Elder Nick Fardos: From Worry to Wonderful!! One of the BEST Weeks of the Mission!!

Woowwwww! Okay, real quick, this week has been, I think, the best week of the mission!

Not gonna lie, at first I was a little worried about being in a new area with my first gringo Elder and as District Leader. But after this week holy cow!!

Okay well to start, ever since I arrived here in Girasoles and saw our investigators I realized we were just teaching individuals, none of us had families in lessons. So, I invited the District to start to pray and ask for families to teach, so that we could continue to change more lives, together. After a week and half of praying and inviting and contacting a BUNCH of people, we didn't have any families -- until we left the home of one investigator... we here 'HEY BROTHERSSS!!!' in English! We turned around and meet a man, Freddie, from Utah! He grew up in the church, is currently less active, married to a Latina, with two sons of 9 and 14 years old. And, we proceeded to go to their house and start to teach them! After the lesson elder Marx and I just about cried -- Holyyy Cow! We have so much hope and faith for this family!! The only thing is that they were busy this weekend hosting family from Utah, and so they weren't able to make it to church. So we randomly decided to visit them, just in case they were there. We stopped by, and they were there with ALL their family! And it turns out, all their family is taking lessons too!! The grandparents have a grandson on a mission in Argentina!! So we chatted, shared a good moment, and we ended up giving the grandparents a pass-along card with our names and the area on it so that they could show the missionaries that are teaching them back home. They asked us for it and they were all so excited to see missionaries here!! Hahahaha! It was awesome!!!

And then, we were headed to another lesson, and we were a little bit early, but we figured its all good, lets just go with it. So as we were walking, Elder Marx said, 'Hey, we should visit this other family'. At first, I thought 'but Dude we have this less...' and something told me naw, we should go. So we went. And yet again the family we were hoping to visit wasn't there, but the sister of the family was there with her other brother!! And it just so happens she told us that she was praying for spiritual guidance in her life just a few days ago!

AND FINALLY we were leaving an appointment, in an area super far from our house. Like 2 buses, 45 to an hour, far from the house. And the last bus leaves at like 8:45 o 9. We wrapped up our appointment at like 8:30 and as we were walking to the main road we saw the bus pass. The last bus! And well, we had two options, we could sit around and wait or to get walking, and so we started walking. And we tried to call the members, but it was Thursday night and there's Relief Society and Mutual, so literally, no member was home. So we kept walking, and I said a super specific prayer, 'Heavenly Father, please bless us with a ride'. And like not even 5 minutes later a car pulled up next to us. 'Elderes! Vamos!'

And well, as I talked with this guy, turns out he's a member whose been less active for like 6 years. We started talking spiritually and I told him that I prayed for a ride like 5 minutes before he stopped for us, and he told us that he saw us, and something told him to stop and give us a ride home. I'm way grateful he listened to the Holy Ghost!!!!

But Wow, yea, there's a lot of lessons in each of these stories, but Holy Cow! This week was full of stories and miracles just like this, I dont know, it made me reallyyyy grateful for so many things.

And well, the two gringos are killing it out here in Mexico!