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Miracles upon Miracles
May 21st, 2018




Hola everyone  i hope you all had a good week!!  Things are going good here in ramos!!  We have thought of new ways to work and things are really starting to come together.  We have seen so many miracles this week.  We found so many awesome  people who have already been prepared.  

   Miracle 1.  We were teaching a family, but the mom couldn't get baptized because she isn't married to her boyfriend and they were living together, and he isn't divorced and it was gonna be a really long process.  What made it harder was that he wasn't on the same page as her. Last week we fasted with her, so the situation could work out so she could get baptized, and so  she could know the will of the lord, weather she should leave him, or try and get married to him, cause she didn't know what to do.  We fasted, and she talked to her boyfriend, to let him know she wanted to get baptized, but that she couldn't because they aren't married.  He then left for a couple days, then came back, then left again for good.  It was really really hard to see her go through that, she was really sad, but now she can get baptized, and she can find someone she can go to the temple with.  Its hard for her right now but its gonna be so worth it in the end.  She is so strong and has so much faith.  

Miracle 2.  We were contacting and found two girls who just moved here, and they were going to church where they lived, and they loved it and want to start coming again.  They never got baptized and we are now teaching them again!  They remember pretty much everything that the elders taught them from where they used to live so that was pretty awesome!

Miracle 3.  We have been praying for inspiration to find a new way to work more effectively, and we found it, and it has been working sooo good.  One thing we have been doing is when we get done eating with the members, we ask them who we could visit in the area that they know, who haven't been coming to church, and we found 4 potential baptisms in one day from referrals!  

   The mission is so hard but so fun and so rewarding!  All the crappy things we go through is so worth is when we save a soul!  Washing our clothes by hand, showering with buckets, killing giant cockroaches, being so hot you feel like you're in a sauna 24 7, being away from family and friends, is sooo worth it.  I've never done something so fun and rewarding in my life.  I love you all!  Have a great week!  (If you made it this far and still read my emails i want you to know I love and appreciate you haha!!)

   -Elder Atkin

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