Another interesting week in the mission!
Howdy y'all, and hope everything is well at home! I guess we'll go down events chronologically: p-day we went and saw the Sacred Gifts exhibit at BYU, and that was spectacular. It really shows some of the faith in Christ those artists have, and how powerfully it can make us think about him. They are really testimony filled paintings. We then ran back home to get our bunkbed built, so now Elder Contreras doesn't have to sleep on an air mattress. I got top bunk though, so I'm closer to heaven, haha.
Tuesday we had lesson with a less active named Benjamin, who reminds me a lot of my cousin Andrew, except he's really into superheros. Really cool guy, gonna work on getting him the Melchizedek Priesthood. Same night we had a lesson with the Haros family (In Spanish, they come around!) on the restoration. They need to start heading to the Spanish branch, as it is far too small, and there's people that can fill it up. I also got "fired" by a less active man for showing up late to a lesson I didn't know about; he chewed me out a bit, and that was great fun!
The next day then, I woke up to hear the news that my Grandma Juliet had passed away. Luckily for me, we had planned a temple trip that morning, so I got to think it over in the temple, which helped a ton. She died peacefully in her sleep, and she is in a much better place now, and much happier too. President McCune called me to let me know, and allowed me to call my parents and Grandpa, and, since it would be in American Fork, attend the funeral if I wanted to. I will be able to speak at the funeral tomorrow. I am so grateful both for the chance I have to speak as an Elder at the funeral, but also that my Grandma saw me be out 6 months on a mission (tomorrow will be my 6 month mark exactly) and that I could make her proud that way; I'm her first grandchild to do so. Throughout the week The Lord has blessed me with tender mercies, great people, and spiritual calmness and peace, and I have been just fine. How blessed we are to have this Gospel which can afford us such reassurance, and for the blessing of the temple, for I know I will be able to see my Grandma again. I'm keeping the family in my prayers all the same though. Grandma Juliet was a wonderful person, and she will be missed!
The next day we had a great lesson (in Spanish!) with a recent convert named Hector, who is such a humble and kind man. I look forward to working more with him. We had Zone Training Meeting the next day. We have a great zone and good leaders over it. Then, I took up some visits in Eureka, which is such a neat town. I was able to visit a kind less active widow named Debbie, and I was able to share my experience with Grandma's passing as the Spirit directed, and we were able to have a great lesson. The next day we were able to attend a Family History Fair type thing, and take a couple classes to get ourselves more familiar with it, it was very interesting stuff! I need to do more of that, both on my own and with people we're teaching.
Sunday was great yesterday, saw a couple of people at church that we were hoping would come out, taught a Sunday school lesson with Benjamin, and made some splits that night to get to know the area better. Ah, being a missionary is great, but it is only made better when one is in the Provo Utah Mission, and even then when you're serving in Goshen!
The Church is true, and God lives and answers prayers!
-Elder Martin
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