Daniel and Nadia

The week that has gone by was filled with too many experiences to tell. My companion and I were brought super low for the first part of one day. We didn´t know what we were doing wrong after being rejected over fifty times in about twent minutes or less. We still went out throught the day and continued. Then everything changed and things happened like never before on the mission. People we stopped started to listen and not only that but say things like, ¨I´m busy right now but I want to talk more to you¨ ¨Why don´t you take down my number and call me anytime¨. We were then not sure what was going on. The morning was full of humble experiences and then the evening was a complete difference. Even the following days, things unexplainable started to happen.
So we found Flaminio and we taught him Wednesday and then met with him on Thursday and everything was going great. We met with him again on Friday and he even came that night to Noche de Rama. He had lost his job and had been without work for two weeks. Our biggest challenge with so many of the people we talk to is not that they don´t want to listen but they just don´t have time. Many people have two jobs and the little time they have they want to just rest. So Flaminio was a miracle. He couldn´t come to the Baptism on Saturday because he had a job interview in a little pueblo (town) hours away. We ended up talking with him and he said he got the job and would be living there and not come back for a while.
So, the Baptism of Celenia was great. I have learned on my mission that we should start meetings when they are supposed to start. How much respect do we show our Father in Heaven when we start or arrive to meetings not on time. This Baptism actually started on time and everything went smoothly. Celenia recieved the gift of the Holy Ghost the following day in Church. She has come to know the truth about what God wants for her in her life. God is waiting to bless us and it is up to us to act and recieve those blessings.
Last week we went to Gernika and the story itself is sad but when you learn that the people didn´t give up hope, it changes everything. It shows us and teaches us to never give up even when our whole city is gone and all that is left is a tree. That life does go on and we can be happy even when it was the choices of others that brought pain to our lives. We have the choice to either feel sorry for ourselves during that time of pain or endure it and reach a happiness that wouldn´t have been known if not for our endurance.
I want to end with two of the nicest people I have met probably so far on my mission. Daniel and Nadia are from Brasil. They speak portugese, english, and now spanish. Some find it not so easy to be away from home and family but when you have friends like them, everything changes and you start to see that life is full of miracles.