WEEK 19 - Cinco De Mayo
The day this entire transfer has led up to finally happened... and it went amazing. We had over 60 Spanish members show up to the Cinco de Mayo Devotional–almost every single member living in Sealy and the nearby area was there. I could not have been happier. Missionaries talk of a certain kind of joy, a joy unlike any other for the work of the Lord, and this truly was that joy. Looking around the cultural hall, filled with family and friends, everyone speaking Spanish, bonding over food–I’ll never forget it. We worked so hard, doing everything we possibly could have done, so that the work of the Lord and His will could be fulfilled. There were some hiccups–the Stake Presidency didn’t exactly clarify that it was at 5pm for President Richards, my mission president, so he was an hour and a half late to the devotional he was supposed to be speaking at, but it worked out. It poured all day, yet it cleared up just as the devotional began–I was fasting all day for the rain to stop because a large majority of Hispanic people do not go outside when it rains here. We had so many member miracles too. A brother in the ward, Hermano Cano, took us out to Columbus and Eagle Lake to visit some inactive Spanish members outside of our area and we had some of the most spiritual experiences with them, it was awesome. The Elder’s Quorum President, President Kmitta, went with us to an inactive member’s house to maybe help him out financially but also to invite him to the devotional and it ended up being something they both needed–ending with the member coming back to church, yesterday. The Spanish membership is the strongest it has ever been and I can’t help but feel like Elder Lawyer and I are beginning to reap everything that we sowed this last transfer. On top of Cinco, we were able to watch Hermana Guillermina Villanueva be baptized after church. She’s the woman that Elder Lawyer and I tried to visit just outside of our mission and if it weren’t for that and the focus we had on her–as well as sending her to the Hermana Missionaries–she would have never been baptized. I also was able to sit in on her baptismal interview and translate her beautiful testimony. She’s been coming to church for the past 30 years and has always wanted to be baptized but no one has asked. When we gave her to the Hermanas, we told them that they need to ask her to be baptized and now she’s the newest member of the Sealy ward. I continue to see the Lord’s hand in every aspect of the work and my life and so much has been happening, but I hope I am able to share a portion of the light, experience, and love I have been blessed with seeing out here in Sealy. I’ll never forget Cinco de Mayo in Sealy.
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