August 23, 2021 - Hebrews 11:30

 Wow we had a GREAT week! A little stressful but FULL OF MIRACLES!! So first miracle was finding Jerrico and Amber. We had a lesson cancel (this was on Monday) so we stopped and prayed to know where to find someone who was ready to let God prevail. Then we just started driving and Hna Lingen would say which way to go and on the ones where she didnt say anything I felt which way to go. We ended up parking on this one way street after driving for almost 10 minutes. We got out and a couple houses down and across the street we saw a family on their front porch and we asked them if they knew anyone who would be interested in a message about Jesus Christ and the man (Jerrico) said they were interested! Then he said it was no coincidence that we were there and he knew God had sent us to help him. Hes done a lot of not the best stuff in his life but he has the DEEPEST desire to be better. So we've gone over there almost every day and taught them!! We went over to their house almost every day last week. He wants to be baptized and wanted the closest date he could do so Sept. 11th is the day!!! It was funny, we taught the 2nd half of the gospel of Jesus Christ and we invited them to pray about baptism and Jerrico was like, "So I wanna be baptized... can yall make that happen?". Ugh I love him and his wife Amber and their kids. AND THEY CAME TO CHURCH!! We had some members take them because they dont have a car right now and they are just amazing. Amber is still learning the simple things but she wants to learn. I'm just so excited. I love Galveston so so so much. 


We also got to eat the spiciest tacos I've ever had with the Arriagas- all of us were sweating haha. In the middle of our meal their fan turned on and a balloon got caught in it so it slowly just got dragged around as it got faster. I dont know why but it was so funny. We all just got quiet and just watched it. We also got to scrub paint off the floor at our friends house for 4 hours. It's the little things.

Love yall!! (Also I have 99 days left until I go home 😱😱😱)

















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