Progress in Paradise!

5/8/17 Another week down, and yes this week was different from the others- was it better? no haha but i definitely 

learned a lot from this week, so ill go ahead and describe what happened. We entered this past week with 4 

investigators that were solid, and others who were looking good to be new investigators... and then some 

stuff happened, no one had time, nobody answers their phone and really I feel like we just got abandoned... 

so now we have the same family that we started with and no one else... FUN. During all of that the stress was 

fun to deal with and on top of that contacting was super hard, pretty much only finding people who wanted

 to discredit the church and us... so yeah, kinda rough but to be honest, I'm not that frustrated about it. During 

that whole time I definitely was frustrated, especially with myself because of this random wave if failure... but

 in the end I really can see how this was what I like to call a "learning week". I've had many of these during my 

time here but I'm not very good at recognizing them. What I actually learned was based mainly in faith. i read

Ether 12 and Hebrews 11 and it just opened my eyes. Enos also is awesome to read about faith, and before i 

really thought that faith was 99% action and 1% trust. but really there's a lot more trust to be had. I really 

encourage anyone reading this to read those scriptures, and to also look for others that may be referenced if 

you may be having a hard time, because he is always there, and if there are trials in your life, it is because he loves 

and trusts you to be able to overcome them. The things that happen in life really do happen for a reason, and every

opportunity like that is a chance to grow and learn, to ultimately become like him. I hope you all have a great week 

and I'll see you all next week on Skype! -E Grover

(Jordan's district- mostly Latinos, and a shot of the Moyobomba area)

5/15/17 Well, to put this week in one word, it'd have to be: Searching. Now one can apply this in several ways so I'll go ahead and explain. Really, we spent most of our time searching for new people haha because like I explained before, we have no one  who really is progressing. So that meant a lot of contacting, but really we focused on the members, because there isn't a better way to find people than through the members! So that's a whole process that should produce good fruits, but there's another way we've been searching that I haven't explained. Really I've been searching for my talents, and not the talents that are obvious, like "being tall". The ones that you need to find and develop... we had a lesson in Sunday School about talents, and it made me think, What are mine? So I've decided that I need to find and give it my all to develop my talents in order to move the work forward. May sound kinda corny but I don't care. To me it sounds like fun and like a challenge. So onward with that!

Ill go ahead and share an awesome scripture with you guys now because I have nothing else to say! (way to go gringo) MORMON 9:27-28. If we ask, he will comply, but make sure it is for a righteous cause! love you all, have a great week! -Elder Grover

P.S. HAPPY MOTHERS DAY 

(Jordan's picture is what he took during Skype... of us!)

5/22/17 Yes we finally are seeing some progress here in paradise! Firstly the family that we've been working with forever got married and now they have a green light for baptism, hopefully that happens this coming weekend. So there's that and we are starting to see people come out of the woodwork as we continue working with the members and contacting through our own efforts. We have several people who are very likely potential baptisms, and I cant wait to see them all progress. 

Today for p-day we have something special planned, were gonna climb the MORRO CALZADO, in other words the freaking huge hill that's just outside of moyo. they say that the climb sucks but the view is beyond amazing, so i should have some pretty rad pictures by the end of today. Super stoked!!! 

My comp and I have had some interesting talks lately, and I'm starting to see just how weird he really is... I'm not saying that I'm perfect, nor that I'm not a little bit weird, but my comp confuses me sometime. Last night he lost his sweat rag that he uses to wipe his face every 5 seconds (he sweats a lot) and at first I thought he lost the one thing in the world he truly loved. Heck I thought there'd be a funeral or something for his 100% cotton 6 inch by 6 inch sweat soaked cloth haha. I have no idea but to each his own right?

This week I found a super awesome scripture in DC 64: 33 and 34. I heard that right when I needed to, from small things come the big things. LOVE YOU ALL HAVE A GREAT WEEK

(Family with couple getting married and ready for baptism this weekend!)