Well yesterday I received a call from the missionaries where they asked me if I wanted to go out today on a missionary experience. And of course I went!

I wanted it to feel like the real deal so I put my cell phone alarm clock to go off at 6:30 am. I wasnt sure what to read so I just jumped into random scriptures but nothing seemed to be appropriate for what I needed to say tomorrow. It got late really fast so I decided to give it up and wake up early so I could wake up early and find something more spiritually appropriate in the morning.

It is 6:30 am and the alarm goes off... it hit the snooze button and then put the phone on silence so it wont bother me again... and I can asleep for a few more minutes. I overslept one and a half hours. so I jump out of my bed and hurry to take a shower. I go out and get ready. Then I seek for the spirit to guide me on what I should study for the day and I ask for the power to speak the words and answer the questions that I will be asked.  After I was done praying a waited for a couple of minutes for any prompting on what to study for. Nothing came not even a chill. I let a few minutes pass and still nothing. so I wait for 20 minutes and still nothing. I then decided it was enough waiting and I should get to study something. I grabed Preach my Gospel and I decided to study the 1st lesson which is the the Restoration. after I am done I check that if my back was ready;

    Book of Mormon: Checked

    Bible: Checked

    Hymn Book: Checked (the missionaries love to sing)

    Preach my Gospel: Checked (I dont know why I took that book, it made the backpack heavier)

    Notebook, watter bottles, pen, pass along cards, Camera, Sun Block, Hand sanytiser, air pump, and keyes: Checked

    Libro de Mormon and Biblia: Missing

    Rayos! now I have to go to the chapel and get the scriptures in Spanish. That would take about 15 minutes. So I grabed my backpack and took it to the Jeep and... my bike?! How do I take my bike now? I had no bike rack and I needed it to go out! no way! this couldnt be happening to me!

I had to figure out someway to fit the bike inside the little jeep. I took out the back seat and moved the passenger seat all the way to the front. and stuck the bike(somehow) inside the jeep but I forgot to tie it for safety(or more like I neglected to tie down the bike because of time shortage). Now on my way to the chapel I hit a bump and the bike jumps and lands on its tires. but it doesnt do it smoothly and the handle bars almost hit me in the head. So I took it slowly from then. finally I arrive where the missionaries and I were supposed to meet and I take down the bike, lock the Jeep, and feel ready to preach the Gospel. a few  minutes pass when the missionaries call me and say that we will have to meet somewhere else. oh dear now I had to stock the bike back inside the jeep and rendevouz at the new location. Ok finally I arrive at where the Mish car is located but there is no one there. I park and take out my bike and ride around the neighborhood looking for the missionaries and I find them reaching an old man. So I joined them.

    The man was having a Garage sale and some costumers decided to show up because they saw all the bikes and thought they were for sale lol. well we ended up talking a little bit about the gospel to the costumers and I gave one pass along card (Woooo my first pass along card!). we ended the lesson and go on our way to find the next person. We find a lady that is working on cleaning her yard because of the mess Hurricane Dolly left at her home. Fallen trees and grown weeds. it didnt seem like a big deal but it was too much to clean up for the lady to do it by herself. so I offered help from the church (Elders Quorum to be more precise) to come down to her place and help remove all the mess. Now I need to motivate the EQ to do it. We talked with her for a little while and I invite her to church and she says she will go. The missionaries took over from there.

    Again on our way down the road we see this guy who is picking something up and loading it onto his truck. we talked to him for a few minutes but he refused to go further into the lesson. We are now going to an appointment where the investigator lives like a gazillion miles away from where we parked our cars. and a little over half way the road one of the missionaries says she is a little tired so we stopped to rest and rehydrate for 5 minutes. after she was done we all got up and were about to continue the Senior companion asks in general if we should keep going or if we should go back. I urge them to keep going because they had already set the appoinment and it would be rude not to show up and I reminded them that we should go the extra mile. She looks at me for a while thinking something, and then tells me that we should pray. She asks me to offer the prayer and I do. after a while I finish but she is still on prayer. I look towards the road the leads to the investigator's house and then I look back towards our starting point. none of them are in sight. and again I looked towards the investigators house (assuming it was all the way straight) and I had a feeling of doubt. I was doubting my decision to go to the house and I asked my self "why? if it is the right thing to do." and I looked back on the road towards our starting point wondering why we should go back. Then I noticed the Junior companion making a phone call. she was calling the house of the investigator. and she found out that the investigator was not at her house therefore dropping the appointment. The Senior companion looks at me and then looks at the other two missionaries and tells us "Then we should go back."

    To make a long story short we contacted about 15 or so new people on our way back to the starting point, we gave one book of mormon, I shared my testimony about Joseph Smith on the "right moment" and I talked about the Restoration of the gospel. Exactly what I had studied for!

    I felt bad for a while for questioning the prompting of the spirit. I was trying to understand why we shoudnt go through with the set appointment and instead just head back. But now I have learned that I must do as it tells me. I will not doubt again what the spirit tells me to do.

    After the day was over I got home and I knocked out. I woke up again a couple of hours ago and had a tremendous headache and a high fever. The sun affected me a little but now I am feeling better so ready for church!

I am still kind of tired so I am gonna head to bed now.

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