Well on Wednesday Elder Cook went home. I was sad because he was truly a great companion! We had an amazing 3 months working together and reflecting back on it I am so grateful.
We have been sooo busy these last 7 days. I have barely had a chance to stop and catch my breath but today is a great day to rest a little bit.
So there are two stories that I would like to tell this week.
#1. Remember the story that I told about the family that we are teaching, the mom that had a kidney problem. Yeah, so after I wrote about that story last week we were able to return and talk more about the experience. She told us that when the doctor told her that she didn't have a defect in her kidney anymore she was so happy and told the doctor, "it must be the young men that are praying for me". The doctor asked "which young men?" and she explain that she was listening to the LDS missionaries. He proceded to tell her that he was LDS also and that she should keep listening. So a few days later after praying for more direction in her life, she got a call from the Doctor. He had recieved the impression to call her but he didn't know why. She took that as an answer:)
#2. On Saturaday night the first counselor in the bishopric let us know that we were going to be asked to speak the next day, so I started to pray to know what the Lord wanted me to speak on. In the morning I planned out that I was going to speak on following to spiritual impression to build faith and become aninstrument in the hands of the Lord. I thought about some of the many experiences that I have had in my life related to this theme, but then I started to think, it does't matter what I have done in the past, It matters what I am doing now. So I stopped thinking and started listen....only an hour before church started we were farther away from our church building because we had to stay in the offices the night before, in that moment the impression came "don't take public transportation, walk to the church." We didn't know why but we followed the impression and started what is at least a 45 min walk. Not even 5 minute into the walk we saw a lady that looked lost. She came up to us and asked us what church we were from, we responded and she said " I am looking for a church here close by that some handsome young men invited me to and gave me a beautiful book. So, as she told us why she loved the Book of Mormon that the missionaries had given her, we walked back to the mission office with her which is the church building where the other missionaries go. If we hadn't listened to the spirit she would have given up, having already looked for 20-30 minutes. She was about to go home when we should up. just 40 minutes later I was able to share the experience with the ward in my talk and testify, that we are nothing but instruments in the hands of the Lord! (1 Nefi 9:6)
My new companion is Elder Romero from ciudad de juarez chihuahua. I am really excited for these next couple months. I really am going to miss my old companion Elder Cook because we got along really well and he was a really fun missionary! Today we are not doing much because the past 7 days have been packed. We are just cleaning our bedroom in the offices and then we are going to go back and clean up our house. To answer your questions, Monterrey barley got hit by the hurricane but it was rainny for a few days.
So this transfer the area presidency changed the way all the assistants in Mexico are going to do the intercambios with the zone leaders. Instead of one of us going to their area and one of us staying in our area we are going to both work in our area. That has the purpose of our area being the example area of the mission! I feel really excited because we are going to see a lot more time in our area and help the people there more. We are going to have some baptsims coming up pretty soon. I will let you know more as they get closer!
Love you family! hope you are doing as well as you sound!
Elder Quist
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