Hola Mamá y familia!
I guess I did not explain very well. I am NOT with Elder Elliott anymore. We are NOT in a trio. It´s just me and Elder Winward. I will do my best to explain things.
Transfers happen every 6 weeks. At the end of a six-week transfer period every single companionship in the mission gets informed if they will have a change in their companionship. However, sometimes during these six-week periods they have to do emergency changes because missionaries have to go home because of health problems, finishing their time of service, etc. When that happens you can have a change in your companion even while you are still in the middle of a six-week transfer period.
That is what happened with me and Elder Elliott. A missionary finished his mission, so they sent Elder Elliott to replace him. Elder Winward was a secretary in the mission offices and was working in a trio of Elders. They took him out of the offices, and one of the other secretaries received double responsibility (his responsibilities + the responsibilities that Elder Winward had).
Long story short- my companion now is Elder Winward and not Elder Elliot. ¿Todo quedó claro? Bueno, seguimos.
What a wonderful week Elder Winward and I had! God blessed us a lot!! We missed 1.5 normal working days this past week because we did a special activity in the mission office for having baptized 93 people in February as a mission! So this past Wednesday we were able to get together as a mission and we did some team-building activities. I also got to play basketball for the first time in about 6 months!
After the activity, God blessed us with some wonderful miracles. First, Emanuel continues to take the initiative in his family to come to Christ and attended church this past Sunday! He´s going to be baptized this coming Saturday and we´re super excited!
The second miracle was with one of our investigators from the family history workshop- Florencia. We went to her house and helped her with her family tree. Before leaving I opened the gospel conversation with an invitation to church, and she opened up to us. She had been feeling like she has sought God sincerely but didn´t understand why bad things have happened to her and other people in general. We shared the Book of Mormon with her, invited her to read, and attend to church.
After a great experience in the church meetings, our ward mission leader/counselor in the branch presidency said that when she arrived that morning she had said to him and another member that she was planning to get baptized in our church! We had not even taught baptism yet with her and she had already felt it for herself! We are beyond excited to help Florencia arrive to this incredibly important step.
After a great experience in the church meetings, our ward mission leader/counselor in the branch presidency said that when she arrived that morning she had said to him and another member that she was planning to get baptized in our church! We had not even taught baptism yet with her and she had already felt it for herself! We are beyond excited to help Florencia arrive to this incredibly important step.
I know that God lives and loves us! He has plans grander than what we can imagine for our lives! He will continue to work for good in our lives- we must simply accept his help through humbly following him.
I love you all!
-Elder Lambert
Photo:
The District of Junín and Chacabuco
Top Row: Elder Winward (Mapleton, UT), Elder Pietz (Louisiana), Me
Bottom Row: Elder Candela (Spain), Elder Colindres (Honduras), Elder Acuña (Spain)
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