Elotada & Miracles

So last Monday was the Elotada! So basically the whole Spanish stake gets together at this huge park and we chat with everyone, play tons of soccer, and eat a lot of food, especially corn on the cob covered in mayo, lime juice, and chili powder :) haha that may sound gross but it's actually super good! It was an exhausting day and a lot of fun seeing all the other missionaries and members from Costa Mesa. Throughout the week you could tell if a missionary was in the Spanish program because we were all super red and burnt. I even got a sunburn where my watch usually is because it's so white. :)


This week was also a really good week for missionary work and we saw miracles often. We found & started out finding this really cool family. We found them out in their front yard playing with their little kids and we mostly taught the father. He was going through a pretty tough day and said that spending time with his family is the most important thing and said it really helped him that we stopped by. Wednesday was our biggest day for miracles because it started out really slow because all of our appointments were falling through and nobody was home. We decided to stop by Orlando, a guy we found street contacting with a member last week, and we had a really cool lesson with him. He wants to be ready to be baptized July 13th and I'm really excited for him! :) He is gonna need a lot of help but he has really good desires. Right after that we were unlocking our bikes and we were trying to figure out how we were going to visit this less active mom and daughter because we needed a member to go into the house but the member that was going to come cancelled. Anyways, so we get this random call and at the same time this guy down the street starts waving his hands at us. Elder Richards is talking on the phone and I am talking to this awesome guy named Jose who had moved here from Guatemala and was looking for the church or missionaries for a long time. The phone call was from a random member who wanted to come out with us and so we had two awesome miracles at the same time. We had a lot of experiences like that this week and we were really blessed.


This awesome member named Noe who was baptized in English a few months ago, who is way more comfortable speaking in Spanish but didn't know there was a Spanish ward...haha, introduced us to his sister, Lurdes, and his friend who are both pretty awesome. They have seen such an amazing change of happiness and hope in Noe and they want it for themselves. He is a way good example of just living the gospel and others will notice and want to learn more. We worked a good amount with less-actives last week and a lot of them came to church so it made me super happy to see them happy to be back. So much happens every week I love it! I hope you all have a great week!


Love,

Elder Hyde