The Reasons Why

I won´t lie...that foto of Tylan walking into the airport was too much for me. I can´t believe he´s home!!!!
Oh yes, I know the return mission in Pocatello. Elder Mitton, he ended the mission as my AP. He´s a super cool guy, I actually plan on hanging out with him when we go down to Pocatello. And I love Elder Holland´s talk from last conference! I downloaded that the Monday after general conference just cause I could get enough of it. Elder Holland has such a commanding voice when he speaks, I love it!

My sudden change of area was a surprise, but the night of changes and all of last week made me realize instantly the reasons why. Hopefully I don´t leave anything out.

Monday night we visited a recent convert that my MTC companion Elder Trost had baptized, the Hermana Mildred and her family. I love that family! I´ll explain more on that later. Tuesday we visited another recent convert family who had been jehovah witnesses, and just to hear the mother´s testimony and how she had been sharing the gospel with literally ALL of her neighbors, I was just in awe. That night we visited a couple that we have on board for marriage and baptism, Eduardo and Jeanette. Another amazing family.
Let me start with some background on the area. For the past year San Ramon had been in a drought concerning missionary work. Not a single baptism for over a year. Then they sent Elder Trost here. He turned the area around, giving truth to my MTC teacher´s (Hermano Crane) words "Attitude makes the missionary." Elder Trost had the right attitude, and over the last 8 months there have been 33 baptisms in the area. Elder Trost baptized the Hermana Mildred and her family, she shared with me her conversion story and I have to give kudoos to Elder Trost, because he really was the only missionary who could have baptized that woman.
We spent the week finding new people and putting baptism dates left and right (we have 4 baptisms planned for September right now and we´re working for more). Our couple, Eduardo and Jeanette, were to be married Saturday (Aug 21), but Satan played his cards in trying to ruin it. First we had a back run in with mold that had infested all of our baptism clothes on Thursday. The Hermana Mildred called us at that moment of freaking out, telling us she had felt we needed help and if there was anything she could do for us. I count my lucky stars and thank the Lord for giving her that prompting of the Spirit, because otherwise we would´ve been left with NO baptism clothes for Saturday. About an hour before the wedding Saturday the lawyer called us, and gave us the unfortunate news that he absolutely couldn´t do the wedding that day. Eduardo and Jeanette had been counting down the days to their wedding, and there was no way I was going to wait until NEXT weekend for the big day. We´ve sacrificed our P-Day to get them married tonight, finalizing everything beforehand. Last night we passed by to check on the them, and luckily we did, because Lucifer had found his way back and had started to plant the seeds of doubt. I´ve said it before, I´ll say it again: I don´t know how many more times I can pour my heart and soul out in testimony. We spent a good two hours building up faith and testimony again until all was well and the wedding was back on a firm foundation. Elder Hoyt hugged me after we had left their house for joy. I guess he loved the way I bore my testimony to them. =P
Eduardo and Jeanette are getting married tonight at 7 p.m., and baptized Friday at the same hour. I ask for your prayers that they can stay firm in the faith until both these events pass.

There are so many people here I know I needed to meet before going home. So many tesitmonies I needed to hear, stories I needed to be told, and from day one in the area hasta la fecha, I´m still singing it.


I LOVE SAN RAMON!



Tu Hijo,
Elder Nunie