Amigos! How's everything going in life, what's up! Everything is going great here in Barahona. I've been seeing a lot of progress happening, and God is taking care of us well! I have a story I want to share, a miracle that happened this week. As you may or may not know, we have goals every week to meet 10 new people and to have 10 lessons with a member of the church present to share a message. This week we got off to a really good start early on, and by Thursday, we had 7/10 on both. However, Sunday evening we had 9/10 on both, and by about 6:30, we were wondering how we would do it. How would we get one more new person, and one more member lesson in just two hours?
Well, through the help of our Heavenly Father of course! As we were walking towards our last lesson of the day, I was wondering how we would find one more person, and right after thinking that, a guy comes around the corner in front of us (who we had met before) and we talk to him a bit and got his number. Boom, 10/10! Now we were on the way to find one of our favorite friends we like to teach, Ruben Dario, to get him to the lesson we had planned at 7:00. He wasn't home, so we went searching in the places he was usually found. We found him finally at 7:45, super late, and he was playing dominoes with his friends. We told him to meet us at the lesson in 20 minutes, and he agreed. We went to eat dinner at the house of another friend we have, Altagracia, who feeds us dinner every Sunday at 8. We thought it would be best to do that as we waited for Ruben's game to finish. We finished our massive bowls of rice as fast as we could, and we went to see if Ruben was still playing dominoes. He wasn't there, nobody was there, so we thought he was at the member's house already. We got to the member's house, and he wasn't there either. I sighed in frustration. It was now 8:30, this was our last lesson of the day, and we needed to teach an investigator with the member we were with. I was thinking so hard, and then, I lost hope.
Before I finish the story, let me back up. Right after finding Ruben, we didn't really trust that he would actually go to the member's house after the game. And since we were out of ideas, we prayed aloud to God that we would try our hardest to complete our goal, but also to help us with the things we have no control over. I ended the prayer and felt that things would work out, a real true feeling. I testify and declare, that that very prayer was answered. The very moment that I lost hope, at 8:30 in the member's house, a man, who we had never met before, walks in. I look up at him, and ask, "Hey, how's it going? Are you a member of the church? He said, "I'm here to visit my friend Zombolo (the member), and no, I'm not." I'm lost for words and look at my companion who just smiles at me. We have the lesson with him, and boom, 10/10 lessons with a member present. 10/10 new people. Double double. I promise to you, dear reader, that God is desperate to help you, just ask for his divine help, and it will come. For me, it came at the very moment I had spent all my patience and lost all hope. Just as when Peter was sinking and about to drown, Christ was there to save him. I love this gospel, this church, and being a missionary. Things happen that are not just coincidences. God looks out for his children.
Thank you all for your support, talk to you next week!
I must go -Elder Barlow
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