Keep Going, God Will Deliver You

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Hi friends!


This week I have learned several tongue twisters in Spanish! They are very difficult put fun to listen to! I'll include them in the email today.  If you have any cool tongue twisters (in any language) that you want to test me with, please send them my way! I'll try to learn them as best I can!!!


This has been an interesting week! First of all! Two amazing members who have helped missionaries tremendously - Karen and Melissa, have officially left the country and moved on to their new homes. I'm extremely sad to see them go, especially since they have helped us a ton with visiting friends and finding meals when our pensionista is out-of-town.  I wish luck to each of them and hope they have success and happiness in their new homes!


We visited each of them to say goodbye, and spent a bunch of time visiting new people over in one of the bordos that I don't usually visit. It's fun to go there, but it's pretty far (comparatively speaking) to the chapel and would be difficult to get people to come to church with us!  


At the very least, we had more success over there than over in La Bogran!!  We decided to dedicate time to locating inactive members and previously-taught people in La Bogran, but we had NO success in tracking them down!  All the streets and house numbers were numbered in a weird way and we were completely lost, and NO ONE was any help either!  When we resorted to knocking doors and asking where we were, people would just wave their finger at us, signalling: We're not going to even TALK to you, so get out of our street!


It sure was disheartening, but after long enough, we finally found some people friendly enough to talk to us and tell us what street we were on!  The next time we visit La Bogran we will try to find our friends again, this time on the RIGHT street!


Several times this week I was feeling disheartened and anxious, but there always came some event to make the day a little brighter, and that made me happy.


This Sunday we had Ward Conference, so we went around inviting people to prepare for this special event, and, guess what!  NO ONE came to church!  Not even the recent converts that always go to church!  While it's sad that that happened, I had to laugh because its ridiculous that no one came (for the first time ever).  The talks the Stake President gave were amazing, and some inactive members did end up going to the conference which was good!


We were also able to enjoy some delicious food this week, from Ice Cream to Pizza to Mexican Tacos! I was in heaven!!!


Right now we're having a zone activity, playing table-top games like Pool and Pong. I'm on a chair writing this email and enjoying my day.  Sometimes you just need a moment to unwind and enjoy the fact that we're alive. Life's good!  Guys, please keep doing the things necessary to have the Holy Spirit with you and to enjoy the blessings of the gospel! 


If you guys want something to do, then please read the Book of Mormon, or find something interesting in the gospel library app to research.  This week I discovered a section in gospel library to help people recover from addictions, the videos there are super interesting, and this stuff can really help some of the people we're are teaching. 


Shout out to my siblings who just barely finished the school year! I love you guys, and enjoy your summer!


नमस्ते


- Élder Grant








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