Elder Blackham's Mission Blog: Fake Hurricane, Spiritual Fire

We were told at the beginning of the week that we were supposed to get hit with a big hurricane or tropical storm or something and where I am it hasn't rained very much but I guess in other parts of Texas it's has a lot.

Martes - Not a ton happened this day but we did have the opportunity to door contact some cool people.

Miércoles - We talked to a bunch of new people and gave away a couple copies of the Book of Mormon to some people.

Jueves- The day the "hurricane" came. There were a lot of super big black clouds that rolled in while we were out on the bikes and it started pouring on us. And of course there wasn't really anything we could do other then take shelter on someone's porch 😂😂. And so we did that and then just kept being missionaries. You never know what opportunities you might have rain or shine. But it was kinda fun to be running from house to house to get on people's porches to get our of the rain while we saw if they were home or wanted to learn about the gospel!

Viernes - The time is spiritual fire started with interviews :) President came and interviewed everyone in the zone and it was cool to have the opportunity to tell him how things are going and ask questions and stuff like that.

Sabado- Baptism!!! The Ortiz family was baptized! It was a super spiritual moment and really awesome! It's hard to describe feeling from it other than it was awesome!

Domingo - The kids were confirmed in sacrament meeting and were given super awesome spiritual blessings. The youngest one that is 7 is not old enough to get baptized yet but we were able to give him a blessing in sacrament meeting.

Lunes - We had a big mission meeting in McAllen so we all got up early to get to the meeting. Elder Piper and Elder McKay of the 70 came and talked to us. They talked a lot about how we need to be instruments of the Lord and find our mission purpose. They also did a couple hour training and talked about how we can answer our questions. They said that the best way to answer a question is to study, understand, and apply the doctrine behind the question then the question will answer itself!

A cool experience happened a couple of weeks ago. We stopped at a gas station to use the bathroom and this lady bought us drinks. We don't know why she did or who she is but she said "I see what your guys do, and how you get around on only bikes and I thought you might want these." People are super nice here and willing to help and listen (most of the time).

Overall this week I have learned that we can do hard things and that 2 Nephi 2:11 is very true. We must have hard experiences to be able to feel true happiness.