Elder Pilling in Antigua

  Hey everyone!!!   Wow it is already the last p day before transfers... crazy how fast time goes!  This week was super fast. I'm not even sure what we did haha but we found some good new people to teach which is exciting. On Saturday we had a stake activity and we tried to get investigators to come! It was pretty fun and we saw some good success.  This transfer, especially this week, was pretty rough for me. But this week I really found the love of God in my life and I know I'm never alone!  Elder Uchtdorf said:  “He is not waiting to love you until you have overcome your weaknesses and bad habits. He loves you today with a full understanding of your struggles. He is aware that you reach up to Him in heartfelt and hopeful prayer. He knows of the times you have held onto the fading light and believed—even in the midst of growing darkness. He knows of your sufferings. He knows of your remorse for the times you have fallen short or failed. And still He loves ...

Hey everyone!  I have a story... So two weeks ago we fasted with Darwin so he could receive an answer and guidance about the church. I was hoping he would receive an answer but I knew that it would be tough with him. He told us we felt like he needed to learn sooo much more. So we called him  Monday night  and started our fast together. I offered the prayer and felt the spirit, but didn't think much of it. We then finished  Tuesday at 1 . We were at zone conference so we couldn't finish with a prayer but he and his wife finished together. Then fast forward to last Monday. He told us, "Hey elders come to my house tonight at 6:30." We thought, "ummm he definitely has something to tell us."  Almost never do people tell us to come over haha. So we went to his house and he started telling all of God's signs he saw during the past 2 weeks. Especially in the fast. He told us hat the first word I said in the prayer he was hit with something special and powerful ...

  Wow. What a week haha.   This week FLEW by. It was so busy.  Tuesday we had our multizone conference with 75 missionaries and my companion and I had to give a 25 minute training on unity! It actually went really good and everyone loved it!! We also all got our own box of Little Caesers!! Crazy.  Tuesday night  4 elders from a different zone slept with us because there weren't any buses back to their zone. We slept two to a bed and it wasn't the best sleep....  Friday we had interviews with President Probst and that was just good. I love having interviews.  On Friday night  we had dinner with Darwin and shared a few commandments. That was a good night and we are growing closer with him and he is making steps closer to baptism!!  Staurday we cleaned a school as a service project and it was raining the whole time. Kinda fun but kinda cold too.  Then on Sunday we gave talks on missionary work!! My 1st talk in the mission... it went really ...

  Hey everyone! Hope you are all doing good!   Well we had transfers and I am now in Chimaltenango again! The same zone I started my mission in. Everyone wants to be here in this zone and I'm really excited. It was sad saying goodbye to Elder Martinez but I'm excited for this next transfer.  Before I left Mixco we had a lesson with Fabricio! It was pretty good but sad to say goodbye to them. I really enjoyed my time visiting them. I hope Fabricio can take the step and be baptized!  On Friday we had transfers and when I got to my new area - which is called Chimaltenango 1 (or chimal 1 for short) we had lessons and visits. On Saturday we had a full day and visiting people and having lessons. That night we ate tortillas de harina. Which  was like one of the best things I’ve ever eaten (picture below). On Sunday I got super sick. I had diarrhea, a fever, a headache, and was not doing good. It hit me around 12. I slept allll afternoon and it sucked. I haven't been th...

Holaaaaaaa What is UP everyone? I hope you are doing good. This week was a great week. We had a tri on Tuesday because one of the assistants came to work with us. It was a decent day.  Wednesday and Thursday we helped a member move bags of sand from the road into their house because everyone here lives on a mini road that can't fit a car. And the sand was WET. It was a good workout I won't lie but also pretty fun haha. They gave us lunch both days :) We went back to the school and had another lesson with two of the teachers. We shared about the restoration and gave them copies of the Book of Mormon.  We are setting up a time to go back. Annddd we are setting up times to teach English to the students!!!! I'm so excited to be apart of this and help them become closer to Jesus Christ!  We also prepared Kennya for her baptism on Sunday. She has so much desire to serve God and to learn more in the gospel! It was so cool to see. After her baptism she shared her testimony and it...

  Hey everyone!!! Welcome to this week's email. It's a good one… Ok so started off on Tuesday. We were walking down a street when a lady stopped us and told us she's a member and wanted us to go visit her. We told her Thursday we can go. (We will come back to her).  Then we had divisions/exchanges on Wednesday. I left my area to see what was happening in one of the other areas in the zone. That was super good.  Then I came back with Elder Martinez  on Thursday at 12 ish . We dropped off his stay- over clothes and then went to visit this lady. Her name is Flor Ordoñez and she has cancer. She lives with her youngest daughter Kennya who is 12 years old and her grand baby who is 2 (who doesn't live with the mom anymore). She doesn't have a job and is barely paying for her chemotherapy. She was baptized 15 years ago but hasn't gone to church for the past 3 years. Kennya isn't baptized yet. We shared some scriptures of hope and strength and then put a baptismal da...

Hey friends!  This week was a pretty solid week! We saw a cool miracle that I'm hoping will grow into something more!  So this Tuesday we had zone council and set some goals for this transfer! Then that night we had our english class. Pretty normal. Afterwards though the students ask us to share a message right then because in the past we sometimes did and sometimes we left for other appointments. So we shared a message.  Wednesday was my birthday!!! That was pretty fun. We just went to a nice restaurant and got a burger and a salad. Which by the way the salad was probably the best salad I've ever eaten... who would've thought it'd happen here? Thursday I had immigration  at 4:30  in the morning and then that night we had english class! It was raining pretty good and so not very many people came (because apparently you can't do anything when it rains). Afterwards, we shared a message. And then the miracle. One of the students came to our stake conference and rea...