Miracle

Hey everyone! Hope you all had a great week! This week was all over the place for me, but it made it go by really fast which is great haha. 

First things first, last week I had the 2 hottest nights of my life. Since this country is SO hot and we don't have AC we sleep with fans which is great, but it's only great when the power doesn't go out. Well unfortunately last week the power was out for 2 straight nights. So hot and brutal but good times. 

I went to Santo Domingo last week for my residency and it was actually so fun. It is close to a 3 hour ride and the ride is so pretty. The scenery outside of the city where I'm at is beautiful! Makes me excited to see  new areas in the mission. While in Santo Domingo we had to get our blood drawn and that was honestly the worst. I hated it, but I didn't pass out. Only some other missionary did lol. 

We had Zone Conference this week which was amazing. President Breton is such a cool guy and is a spiritual GOAT. We talked about my favorite thing the whole time which is the Book of Mormon. It made me realize that I could be using the Book of Mormon in my teaching way more and way more effectively. It was so good being able to get advice from President on the Book of Mormon.

Lastly I want to talk about a cool miracle we had this week. We are teaching a man named Renaldo. He is so cool and very stubborn. He won't come to church nor will he keep commitments but he wants to keep learning and he is starting to develop a testimony. Before I get into the miracle, no he didn't come to church yesterday which was sad. But anyway we decided to visit him with a member from the ward. The member we chose was Hermano Reyes and he is a goat. He is so intelligent and loves the scriptures. We show up and him and Renaldo awkwardly look at each other for 10 seconds and then boom a huge laugh goes off and they are good friends. Who would have thought. The Lord was for sure in on that whole process of picking who we should take to him. The lesson we had was great and I know the Spirit was there. This was a huge testament to me that the Lord is in every little part of our lives. 

We are teaching a few others right now but honestly we are having little to no success. People are either "Working" or "Catholic" so it makes it really hard to find people to teach. Please pray for us this week to find some success in the street. Also please pray for Renaldo to gain the desire to act in faith. 

I love you all so much and miss you tons! One thing I learned this week is I need to put more trust in the Lord and have a better hope for things. I caught myself getting down this week but every time I would I said a prayer of hope and things got better. I know Heavenly Father loves you all and that Jesus Christ is His beloved Son who died for me and YOU. Read the Book of Mormon :)

-Elder Wilde