Sorry i have to practice the spanish every chance i get now ;) haha How is the family doing?? Man i tell you what I am doing AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Except for a few things are making me really sad. One of them being sister rogers. :( I actually found out a few days ago. Luckily sister Daines is in my zone and i talk with her a lot. She is one of the sister trainer leaders and us as zone leaders have to work with them so, one day she brought up sister rogers and said elder ovard you and her are good friends i think you deserve to know... So she told me that sister rogers was headed home. She said she had bad anxiety and stuff and it's really sad. BUT life goes on and we will be praying for her hoping that she can make it back out!
Onto the good exciting news now :) Elder Hall and I are loving life!!! He's such a stud haha we have so much fun. Like i say each week, we are the exact same person! A couple times this week we had opportunities to BALL up some black homies in the skreet!! They were so funny! Of course we always play with a little bribery of some sort. The deal was if they lost they had to come to church. If we lost then we had to buy them a little ceasars pizza. Dont worry we knew we were going to win ;) haha jk It was so much fun though! Funny story... I was actually on an exchange one time with another missionary and some kids were out playing football. So while i was backing this missionary up in the car i said hey kids throw me the ball. I threw them a pass and they said hey you should be our quarterback. SOOOO i told the missionary to pull over and park again. He did. We played football for 10 min with the kids then we look over and the mom walks outside and was like hey white boys come here. Well long story short the mom had been watching us play football with the kids and she said i love yal for that but not only that i know you represent christ because you aint scared of us black people and you know we be family in gods eyes. Well family guess what. This family was baptized 3 weeks later :) So the whole football game worked but not only that converted a family of god back to his gospel!! It was soooo cool :)
Okay So in our own personal area in hollywood south this past week we saw some miracles! One family that we are working with right now is a family of 4. Single mother that has 2 boys and one girl. Her name is yakira. Boys names are ayden, julian and the little girl anaiah. (im naming my future daughter that by the way... a-ny-a) Anyways we love this family! They are amazing! We actually found them knocking doors. Well some sister missionaries did they passed them to us as a referral but anyways. Yakira as a single mother works super hard! She has a job but it doesn't pay too well. Ever since we met her, her biggest desire and need from god is a better job. So we been helping her. We teach her about christ, baptism, all that good stuff. She loves it. She is progressing so much. It took her awhile to gain our trust but now she opens up to us and its awesome! It's crazy how hard satan is working on her though. 2 days after yakira and her family came to church for the first time (last week) the landlord of yakiras apt. evicted her. The landlord went into her place while she wasn't home and destroyed all her furniture, beds, desks, everything. He threw all her stuff outside on the front lawn. Then next thing you know before she gets home from work that day it rains. So bye bye to all her stuff that was in her house. It was so sad. We actually found out that all of this happened because we went to see her that night and there was all her stuff outside on the lawn. We knocked on her door and no anwser. We then though it might have been her stuff. So we asked the neighbor and sure enough it was her stuff. We called her and she said she was living with her aunt until she could find a new place to live. She was so positive and happy as we talked. It was unreal. So amazing to see her still positive and loving towards not only us but her kids. Well long story short her and her landlord didn't get along well and she was planning on leaving anyways. She has money for a new apt but she just needs to find a place. So we have been out looking trying to help her find something. She is awesome though we love her. Turns out elder Hall and I actually had her and the kids over to the church this past week. 2 days after they got evicted. We had them over just to play bball with the kids and to help relieve a little stress from yakira. So we went and bought them a little ceasars pizza as well that way she didn't have to worry about dinner for the night. We felt inspired to do all this for them and what an memorable experience we had!! It was so much fun just being able to help them! Afterwards we gave them a chapel tour and showed them the baptism font and what not! They loved it and now yakira and the boys are preparing for baptism this sunday! They came to church yesterday and loved it so much! God is good and we are trusting in him to provide for them!
This past week we also met a guy named coach tony!!! haha he is legit! He coaches like a kids travel league basketball team. He has 2 sons. One being baptismal age :) Well Coach Tony is the man. He has crazy desires to learn about god and i love it. He is currently progressing and ready to be baptized this sunday as well. He came to church yesterday and loved it! Him and his boys are so funny! He was asking us last night how he can get the scriptures and all that on his phone haha so we download the gospel library app for him and how he is listening to it at work and stuff :) FUN STUFF!! I'll keep you updated with him!!
Also really cool experience! So as i mentioned when i first got here to the area our zone was struggling. Elder hall and i knew we had a lot of work to do. We have really been putting in our efforts to change the zone and let me tell you how amazing it is to see the progression happen! Like i said.. God is good!!!! This past week as a zone we had 7 baptisms. Keep in mind we had 0 and 3 like the two weeks before that. So this past week we had a goal to get 50 people in sacrament meeting! A goal that has never been accomplished here in the ft laud zone. Nor has anything or anyone came close to accomplishing. The past few weeks we had gotten like 20 and 24 people to church as a zone. WELL family guess what... This past week our zone had 38 people to church and now they are all preparing to be baptized!!!!!!!! It was so awesome to see! I love it! Helping other missionaries succeed is just the best!
Well family that is the week here in FT LAUD! Being Zone Leader has really changed my life and i love it! It's amazing the wonderful opportunites that come our way. For example some sisters in the zone were struggling with different things this past week and Elder Hall and I got called up for a preisthood blessing. It was so cool. Also tonight we have a special meeting with president anderson and the aps to talk about the book of mormon play that is going to be happening here in ft laud this week or next. So we don't know what president will want us to do with that but we'll see. Have you guys heard much about that play? I'm sure you have it's horrible. We are hoping to go there to the theater its at and hand out real book of mormons and to share our testimonies with the people that way they know the TRUTH about us as missionaries!!\
Anyways love you all and keep pushing forward. That way we may push pass the tribulations and workers of satan.... and we will eventually end up in the sacred grove!! The sacred grove that brought the truth the spirit and the purpose of life to each of us today! Love you bye!!
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