May Day!!

Hi family!!! Can you believe that it is May already?? I can`t! It`s
crazy how time flys!! This week has been good! We have had so many
blessings this week! First- Jonathan and Lady are a couple we were
teaching a few weeks back but they weren`t very interested but we ran
into them last weekend and they said they wanted us to come and visit
them! So we went and they are super excited and want to learn more!
They have a little boy and they just found out they have another one
on the way and they want to start coming to church! They are from
Colombia and have the most awesome accent ever! I love it! haha And
the miracle is that they are married!! They only couple we are
teaching that is married! Woo! It`s a huge process to get people
divorced and married to the person they are living with so we are so
blessed with them! And being from Colombia it`s next to impossible to
get married here. So please pray for them! Next- a girl in our ward
brought her friend Sasha to church with her and afterwards we went to
teach her and holy cow she is so amazing! Her heart is so prepared for
the Gospel! She is 17 and lives alone but she is just so happy and so
excited to learn!! I`m so excited for her!! Next- I had such a great
little personal revelation in one of our lessons. We were talking
about faith and we read Alma 32:27. I had been memorizing that
scripture earlier in the day but it didn`t hit me until in this lesson
that I had experimented with this scrìpture and I know it`s true! I`m
not exactly sure how it is worded in English.. something like and
exercise a partical of faith, no more than a desire to believe let
that desire work within you. Anyway the past few weeks have been a
rollercoaster dealing with stress and anxiety and butterfly feeling in
my stomach that I do not like at all and made it so so hard to focus
and concetrate. But I would pray everyday for the Lord to give me the
peace and comfort I needed and even though I felt like it would never
end I just trusted in the Lord, that I had something to learn from
this and little by little he healed me. So slowly that I didn`t even
notice it until I woke up one day and realized I was excited for the
day and I didn`t feel nervous at all! And I was so grateful in that
moment to realize the love the Lord has for me and that prayers are
heard. I don`t know if that makes any sense to you but it was such a
great eye opener. Yesterday though started out not so great. Saturday
we went to visit Manuel and Maria because we are teaching his 4
cousins who are also so open to the gospel and are such a blessing to
us! They have a date for the 28th of May but their parents want them
to wait longer so pray for them too! Anyway we went to their house and
Manuel wasn`t home yet so Maria called him and then she passed the
phone to my companion and he said he was still in Quito so he wouldn`t
be home for the lesson. So she hung up and we started talking and all
of a sudden Maria started crying and said Manuel is drinking! So my
companion called him back and asked if he was drinking and he said he
was and she told him to leave now and come home! We couldn`t wait for
him to come home so we told Maria we would come by to pick everyone up
for church. Anyway Sunday morning we were walking to their house and
we found Manuel totally wasted in the street with Maria, his cousin
and his little boy standing around him. He didn`t go home the night
before and he wouldn`t go home with them. So we picked him up and
helped him home, left him in bed and took everyone else to church. It
was the saddest moment ever in my mission. Maria was crying and
crying, one of his cousins didn`t want to go to church and it was jsut
so sad. But the bishop went to see him after church and we went to
visit him last night and he feels so bad and so repentant- if that is
a word- but he doesn`t want to withdraw himself from the church so
that is so so great! So everything turned out good but it was so
heartbreaking to see him like that and to see how sad his family was.
But we have the Atonement that can heal all! Thank you for
everything!! I love you all!!! xoxoxXo
Love forever and always,
Hermana Nelson