HE IS BACK!!!!

What a fantastic week we have had here in Anaheim! Well- kind of in
Anaheim... we got to go on three exchanges, and I left the area all
three times! I spent a day in Costa Mesa, a day in Placentia, and a
day in Fullerton, each with an awesome missionary. In Fullerton I had
a really cool experience:
So the week before last week I was on ANOTHER exchange with Spanish
missionaries in Fullerton. While walking through an apartment complex,
we met a woman named Lisa. She told us that she had recently been
diagnosed with terminal cancer, and that she would be interested in
learning more about the gospel. She didn't speak Spanish though, so
she gave us her apartment number and said the English missionaries
could come by!
Then flash forward to my exchange (now in the English program) in
Fullerton on Friday! My companion Elder Sami said we were going to go
visit a referral, except the apartment number was put in incorrectly,
so they couldn't find her. At that point, we pulled up to the complex,
and it was the same one I had met Lisa in the week before! "Wait,
what's the name of this referral?"
"Her name is Lisa, apparently she has cancer. We just can't find where
she lives."
I remembered the area where we talked to her, and so we headed that
direction. Sure enough, as we approached I saw Lisa off in the
distance walking over to her neighbor's house. I called her and she
recognized me! In short, she had read the pamphlet we left last time,
and we were able to teach her the first lesson and get her corrected
apartment number. Truly, this is the Lord's work!
Some of you might remember our golden investigator Eddie, who moved
away unannounced a few weeks ago, and left us with no way to contact
him. We were devastated. He was two weeks away from baptism.
Well as we got back together at the end of one of our exchanges, Elder
Perez hopped out of the car and sprinted over shouting, "EDDIE IS
BACK!!! EDDIE IS BACK!!!" Man, I don't know if I have ever been so
happy as I was when I heard that!
Eddie had moved to Fresno, and had tried to contact us, but couldn't
find out how. His work situation ended up not working out, so he came
back down. We are helping him go to the YSA, and he is on date to be
baptized on June 25, two days before I go home!!! Man, I'm just so
happy for Eddie. I love being a missionary. God is a God of miracles.
Our other investigators are also doing so well, and Carlos still
really wants to be baptized. Please keep him in your prayers so that
his wife's heart will be softened and he can be baptized. We are
expecting more miracles over the next two weeks!
This week is Zone Conferences, and we get to give a training on the
role of the Holy Ghost in conversion. I'm really excited because it is
a topic I am very passionate about. The Spirit is everything in this
work! Keep us in your prayers! Thanks so much for reading, I love you
all!
Elder Francis

A3 missionaries and the Storlands! It was their last Sunday in
church before they move 😫

Elder McMurray and I on exchanges