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Milagros!

April 13, 2020

Hello everyone! There is not too much to report for this week.  Still stuck in the house just calling people all day. It's getting a little old but I know this is all temporary so I am just trying to enjoy all the benefits while I can!

We bought like 20 traps to catch all the rats, and prayed that we could get rid of them. All were baited with girl scout cookies and peanut butter. I guess they don't like those things because we stopped hearing them! We didn't catch any, but we also can't hear them anymore... so that was kind of an unexpected answer to our prayers!

We saw some CRAZY miracles this week! Like, someone we are teaching, Anibal, invited his cousin to join our video call! His faith is so strong already that he wants to do missionary work! Anibal shared a POWERFUL testimony of the Book of Mormon to his cousin, it was awesome! We also got a video call from someone that we have never even heard of before. We were very confused, but answered the call anyway. She basically just said, "I want a book of Mormon and I want you to teach me". That phone call came out of NOWHERE and it was so miraculous. The craziest part is, her name is "Milagros" which means "Miracles" in spanish! We also got a text from someone we don't know that said "Are there 3 kingdoms of glory?" It came out of nowhere but we were happy that they were interested enough to contact us. Super cool!

Other updates! We made a facebook account for this companionship so that future missionaries don't have to start from scratch and re-follow the whole ward and all of the people we teach. So now I am running 2 facebook accounts and a facebook page! I am just trying to grow the page as much as I can but I havn't physically met anyone since I got here a month ago so I don't really know who I should be friends with. A little difficult but está bien! We have been trying to make fun videos to post, but we have had some technicaly difficulties and can't post them. That's a long story! But you ought to look out for videos on our page that will be posted in the future! They took forever to make haha! The page is called La Iglesia De Jesucristo De Los Santos De Los Últimos Días en Olmstead.

Anyway...  Hope you all are safe and healthy and staying sane! We started the quarantine on March 17 and were told that (as of right now) we will go until April 29. But it keeps getting extended so its possible it will be longer.  This week felt super long and we are going crazy, but this will likely be an experience I will not forget! Have a great week!

Elder Webster

PS. I sent the address to the mission office a few weeks ago, but some people were asking for my apartment address too so here it is! Feel free to order pizza or uber eats or something *wink wink* my birthday is coming up. And it turns out that I think packages are safe to be delivered here, since we are here all day. But after the quarantine... maybe not haha.


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