Downtown Calgary at night with the Calgary Tower all lit up
Sad news this week, Nely one of Ryan's converts passed away from a stroke. Her husband survived a stroke years ago and now he is left a widower.
Nelly on her baptism day with Ryan and Elder Rudd
Que honda!?
Yeah that is pretty crazy how much time is left mom! I better step it up and take advantage of the time remaining! Thanks for all of the packages plus the ones the way!! It is so nice to get things from you and to just hear from you. It is a great morale booster for me so thanks!
This week was pretty good. Yes hard to beat a baptism week. Some sad news though to start: Nely who got baptized last December passed away on Saturday. She had a major stroke and was not going to be able to talk/walk, but she ended up dying during the night. That was pretty hard on me and I have been reflecting a lot on how precious our time is here. She was not progressing in the gospel very well, because she wasn't able to get to church much with her husband but I know she had a firm testimony. I know that she is getting a great chance now to learn a ton about the gospel and is converting other stubborn baptists in the spirit world (she was a die hard baptist so we were so surprised when she finally was baptized). I was also thinking this morning in the shower...we gotta share the gospel with Erica! I have been thinking who I want my first prospect to be back home ha. She was the first person who popped in my mind, so let's come up with a plan and get her and her family baptized! It sounds like Dad is on fire right now, so maybe he can pull some Spanish out of his back pocket and preach la palabra to her!
We had a pretty legit miracle this week. It was 8:30PM on Friday night, I was burned out from the day and just wanted to call it a day. We felt like we had to knock this one door that we were pretty sure was Spanish. We knock it and this kid around 20 answers. He goes and grabs his mom and tells us to come in because of the cold. We start talking to her and we learn that her name is Vilma from Colombia. She looks very fragile and has some visible health problems (one of those holes they cut into smoker's throats ouchhh). She tells us that we could not have come by at a better time. She was looking for God and we happened to show up. She asks us to just leave her something to read, because she had no time (she is back in school studying so she can hopefully get a better job). We ask for just 20 minutes and she lets us sit down. She has no idea about her purpose living, so we talk a lot about the plan of salvation. We fulfill our purpose as missionaries by inviting her to come unto Christ through baptism, and she says that she can't compromise her religion (catholic). It was one of the most spiritual lessons of my mission, and she felt it too. By the end of the lesson we got her to commit to meet with us again this week and to pray about what we are asking her to do. She is such a sweet lady and we both feel the Lord has prepared her to receive the gospel at this time. It is so much fun to teach people who have softened hearts, and she definitely has one. Our investigators closest to baptism, Luisa and Brandon, are seeing major opposition from her husband. We stopped by 2 nights ago and he told us never to come to their house again. Luisa definitely has interest, because when she opens the door her face lights up and she is so excited to talk to us. We fasted that his heart will be softened, so we will see what happens I guess.
Anyways I guess that is it for this week. I love you all so much and pray that you have a fun safe week!!!
Love, Elder Draper
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