! (Who also spoke English perfectly so we gave them to the English Elders). We even went to the two Mexican restaurants there and everyone was gringos!
Friday night I got a call and was told I had to give a 15 min talk! So during personal study I wrote it up, practiced it, then gave the talk Sunday Morning and I think it went pretty well! They said they could understand perfectly and learned a lot! I guess the gift of tongues helped out a bit there! I also ate a super spicy chili before to help my fluency!
One of the key parts to testimony is Pondering! We must have faith that the Lord will answer first, then ponder the things we learn in our hearts and if we do so the Lord will reveal unto us the knowledge we seek if it is his will!
This week my favorite scripture comes from 1 Nefi 11 1 For it came to pass after I had desired to know the things that my father had seen, and believing that the Lord was able to make them known unto me, as I sat pondering in mine heart I was caught away in the Spirit of the Lord
One of the key parts to testimony is Pondering! We must have faith that the Lord will answer first, then ponder the things we learn in our hearts and if we do so the Lord will reveal unto us the knowledge we seek!
Have a solid week!
Con Amor y Frijoles,
Elder Houssian
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