Zarahemla Week 31

Accidentally ran into Elder Clark in the mission office as he was
going home. I'm going to miss him a lot!

We've had another amazing week! Lots of miracles, and lots of work to be done! Alan, who we've been teaching for the past 5 weeks or so, is getting baptized this Saturday! We're super excited. We are going to be going to the Old Port with them today which should be fun! Here are some cool miracles we saw this past week!

Us with Alan and Erick!

We had a super cool miracle on Sunday, which really showed how much God loves all of us. We had a few appointments on Sunday evening, but many of them fell through. We went to a member's apartment to give a blessing, but he didn't answer his phone, so we decided to walk around and do contacting (we were in the Jean-Talon area where there are lots of Latinos). We were walking around, and we stopped a Latina woman to talk to her. We happened to stop right in front of the apartment building door of someone we are teaching. After a few seconds, he came out of the door. After the woman left we talked to him, and we could tell that something was off. I can't forget the look of sadness and loneliness he had on his face. We asked him what was wrong, and he just kept telling us that he was having bad thoughts, and that he just barely wanted to go outside to get a fresh breath of air. We stopped right in front of his door exactly when he went down, and he saw us and walked out. It was the perfect timing, if we had been a few seconds early or late, we wouldn't have caught him. We asked if we could go up to his apartment and talk for a little bit, so we went up. We talked for him a little bit and he just poured his heart out to us. He talked about how he had wanted take his own life. He from Columbia, and is very old. All his family is in Columbia and he is all alone. We were able to talk to him and help him feel much better. He was certain, as we were, that God had sent us to help him. He was very grateful. It was amazing to see how much the Lord cared for him that he sent us at JUST the right moment to be able to talk to him. It was a really cool miracle.

Made pizzas at one of our investigator's pizza restaurant!

Leonardo as well is progressing very well! We are going to have to push his baptism forward since he is so ready! He has felt so much peace in learning about the restored gospel, and is so excited and willing to make the necessary changes in his life to live according to what he's learned so far. He is the best!

Everything is going well, I love Zarahemla and I love Montréal. There is lots of work to do which has been the best! I love you all so much as well, and I hope you have a fantastic week.

Elder James