Hey there everybody!
this week was awesome! First off, we helped the Vegonte (Not Viguni, I have been spelling it wrong this whole time) family to receive the restored gospel, through faith, repentance, baptism, and receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost. Now, we are helping them to endure to the end! We had a wonderful baptismal service for them and the confirmation went amazing as well. They were able to really feel the Spirit and I know they were so excited to receive baptism and confirmation. They are an amazing family and it was a great experience teaching them and helping them to receive this gospel! I know however that it was the Spirit who really helped them to know that this gospel is true, not us. Elder Limocon and I were just saying how we were so grateful for this family and especially how they were just so receptive to everything. Then we realized that it was because they were reading the Book of Mormon everyday, praying, and coming to church every week. In other words, they were able to feel the Spirit, and receive a witness taht these things are true, and not just because the missionaries said so. I love the Vegonte family a ton and I am so excited and happy for them to receive the blessings from the gospel! This past week I was able to go on exchanges with Elder Proudfit. He's a brand new missionary from Arizona who's being trained by one of the District Leaders in our zone, and I got to work with him for a day. It was awesome working with Elder Proudfit. It reminded me of the days when I was training and knew absolutely nothing! He was an awesome comapnion for a day though and even though he didn't think so, I was able to learn a lot from him. The think I took away the most however was just about being simple and powerful in the lessons. He would teach super simple because his Tagalog only allowed that, but everyone we taught were able to understand and feel the Spirit, and that is what's most important. I was happy to work with Elder Proudfit and hope I get to work with him again. I love this work and this zone. It is go great being in the Narra zone and being able to help these wonderful missionaries to fulfill their purpose. I know all these missionaries are great and i just pray they continue to be exactly obedient and diligent so that we can witness miracles!
Elder Stephens
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