June 2, 2014 Transfers!

June 2, 2014

Hello everyone! This has been a pretty busy week.

So Elder Alcántara is going home from the mission tomorrow! It is really weird to be the companion of someone who is finishing the mission haha, and it kinda made the week a little harder.

Last Wednesday we finally got to teach one of our investigators, Nubia. We have been trying for like a month, but every time we had an appointment planned, be couldn't get a man to go with us (We cannot enter houses without a man present), or they would always cancel. But, as we were starting to talk, and young woman came in the door, someone who lives there with Nubia. She said "Hola Élderes", so we started talking, and found out that she had received the missionaries before, for like a year! So she wants to hear our message, too. Her biggest challenge is that she doesn't really believe in God, something that is a little rare here in Colombia. She says that she has never had a prayed answered, or felt the Holy Ghost. So we gave her a super-spiritual lesson about it! As we shared our testimonies, and talked about answers from God, she had started crying; we knew that the spirit was there, and that she could feel it. It is going to be hard, but I have faith that we can help her to get faith as well.

So this Saturday, two other missionaries (gringos) came to Modelia to stay with us until they go home on Tuesday, too. So they got to the house at like 9 at night, and decided to leave Bogotá to go to Soacha, with elder Alcántara! SO the missionaries from Fontibón (the closest area) came over to Modelia to spend the night with me, and the three almost-done missionaries went to Soacha! Then Sunday morning, the Fontibón missionaries dropped me off at the Chapel (my new companion was the Ward Mission Leader), then after the church meetings I attended their church meetings, and stayed with them for the rest of the day. Then the other three missionaries were coming back to Modelia, but they didn't have a cell phone, so at 9:30 at night we took a taxi over there to  make sure they were all good, and then I went back to Fontibón to spend the night. We didn't get back until 11:30, and had to wake up at 5 this morning! But do you know why? Because we went to the temple! 

And that has been my week. I need to go; thanks for reading! And thanks for the support! I know that I am supposed to be here, and that I have been called and set apart specifically to do so. I am so thankful to be able to share about the gospel and atonement of my Savior! And about transfers: I am staying here in Modelia, and my new companion will be Elder Flores, the trainer of Elder Mills, my first companion! Bye!

Love,
Elder Toombs