I love misionary work!

I am LOVING Life!!! We are seeing Miracles… We are expecting them and working for them and they are coming to pass!

We went to a recent converts house and talked to his mother-in-law at the door, we were aware she had been interested in the church but Mario the recent convert had kind of said "she will call you". So she answered the door and we asked for Mario(the recent convert) and then I just asked her "when can we meet with you" she started crying at the door. It was way cool! We went back 2 days later and taught her, she opened up to us, told us about her concerns in life, we intended to teach the 1st lesson but on the spot my companion changed to the 3rd. We taught a powerful lesson guided by the scriptures… We all shed a few tears in that spirit filled lesson. She asked "what’s the next step? I just want to start fresh!". That is when my companion offered her a baptismal date of December 20th. She accepted… She said she felt like the burden she had been carrying was lifted from her shoulders. It was the coolest experience of my mission. That is why I am a missionary! She told us she wanted to meet with us this morning (p-day) and we agreed so we have an appointment in a little while.

ALSO: We had former investigator (Maricella) ask to talk to us again. She is 16 and has read the whole Book of Mormon. She is the sister of Belen who is slightly less interested. Maricella was comfortable talking about baptism and went to church and loved it!!! We plan on setting a baptismal date with her this week. That will mean we will have set 4 baptismal dates in 3 weeks. The gospel is true! I love missionary work. Miracles happen! This week we also had to give up two of our favorite investigators, Debbie who has a baptismal date for the 20th of December, and the Famous Jeff! But do not worry because we took the pleasure of singing Karaoke with Jeff before we gave him to the English Elders. Jeff was sad to see us go and even told my companion he was sorry for making fun of him so much. He said the closing prayer and said how grateful he was for us and what we had done for him. He is a really good hearted person and really funny... Terrible singer... But good person. Apparently at the Karaoke bar that he goes to "its a country bar" when he goes on stage they play the OOMPa Loompa song from Willy Wonka.... I was dying trying to hold back laughter... I will take a picture with him soon and send it to you guys.

We also randomly ran into another former investigator that had a baptismal date in the past. Her name is Paola and she seemed interested in talking to us again. So overall this week was sweet! Not quite as funny as other weeks but way good and way spiritual!

Oh yeah, we also taught a lady that we might have saved her life... We were in this apt complex a couple weeks back when this guy told us "I don’t want to talk to you I am not interested" (without us saying anything). He did not appear to be the most intelligent person and so we said ok and kept on walking. 15 minutes later when we were leaving he asked us for help. He told us he "thinks something is wrong with his neighbor". We went in to look at her and she fell flat on her head from her knees. HE asked "you think I should call the paramedics?" I answered "yes" and we went over and kinda pinned her down because she kept on trying to stand up and falling on her head. She was unresponsive to anything. The paramedics came and we left. We came back last week and she said she had had a seizure and how grateful she was that we were there. It was a way, way powerful first lesson and she is going to read and we will meet with her again this Friday (she had tons of appointments to figure out why she seizured). She explained that she felt like we had saved her life and how grateful she was for that. And judging by the overall competency of her neighbor, I would not have been surprised if he wouldn’t have called the paramedics... SOO LIFE IS SWEET!

I love you all, Take care,

Love Elder Stiles