God Knoweth His Children!

#31

Hello everyone!

Hope your weeks have been great! Mine has been superb so far! There is not much to report of this week so far due to my email on Saturday but I'll fill you in on what's happened the last couple of days because they have been like stellar days!

Sunday: September 18th, 2016
Alessia walked up to us today and asked if we would baptize her! She is the only non baptized member in her family and she finally had an experience with the Spirit testifying of the truth of the things she's been learning at church and other youth activities. It was a tender mercy of the Lord! We haven't had time to work but we were able to be blessed! Literally one of the best moments a missionary can have and it made it a great Sunday! She'll be getting baptized on October 8th, 2016! 

Monday: September 19th, 2016
Full day of accounting again and we also had a sweet revelation come to us and President as we finished up our accounting and planning for Zone Conference this week. The most I'll share is that we had a number come to mind and we have created a plan and movement to achieve it. #31 More information will come as it opens up!

Tuesday: September 20th, 2016
We had exchanges today and I got to work with Elder Green again and we had a sweet day. I got to bring my inner office elder out for a bit and help him create some graphs and presentations for his Stake Correlation notes which was pretty fun. Following that we went and saw Graham and went through a member missionary work initiative to help him fulfill his responsibilities as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. It went super well and then we had a great dinner at Peri-Peri. After dinner, we went to teach Alessia and wow... my testimony of God knowing His children has increased as of last night even more. We went in originally planning to teach the plan of salvation and then the Spirit said to teach about the Book of Mormon and how reading it and abiding by its precepts(trying what it says) would draw her connection to God more. Little did we know that is what she needed! She even said the closing prayer which was amazing because she was nervous and shy about doing so in front of people but she was able to do it! It felt so good to teach finally after such a long time of just meetings and planning. Grateful for the experience tonight taught me.

Wednesday: September 21st, 2016
Honestly... I'm so exhausted today. Elder Cloward ended up coming down with a crazy sinus infection and so we've been doing what we can to help him and keep things easy today to rest up. Nothing to much happening today! Just a lot of rest and preparation for a long weekend of exchanges in the western zones!

Verse of the Week:
2 Nephi 1:15
"But behold, the Lord hath redeemed my soul from hell; I have beheld his glory, and I am encircled about eternally in the arms of his love."

-Love,

Elder Rivera