Monticelestial

¡Hola!

I hope y'all had a good week! This week was pretty full with taking
over the area (Never is easy) and showing Hermana Ponce all of
Monticello : Jewish people, the amazing garden, the food pantry,
Firstway, all our investigators, etc! But somehow we also ended up
needing to be in Middletown a lot too (not in our area) we had zone
meeting there and also went to visit one of our members in the
hospital twice. So with all the time spent out of our area, and trying
to show her our area too, it was a packed week!

So like I said we have a member who was in the hospital, the mother in
law of our branch mission leader. She has cancer and had some
complications so we've been visiting and doing all we can to support
them. Keep Mama Burgos in your prayers though - she's amazing. She
gave all of the missionaries nicknames when we went to visit her
Saturday (mine was Smiley) we love her so much!

This week we had a few really amazing spiritual experiences/ miracles.
So Friday we planned to go tracting in Liberty. So we pull off on main
street and pray and then look at the GPS. We ended up in a
neighborhood and the first 3 houses Sis Ponce picked were abandoned,
or close to it. So we continue through another street, say hi to a
Spanish family and talk to a few people, but nothing really happened.
But I kept feeling like we needed to go to this apartment complex
closer to one of our less actives house. So we go over and start
tracting, and a few doors people were nice but not interested. One
Pentecostal lady from Charleston talked to us for a while too. But
then the last door this guy, Jaime, opens the door and he seems so
excited. We find out he's Hispanic so we start speaking to him in
Spanish and find out he knows a TON about the church and he's actually
been to church before AND the sisters used to teach him (so he's a
former and we later found him in our Areabook) because they used to
live in that same apartment complex. We were able to bear testimony of
the BOM and invite him to pray to find out the truth for himself. It
was really cool experience. He said he works a ton and was only home
briefly - it wasn't a coincidence that we were there at that specific
time - it's incredible how the Lord knows when people need us!

 

Then yesterday we went and saw Beth and at the end she said she wanted
to say the prayer and it was just the most sincere prayer. She was
crying, I was practically crying. It's just incredible to see how much
she has changed and how the spirit has started to enter back into her
life the past few months we've been visiting her. Wow I love her so
much!!! (These people in Monticello have my heart for sure)

We had some pretty good Monticello moments this week too. (Sis Ponce
is really getting a good welcome the area haha) Thursday, her first
day, our landlords came in with an exterminator guy (hopefully no more
spiders) so that was normal just a surprise - But then Saturday Joe,
the maintenance guy, just shows up to paint our deck and it was just
super odd. And then we are about to head out for the day and Sis
McCreary's friend just walks in think he was at her
apartment...apparently people here don't knock they just walk in?? AND
THEN yesterday we're driving back from Sis Roa's last night and I look
up and there is a grasshopper right by my face inside the car. So I
have to pull the car over to get it out - only in Monticello.

Anyway sorry this email was on the short side this week! We didn't
have much time and nothing too unusual happened. I hope everyone has a
fantastic week! I love y'all :)

Con Amor,
Hermana Smart