Funny: I finally got to go to the Hopi reservation on an exchange! It is by far the most interesting place I have ever been to in my life. It is situated all on the mesas and there are these ancient building stacked on top of each other. While we were there we met a man who claimed that he was traditional so he couldn't believe in our church. We asked him to explain a bit about what his traditions are and he proceeded to tell us about the white brother who came and visited his ancestors and taught them their traditions but then after he left the people traveled up here to the mesas and they met a monster who told them that they could live on the land but some of their traditions would have to change. He told us that he was not interested in following the monster's traditions but that he was waiting for the white brother to come and correct the false traditions. We almost wanted to laugh at how close he was to finding the truth. We were able to give him a Book of Mormon and testified that it does have the answers he is searching for. This story really isn't super funny but I thought it was interesting and worth writing about.
Spiritual: we had a ton of miracles on Saturday. We had our senior couple drive us out to Tonalea which is about 30 minutes into the middle of nowhere and then you turn right and drive for another 15 minutes. We went to go visit an online referral we had received. We got lost for a few hours but after some lucky guesses and asking some locals we finally found her. She is incredible, she had met with missionaries a few years ago and has been prepared by the Lord, we invited her to be baptized and she accepted. We then went to go see if we could find a member family that was hidden away behind a hill. We went to where the address looked like we knocked on the door and a guy who was not who we were looking for opened the door. He had been taught a year ago but somewhere in the midst of the change of transfers he had been lost. He had missed the missionaries but because he had no phone or way of contacting us he couldn't get back in contact so he had watched the BYU sacrament service on BYU TV every week for the past year. He also accepted a baptismal date. It was miracle after miracle that day!
Where I am at: The blessings are flowing on the rez. As a mission we set a goal a few months back of having 40 baptisms a month. We have never before been able to hit that until now. This month we are looking very very good. We are going to have 2 baptisms in our district this next week and that will make 10 in our zone this month. The best part about this is the culture change that has happened. When I first came into the mission the rez was a place where bad missionaries were banished because there they couldn't do much harm. Now the rez zones are the power houses of the mission. It is so fun and exciting to be a literal part of the Lamanite people blossom like a rose. What a great time to be a missionary! In other news we are doing great and are looking forward to another week in the best place in the world.
Spiritual: we had a ton of miracles on Saturday. We had our senior couple drive us out to Tonalea which is about 30 minutes into the middle of nowhere and then you turn right and drive for another 15 minutes. We went to go visit an online referral we had received. We got lost for a few hours but after some lucky guesses and asking some locals we finally found her. She is incredible, she had met with missionaries a few years ago and has been prepared by the Lord, we invited her to be baptized and she accepted. We then went to go see if we could find a member family that was hidden away behind a hill. We went to where the address looked like we knocked on the door and a guy who was not who we were looking for opened the door. He had been taught a year ago but somewhere in the midst of the change of transfers he had been lost. He had missed the missionaries but because he had no phone or way of contacting us he couldn't get back in contact so he had watched the BYU sacrament service on BYU TV every week for the past year. He also accepted a baptismal date. It was miracle after miracle that day!
Where I am at: The blessings are flowing on the rez. As a mission we set a goal a few months back of having 40 baptisms a month. We have never before been able to hit that until now. This month we are looking very very good. We are going to have 2 baptisms in our district this next week and that will make 10 in our zone this month. The best part about this is the culture change that has happened. When I first came into the mission the rez was a place where bad missionaries were banished because there they couldn't do much harm. Now the rez zones are the power houses of the mission. It is so fun and exciting to be a literal part of the Lamanite people blossom like a rose. What a great time to be a missionary! In other news we are doing great and are looking forward to another week in the best place in the world.
The bread thing is peko bread, imagine ash and paper put
into an edible form
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