Monday, September 3, 2018

September 3, 2018 (Week 48)

Esperanza en la villa

This last week was pretty crazy, in a good way.  For the first time in a while, almost every day we got back home super tired, a good sign from all the awesome work we achieved.  We set a goal to find at least 20 new investigators, and in the end we were able to find many more than that, nearly every one with lots of potential.

In particular one day we were praying to find more hope (esperanza) as an attribute of Christ we were trying to develop, and that day we found a lady whose name is literally Esperanza!  The Lord is pretty ironic in his answers.  And it got better, because it turns out Esperanza has 20 children, 39 grandchildren, and at least 12 great grandchildren.  And we got nearly half of them from her as references.

Superb blessing and they have a ton of real intent in the gospel, so we really saw the lord raining down bendiciones on us!  The only trouble we are still having is getting people to church, it is still really hard for them to understand the concept of the commandment of the day of rest and to make the sacrifice to go to church, please pray for help with going to church so they can participate in the gospel!

Anyways, thanks so much to y'all and all your sacrifices and prayers for us out here, nos vemos!

-Elder Varney

Random art that Elder Varney found in his area

...More random art

September 9, 2019 (Final Post)

HE IS HOME! Here is some final pictures that his Mission President sent just before he came home: