Ye are numbered 1-27-2025

Monday we had a crazy night, after 6 we went to go proselite and it was sooo cold. We had so many tiny miracles it was crazy. One of which was where we accidentally got on the wrong bus but we made a hype friend so it was chill. We ended up missing our actual bus and got home late but that's ok Tuesday was one of my favorite days on the mission literally. My comp and I were united for like the first time ever and we had district council and zone accountability and it was sooo good. I'm gonna be honest ever since that district council things have never been the same. My comp said he overtime gained respect for me and we been on fire it's crazy. We made so many friends we made like 6 freinds, we knocked on a door and put somone on date our first time meeting him and he's actually progressing! We set up recurring phonecall lesson after work with him and so that night we had a member join in and she went crazy with her testimony and he loved it!! We also ran into a friend we met 6 weeks ago on a scooter and turns out he has been reading the Book Of Mormon so we put him on date too. It was so awesome! Then we went out with a youth made some friends and went to eat dinner at his house it was awesome. Most importantly my comp has been happy. Wednesday was wild! We didn't have anything planned in the morning so we decided to go walk around some lockout buildings and we went to go open one and some kid was coming out as I grabbed the handle. We invited him to church and got to know him and turns out he has been wanting to grow closer to God so we taught him about the covenant of baptism and the Book of Mormon and he was so down. He wanted to come to church and stuff and he happened to know our youth we went out with last night so we called him up. It was amazing!(he blocked us later in the week💀) We also met a kid named Christopher from Guatemala he's 18 and was super interested in our church and was down to come Sunday it was amazing! Kids these days are so elect! We ended up finding 8 freinds that Day and just saw so many people that God put in our path as we ran around and talked to everyone. We also had a member take us to some Thai restaurant and it was so busssss. After that he dropped us off and i had to go pee so bad we knocked on a yellow dot we havnt got in contact yet with the hopes of using the restroom and we ended up teaching somone about Baptism and almost putting them on date. My companion and I talked for an hour and he was like I respect and love you bro and I was shocked cause he admitted he didn't really appreciate or respect me at all the first transfer but he's chilling with me now. He's like actually asking me for advice and listening and applying it now and he is becoming an amazing missionary I'm like a proud father now. Thursday was intense, I was so tired I was fighting demons to stay awake in the morning. We continued to run around and talk to everyone with the focus of getting friends to Book Of Mormon class. With not a whole lot of luck as we were out and about until we got off our bus to go home and we met this guy named Moses and he was like bet I'll pull up and I'll also come to church. He was so cool! He actually did show up, he rode the bus to the church later thay night in the cold and had an amazing lesson! He is originally from France and is Muslim but we taught so powerfully the divinity of Christ and he admitted to feeling the spirit. We also ended up finding 5 friends and one of which was a lady we got off the bus with and we walked with her for a minute and taught her the covenant with baptism and put her on date for February!! She's so cool and it's amazing how the lord puts people in your paths. She was just a normal person we decided to talk to and be Bold with Baptism with and it was amazing! We had to refer her to ysa though which is sad but so many miracles! I was so tired that day, for lunch I put a pork loin in the crocopot for dinner and then I slept lol. Sometimes God is too Good. The best part of it is my comp likes me now and everything is less stressful and hard. Friday was wilddd. In the morning we didn't have to much going on, we made two freinds, one of them we called later that night and turns out shes a basher. So we dropped her. My comp started getting sick and feeling icky so we took the bus back and started walking home when we saw some dude working on a water heater outside our apartment and he's maintenence for our complex and we got talking and next thing you know we put him on Date to be Baptized. It's crazy literally so many people are ready to accept the Gospel and they are right in front of us it blows my mind each time. My comp wasn't feeling well so I made him some vegetarian burritos while he slept and then we just took a 3 hour nap. It was nice I ain't gonna a lie and he started feeling better too. So we went out haha. We got bashed by some middle eastern dude because we aren't in college right now. He was basically saying how a college degree is everything and the happiest day of his life is when he got a degree. It's kind of sad because he has a wife and kids and everything. My comp and I have seen so many miracles it's crazy. The Sisters have been struggling with finding freinds to teach this week they have only