Rhett

Hola familia!

I hope you all had a great week. It’s always great to hear from you and hear all the good things happening over in the US. We just got the transfers this week and I found out that Elder Esse and I will both be staying here in Ruta. So I will be finishing my mission here! The time has gone by so fast I can’t believe it’s almost coming to an end:( But I'm really excited to be here another transfer and see the fruits of our labor! I want to finish strong and be diving across the finish line!

This week has been a little crazyy. Mirla got really sick this week and then had a soccer tournament for their son so we weren't able to visit them this whole week unfotunatley. But they still have their baptismal date for the 17th, so we will be working with them and do all we can this week to help them be prepared for that day! We have had a lot of investigators this week that haven't been showing much progression and having been keeping their commitments so we are going to stop visiting some of them and try to find a lot of new people this week so that we can have a big group pf investigators for the transfer. It’s been a little bit tough to see that. But I dont want to waste any time and want to find all those prepared that really need the gospel in their lives. We had a really cool experience yesterday. We left the house with a prayer saying that we really wanted to find a family if possible that needs the gospel in their lives and that could be baptized this transfer. We left with a member and had planned to go to an area a little bit far from us to a reference a member had given us. As we got to the area we asked a bunch of houses and asked if they knew the reference but everyone kept telling us that she lives over there, or over there two streets down, until we got there and it wasn't her haha. But when we got to one of the last streets we saw a lady and a kid sitting out side and we decided to contact and talk with them. Without even basically saying who we were, she told us to pass by and sit down. So we sat down on her porch and she told us that she hasn't gone to a church in about 6 months because she hasn't felt good in really any church. She told us about how Franko(the kid that was sitting down on her porch) has been living with her and her sister and that he basically his whole life hasn't had parents to help him and to be with him so that’s been hard. We shared with them about the restoration of the Gospel and how God had put His church on earth once again to bless us and our families and help us have a better life. They told us that they would like us to keep coming by to teach them more. We didn't even plan to go where they lived that day but somehow we ended up there and were able to find them, a familiy ready for the gospel. It’s a testimony to me again that God answers prayers and that He guides this work. There are so many people that need this gospel in their lives, we just need to find them! I hope you all have a great week. Love you guys!

Elder Reilly