Hola mis weyes!(Hello my dudes)
This week was amazing!!!! I love my
new area and companion. My comp is Elder Tyler Johnson, from Michigan.....He's
lived all over the place but he's basically from michigan/utah. I lived with
him in Jurupa for 2 transfers and now we're comps. He's a loving, diligent,
faithful, hard-working missionary so I'm super excited to work with him. We
have tons of work to do. There used to be 6 missionaries in this ward, We
covered Indio, Coachella, Mecca, Thermal, Salton City and Borrego Springs with
6 missionaries. If you look at a map, you'll see that it's a HUGE area. So,
what they did, is, they pulled out the two missionaries from
Mecca/Thermal/Salton City/Borrego Springs, and gave all that to us. We now
cover all that including, Coachella. It's a HUUUUUGE area that probably covers
about a 1/4 of our mission. Soo, we took over all the investigators and stuff
from all them. We are also the only companionship in the mission who covers an
English and Spanish unit; Borrego Springs is a branch of about 20 regularly
attending members. I had the opportunity to go down to Borrego Springs to
translate for the four Mexicans in the Branch. The chapel had 4 full size pews
and 3 half size ones and that was it. It was an awesome experience to see the
faithfulness of the Saints in that area. The branch covers an area of 1,000
square miles. Those members sacrifice sooo much to get to church and take the
sacrament to fulfill their duty as disciples of Christ. It was great. I loved
it. We only go down to work there on Sundays, and only one of us goes to
translate/work with the Branch President because it's a 3-4 hr drive from where
we live.
The investigators we have now are
great. We are working with a woman named Yolanda. She is a Mexican, has a
family, and is the only one who listens to us. She is being torn from both ends
to where she needs to go. From one end, her family wants her to keep going to
the Christian church; and from the other end, God wants her to go to his
church. She's having a hard time rejecting her family. We received a solid
commitment that she was going to come to church with us this Sunday, but she
ended up going with her family to the "great and abominable church."
So we went over that night and planned to throw down hardcore. I very sneakily
asked her the baptismal interview questions, and asked her if she had received
her answer. She wasn't sure.
I said, "Why don't we kneel
down right now, you say a prayer and ask God what you should do?"
She said, "Esta bien." (OK) We did it and she said the most sincere
prayer I've ever heard on my mission. We then had a LOOOONG moment of silence.
We paused for like 2 minutes no lie. Pure silence. I broke it saying,
"Como se siente?" (How does it
feel?)
"Tranquila." (Peaceful)
"Piensa que ha recibido su
respuesta?" (Do you think you have
your answer?)
"Yo pienso que si." (I think so)
For those who don't speak Spanish,
translate it. It was great. She's now on date for the third of Feb. She's super
solid. I love this area. I love my mission. It's the greatest thing ever. DO
IT!!!!
Love,
Elder Matt Dial
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