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I trust I shall shortly see thee, and we shall speak face to face

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Hello! So yeah, sorry for not writing an email in over a month haha, but it has been a good one. In the last few weeks of May, we covered both the Bambang 2nd branch and the Almaguer branch until the new Elders arrived there, and after they arrived, we also had exchanges with them in Almaguer to help them out as they open the area back up, so it was fun to see the people I met and came to love a year ago. During this time, we were also preparing Aristotle for baptism, and on the first week of June, he and his son, Kiel, got baptized together, which was a super sweet moment, especially since his wife's boss let her come home for the week of their baptism before heading back abroad (she's a member of the Church, and she works abroad in a different country). It was originally just supposed to be her son getting baptized on that day since he turned 8 years old, but once we met the family, we taught Aristotle over the few months that his wife was working abroad so that he too woul...

San Jose week 2

phone, but here's how my week went: Tuesday is Taco Tuesday for us here. We have District Council each Tuesday morning, and afterwards, we all get tacos for lunch, so it's pretty fun. Later, we mainly just did finding/contacting, and we nearly met our weekly goal for finding people in that one day. On Wednesday, we had a couple meetings at the mission office, and later we were finding/contacting again. A few miracles happened today. For one, I randomly swerved to the right on my bike once, and an apple fell right where my head would've been. We didn't have helmets yet, so I was definitely protected in that moment. For another, we met someone right when they pulled into their driveway, and they were willing to listen to us teach them right there on a spot. We were even able to ask if he would be willing to meet with us again and prepare for baptism, and he said yes. He was just super humble and willing to let the Spirit speak to him, which led us to be inspired to tal...