{8.22.16} 15!

This week was filled with so many miracles. We found 15 new friends that we started teaching this week. We got blessed so much! 

Tendrick came to church again. He loved it. Sacrament meeting was really spiritual, because a recent convert, Sis Elvira, spoke. Since being baptized, she's faced more trials with health, her kids,jobs, family, deaths, then most people face in an entire lifetime. She's stayed SO strong in her testimony throughout the whole thing. But recently things have been getting even harder for her, so before she left for church (after finding someone to watch her daughter who just got chickenpox), she said a prayer, and in her own words kind of "challenged" God, for the 2nd time in her life, and basically said, "if you're still there, and you're still in control, I need a sign." The 1st time she said that prayer, the missionaries showed up to her door. The 2nd time was yesterday, before her talk, and Elder Hayward--the missionary who first knocked onto her door--surprise visited the branch to come hear her give her talk. It's a huge testimony that God is involved in EVERY detail of our lives.

The Reyes family, from the Bronx, are so cool! We've been teaching them and they're progressing really well. Ed is eating up the Book of Mormon. His wife is loving having us come over as well, but she's really busy with the 3 kids and she's 8 months pregnant, so she hasn't read as much, so that's our big focus with them this week so that she can receive a sure answer from God that this is what He wants for her. They had to sell their Car in order to move into their new house, so they were going to sacrifice and pay for a cab to get to church yesterday. we stopped by and they were all dressed up, but for some reason they didn't show up! We were a little discourage, because they were so committed and ready to go when we stopped by before. We stopped by after church, and Ed came outside, still dressed in a white shirt and tie. You could tell he looked frustrated, and he told us sorry, and then explained how long his wife took to get ready, and then she redid all of the girls hair, etc, and then turned to us and laughingly said "can you teach me how to have patience living in a house with 4 girls?" We all laughed, and set up a game plan so the whole family can get rides with members next week.

We found a lot of other cool people as well. CP is jamiacan, and used to be a cab driver up in NY. He used to deal & use heavy drugs about 15 years ago, and found God and turned his life around with the help of a local church. He found us through a church campaign. We taught him about Joseph Smith and the 1st Vision, and he's already read a lot in the Book of Mormon. He's a truck driver and was up in Atlanta this week, but he called us why he was driving and wanted to ask if he could come teaching with us next week. He's solid!

We also found the Ward family. I honestly don't know how many are in the family... there's uncles, aunts, cousins, then L & R (the parents) and all their sons. They haven't been taught very much, but they're coming to the Church wednesday for a chapel tour and are excited to learn more! they mostly want a strong family centered on the Gospel of Christ.

There's a lot of other people as well, but that's about all I have time to write about this week. It's so true that the plans of God cannot but frustrated, only the plans of man. His plan is always superior, and his grace is sufficient. 

Have a great week!

Elder Juanes

Elder Jace Johns

Florida Fort Lauderdale Mission

7951 SW 6th Street, Suite 110

Plantation, FL 33324