Reyes family

This week had some amazing highlights and was so much fun.  First off, I was unable to chase my companion away so we will be together for another 6 weeks here, its going to be so much fun.  It was great as we got a call from a less active member, Chis who said he wanted to start coming back to church and wanted us to come visit him.  While he was their I noticed he had a bible out so it looks like he has been reading from the scriptures, which is awesome!!  We were finally able to go and see Sonja so that was a blessing.  She had a lot of concerns and questions about being cleansed from sin and about being able to keep pressing on in trials.  We are going to follow up and find out where her faith and trust in God is, she is reading and praying daily now and tells us that she can see the difference so that is amazing.  The best part of my week was last night.  We were visiting a less active family, the Reyes that just move in from another ward a few weeks ago.  I love them so much it is ridiculous, I don't know how so it must be God working through his servants.  We had a wonderful lesson and discussion, the Spirit was so strong and Brother Reyes really opened up to us and allowed us to listen to the Spirit to discern what he needs and how we can be instruments in helping him.  The Spirit was so strong their, it was almost tangible, it really allowed me to feel the love the Savior has for all of us and that he wants what is best for us.  That lesson makes me want to be more focused than ever so that we can more often work in such unity with the Spirit, it it the greatest experience of my mission old so far.  What saddened me though was that the family didn't want to go to church because it had been too painful in the past as they had not felt loved, and felt rejected, no matter how much they loved everyone around them.  So please, if you can this week just find a small way to express love and kindness to anyone, they probably need it.Wow, that sounds so much fun, I love seeing pictures, so I need to do a much better job of sending them and taking them.  The weather is cooling off and we have had some slight rain.  I am staying with Elder McDaniel for 6 more weeks so that is awesome and we really feel we need to really teach faith to all those in our teaching pool, so that should work out well.

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