Elder Benjamin Michael Conover Mission Blog : Week 86: Pushing Along

Hey guys!

This week was pretty hard, but we did also get to see some really great miracles.

First off, last week we got to get together as a zone, and we made tacos and played soccer. During the soccer game, Elder Sosa kicked the ball super hard, and over the wall, so I went with another Elder to go find the ball. Well, I ran into a tree while going for the ball. It wasnt that bad, but it just hurt my arm (See Funny Section).

This week there was a huge storm that hit my mission, that I guess broke a bunch of stuff because it was hailing big chunks of ice. We were in the street that day, and all of the sudden, these clouds came out of no where and it started raining. We got soaked, but we quickly made it to an investigator´s house. We taught her, with her son, but then it started hailing really hard. Like dangerous hard, so the son went out to go take care of their grandma in the house next door, leaving us alone with the investigator. So, we waited until the hail stopped, and then we went running through the rain to try to make it to the pension. We got soaked. And the area got hosed. The street that we live on literally turned into a river, and pushed a car into the Acequia and everything. It was nuts. There are also some good sized dents in some cars.

This week, we also got some brutal rejection. The rejection here is not fun, since in this area, about 75% of the people ignore us, wagging their fingers when we try to talk to them. It isn't that fun when it happens haha.

But, this week we saw a big miracle. Last week, we stopped a woman in the street, and we went to her house the same afternoon, and they accepted baptismal dates in the first lesson. Her name is Gladis. Well, come to find out, Gladis is good friends with a woman named Graciela, who just got baptized this last week, and I got to do the baptismal interview! It was amazing! Gladis was going to go to the baptism of Graciela, but she got REALLY hurt in her back, and it sent her into a crazy amount of physical/emotional of pain.

So, here come the Elders. We went over to Gladis´ house to give her a blessing. We got to give her the blessing, and then we left. A few minutes after leaving, she told us that she had been healed physically and emotionally, and told us that as we put our hands on her head, she could feel a calming feeling come over her. It was amazing!

Overall, this week was pretty challenging for us, and I am really just feeling insufficient. But, I know that God lives, and he loves us, and I am grateful for that!

Funny

After I ran into the tree, I had a bruise on my arm, which was pretty sore. Well, Tuesday, we stopped a woman in the street, and she was rejecting us, but she wanted to do it in a loving way, so she grabbed my arm, and then started to pat me (yes, I felt as uncomfortable as you do reading this), and she happened to pat me like 10 times right on the bruise. That was fun.

I love you all!

Elder Conover

This is Leandro! He is a member from my first
area, and he has been in my zone for 3 weeks,
because an elder from our zone went home.
I havent seen this kid for over a year!