Tuesday we had a fairly good district meeting, and we went back to the city and managed to set an appointment for today for the doctor stuff. But we also were able to pick up the studies that they did on my head and back. I can´t exactly translate them or make it out, but basically, I can make out that there´s nothing wrong with my head, but there is something wrong with my back, I just don´t know what it is or how bad it is. We´re going back again today and the doctor will give me the breakdown.
Wednesday was good, we had to do Weekly Planning in the afternoon though, cuz Cafayate told us that they might need baptismal interviews Thursday, which means that travelling is gonna take way too long and we´re not gonna be able to do it Thursday. And we did a really good weekly planning session. We took a leap of faith and started planning for two people to get baptized this week. And we had some pretty direct lessons this week. Both really spiritual, but when we came out of them, they were really committed to read the book of Mormon and pray to see if it´s true so they can get baptized. It was pretty cool.
Then Thursday was a curveball, cuz turns out they´re not gonna have baptismal interviews. But then, at night, they say they do, so Friday we´re gonna do the interview by phone :/
Friday we had interviews with the mission president in the morning. Went pretty well, then we stayed in the city and had lunch and then did some baptismal interviews with the elders in the Santa Ana area, then we did a Tormenta Blanca in Santa Ana, ending it off in an Ice Cream shop, it was pretty fun. Doing baptismal interviews by phone is not fun though.
Sunday was AN ADVENTURE. So, we had lunch with a member in a little town like 30 minutes away from our main town, but still in our area. So we are coming out of church and we see a storm coming, with lightning and everything. We don´t pay it much attention. But as we´re headed on the highway, the storm wall hits us. Fierce wind, torrential rain, and hail the size of quarters. Not to mention the pieces of broken tree. We are pushed into the bank and are stuck in the mud for a while.
For a small moment, I thought "oh, so this is how I die." But then I snapped out of it and I say a prayer, just started reading Ether in the book of Mormon again, so I put in as much faith as I could muster, and after a few moments, the hail stopped and the wind died down. It still storming, but now we can get out without fear of getting pelted or torn away and push the car out of the bank. We also find out that three trees fell in the middle of the road, and if we had been just a little faster or a little slower, we´d have been flattened.
And, when we get to lunch and get out and get a proper look at the car, we see that it is undamaged. All that hail didn´t damage it. It was a miracle, really, It was so cool how we were protected.
I just want to share with you all the power of faith and how it really does work miracles.
I love you all,
Elder Blaylock
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