made one so they called me and asked if I could say a prayer for them so I did just that and it was a mighty prayer. That night they made 6 friends all in one hour and it was so crazy. GOD ANSWERS PRAYERS. Saturday I woke up and was like uh oh, Satan was an opp to me all day and tried getting in my head every second he could and it was hard because I was so tired from this past week it made it easier to have opposition it was bad. My number one dawg Gus turned 19 and that was amazing! So crazy I can't belive how crazy everything has been since we turned 18 and now 19. Love you bro. It was around 2:30 we had a lesson with some guy we met on the bus and it was interesting to say the least. He's an old gay white guy and he was wearing some sus clothing and had some sus concert playing on his big screen TV girls were like kissing eachother and doing wack stuff I had to tell him to turn it off it was so weird, he was a nice guy but definitely didn't leave with a good spirit. He invited us to come by sometime and have a movie night with pizza and I was like uhhh. Afterwards we were at like zero friends and I was kind of sad so we said a prayer and from then things were better. We ate at McDonald's for dinner and were able to make a couple friends. That night we had a lesson with our eternal friend and he won't get baptized because he wants a wife that Is a member of our faith but he's an old single black Guy and God has made it clear to him the past 13 years that he won't get married unless he puts God first. My comp was getting so heated on the walk back home that he wouldn't get baptized and I just tried explaining all we can do is teach him and help him read the scriptures daily and come to church consistently and God will change his desires as the scripture say and he was still mad that we can't make him get baptized. I had to like make him make a promise with me that he'll let God take care of it and rest easy tonight and he was still heated I had to like wait 10 minutes outside the house until he dapped me up and calmed down. We good though my comp is still discovering agency it's been hard for him but we chilling. Sunday was so crazy we called all 10 friends we had for church and only two were able to show up but it was such a miracle! One of them was a Muslim guy we found with a youth who was uninterested at first but we basically gaslighted him into coming to church and he loved it. Our youth was hyped to see him and it was awesome! Every day and every Sunday I would check in with my comp and see how his mental health is doing or see how he is doing in general and help him have Joy in the work. We had found 28 friends put 5 on date, got two people to church, had 5 lessons with members and he felt joy throughout the week but out of nowhere he got depressed and felt like we didn't do enough to get people to church and he always feels like we didn't do enough and it's hard for him and hard for me because I know we give our all I lay everything on the alter. He then said something that really hurt me inside and was kind of out of pocket. I won't go into details of course but we chilling now its just an emotional Rollercoaster sometimes. We then had an amazing member meal with an amazing family and got some good information on the ward and then traveled to a lesson with 3 Africa brothers it was hype! We now have two of them on Date for February,Right after that lesson we had a zoom call with the whole mission and we created a whole new stake and two new zones. The work of the lord moves forward and the gathering of Isreal is literally sweeping the earth. What an amazing time to be alive. So much has happened this week it was such a blur...One thing I will never forget is walking in the freezing cold reporting and creating records for those individuals we meet and being able to keep track of all 28 people we found and being able to number them and nurture them was someone sacred that I wouldn't have otherwise known, The Lord numbers his people and his love abounds to all of his children... 1st Nephi 17 Behold, the Lord hath created the earth that it should be inhabited; and he hath created his children that they should possess it. He ruleth high in the heavens, for it is his throne, and this earth is his footstool. Mathew 10:30 30 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered Moroni 6:4 4 And after they had been received unto baptism, and were wrought upon and cleansed by the power of the Holy Ghost, they were numbered among the people of the church of Christ; and their names were taken, that they might be remembered and nourished by the good word of God, to keep them in the right way, to keep them continually watchful unto prayer, relying alone upon the merits of Christ, who was the author and the finisher of their faith. Jesus Christ numbers each and every one of his children and as we repent and are baptized we are numbered among his sheep and called the children of Christ. Before people are even baptized, we number them and help them ne numbered. Oh how a sacred experience that is and I saw the lord magnified my efforts as I desired to account for all of them and keep accurate records. I love yall you are my people Shoutout to my best freind who turned 19 Gus Murray "Stay sweet"-Elder Williams