Day 15

EL DON DE LANGUAS ES VERDADERA!

(THE GIFT OF TONGUES IS TRUE!)



Wow! What an experience today! It's so crazy how the Lord blesses us with such amazing gifts!  I love this Gospel and I'm grateful for my opportunity to serve!  I can also say that each day here, gets a little bit better! Today we had a pretty chill schedule. We didn't have to be in church clothes until 12 so it was super nice to be in gym clothes for half the day! We had personal study so I dove into the "Missionaries Purpose:Chapter 1"! I learned so much and it made me feel so proud!  I am truly called of God! I'm so excited to serve! I know there will be challenges along the way, but I am going to do my best to overcome them! I'm really thankful for you guys because I know you guys are "pushing" me when I feel like something is too hard to overcome! Something crazy happened today. We were having gym time and the gym was closed so we went to the field across the street so we could actually have some type of exercise.  We (me, Fewel, Whittier, and Lyman) were all playing Frisbee and E, Mulestein, Slighting and Thompson were playing soccer.  I was throwing the Frisbee when I see Mulestein collapse! I run over there to him and all the other people playing Frisbee follow me.  I go ask him if he was okay and he was almost in tears, shaking his head no and grabbing his knee.  A nurse runs over to him (who watches us so nobody gets injuries) and starts moving his leg and he is having trouble doing so.  Story goes; 6 months ago Elder Mulestein tore his ACL and got surgery for it then was cleared by the Surgeon that on the 6th of July, he is cleared to play sports.  Today, we think he re tore it and might have to go get surgery again. :(
If he gets surgery, he would probably not end up coming back out because he hasn't really enjoyed his experience so far.  So tonight we gave him a blessing as a district and blessed him that everything is okay.  Scary Stuff!  But something happy: I WAS BLESSED WITH THE GIFT OF TONGUES!
 We were teaching our "investigator" Reynaldo and it was our first "visit".  We began talking about how God is our loving Heavenly Father. We got like 2 minutes into the lesson where I just went off about Prophets and Families and how they both are blessings in great Spanish!  I don't even remember what I said.  The spirit was so strong! So Crazy!  I already see amazing miracles happening here! I love and miss you all!
Love, Elder Garfield

P.S.
The lesson ended up being 13 minutes with a 30 % contribution from E.