Don't have a whole lotta time to write something down this week, but I'm alive, still kicking it in Seattle! I love this area, the members, the work, all of it. It's getting tougher to find Hispanics cause they literally hate the cold so if they aren't working, they're inside...not great. Except when we go knocking, but that's rare cause literally almost every apartment in Seattle is locked.
Bus finding goes crazy tho, we've got so many contacts on the Bus, plenty of wild ones preaching about the devil and how he's got a grip on everyone. All in Spanish, so my bashing vocabulary expanded quite a bit.
A crazy awesome spiritual experience after church on Sunday! To lay out the scene, give some context, we have this recent convert family, the mom and dad have been baptized and right now we're just working on the daughter. So the young women's leader invited us over to her house with a buncha other members and we ate GOOD. I was forced to eat 3 hamburgers, fried shrimp, steak, and the best guac I've ever had. So after I was absolutely fried from food we sat on the couch, did a few mind puzzles, and then we started the lesson. Going into this I had absolutely no clue what I was going to share, cause there were so many different types of people there, but I also wanted to focus on the daughter to progress her towards baptism, and so we sat down, said a prayer, and I got filled with one of the strongest spiritual impressions of my life. We taught the gospel of Jesus Christ, without any previous preparation and all the members were sharing their conversion stories. Different people cried at one point or another, I was on the verge of tears at the end when everyone was bearing their testimonies, and we closed off the lesson with everyone smiling, feeling the spirit so strong. For sure one of the most spiritually uplifting experiences on my mission.
The Holy Spirit is truly the greatest gift from God. To be able to feel the love of Christ through the spirit, makes decisions so much easier, lightens our load, let's us know we're not alone. I testify of it's power, and how it is accessible to everyone, if we want it. We just have to obey the laws God has given us. That's it! I love this gospel and all the blessings that come from it.
That's it, bye.
Elder Blankenbiller
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