Week 76

1/11/16

Hi Family!!  I hope you all have been having a great week!!

Everything is great here :)  I am really enjoying my time here in Ventura.  It is a very beautiful place full of really great people who are ready to be baptized.

Well, yesterday our Spanish branch was made into a ward, the San Buenaventura ward!!  It was so cool to be there for this special moment.  They have been a branch for more than 15 years and all the members and missionaries that have worked there have worked so hard to make it to this moment.  The chapel was almost completely full of members and friends who were there to support.  When we sang the sacrament hymn I felt a really special Spirit listening to all these people signing together.  It sounded like and felt like the angels from heaven were there singing and celebrating with us there :)

Salvador came to church again and I really progressing!  He met Presidente Felix (our mission leader) and Salvador invited him to his baptism!!  It was so cool!  He hasn't had coffee for the 2 weeks that I have been here, and I can see that he has really grown spiritually.  He is letting Christ is his life and letting the Atonement of Jesus Christ change him.

We had exchanges this week and I stayed in Ventura with Hermana Peterson.  It was a great day guided by the spirit.  It was so cool!!  We were walking and I saw a door on the other side of the street and I said, "there" and we went and found a 17 year old girl, who at first said she didn't have time, but after a little bit of talking, she said that she really didn't have time right now but that we could come back next week :)  The day was full of similar experiences where we both felt guided by the spirit.

We are seeing so many miracles :)

I found a scripture yesterday while studying the Book of Mormon.  It is in Mormon 9:22

For behold, thus said Jesus Christ, the Son of God, unto his disciples who should tarry, yea, and also to all his disciples, in the hearing of the multitude: Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature;

I know that it is our responsibility to preach the Gospel and it makes me so happy that I can have this time where I can dedicate all my time to do so.  I invite you this week to prayer and think of who you can share your testimony with.  I know that there are someone waiting for you.  And I know that the angles of heaven will help and guide you :)

- Hermana Cuevas Da Silva ♥

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I found Baby Jesus in the Rosca.....like always!