All you need is a Mustard Seed: Homeless

Hello friends and family! How is everyone doing? I have been wonderful as usual. There are never bad days on the mission, just hard ones. Ha, ha. Sorry I didn't email on Monday, we changed our p-day to Wednesday so we could do a temple session in Houston. We had so many crazy things happen to us this week, but first I want to start off with the miracles.

First and foremost, we saw Minor, our investigators, and his family again. They came to church and they loved it. The ward welcomed them with open arms and they were instantly a part of our incredible ward family. After church, Minor and his wife, Nadine, invited us over for lunch. We got there and she made some AMAZING Belizian food that reminded me so much of home. They eat rice with practically every meal, so I really did feel like I was home. I have been missing rice SO MUCH. We laughed and had a great time and then taught the Gospel of Jesus Christ. They ended up telling us their amazing stories. Nadine is such an amazing mother to her children and she is a great example to me. Minor is just awesome. The person he was is completely different from the person he is now. He has changed his life around to support his children and his wife and now he has the strongest desire to come unto Christ. We had originally invited him to be baptized on April 4, but as the Spirit directed, we changed his date to the 21 and he accepted. He will be baptized this weekend! We have an investigator devotional on Sunday night, where the missionaries bring their investigators and the recent converts bear their testimonies ... well, the Spirit told me to invite Minor to bear his testimony even though he hasn't been baptized yet and he said yes. His testimony was INCREDIBLE. He cried and expressed his deepest gratitude to the Lord for the blessings in his life. He even mentioned Sister Robinson and I and started crying, too. He's wonderful and his family is, also. We love being with them. I'm so blessed and FOREVER grateful to have had the opportunity to meet this wonderful family. MY FIRST FAMILY.

We also attended a school event this week for John and his daughter, Savannah. She was in the school's "wax museum" and he invited us to come. It was really fun to be around other people and see all the little kids representing different famous people. I even met a little MESSI! He was awesome. John was very appreciative of us going. He teared up again and said that he's so grateful to have the support he has from us. We let him know that he's so loved not only by us, but by Heavenly Father. Please pray for him. He's the greatest dad and supporter to his daughter.

I DID FAMILY HISTORY THIS WEEK. A lot of it, actually! President Scott, our stake president, has taught us how to do it, not only correctly, but efficiently! He told us that if we're stuck, we need to move on to someone else and save as many people as we can in the short time we have. We only get 2 hours a week to so family history, so I took his advice. I found about 19 names this week! It was incredible! I also took my great grandma, Helen Bettina Jones, all the way through the temple, so that was a special experience for me. I sure hope that she's happy.

On Saturday, we went to the PULGA! (Flea Market). The Spanish-language missionaries set up a booth there with a bunch of pamphlets, copies of the Book of Mormon, Proclamation to the Family, etc., and a flat-screen TV playing Spanish Mormon messages. We thought it would be fun to help since we're English-speaking missionaries and we can talk to people, too! It was so fun just to say hello and introduce who we were. We talked to a lot of people and for lunch we had an hour just to go shop! I felt like I was home!! Weekend with my family at the pulga. Awesome memories. It made my heart happy and so did that JUICY MANGO WITH CHILE!

Okay, so the crazy thing that happened was that we lost our keys! Sister Robinson had them and she said she was 100% positive she put them in her bag when we went biking one day. So around 8:30 at night, we had to back track our bike route with a member and flashlights! We looked forever and we couldn't find them anywhere. We couldn't move our car our even get into our apartment! So we ended up staying with the BayBrook sisters and we slept on their floor. We had to wear the same dirty clothes the next day and we were SOOOO exhausted! I remember praying that night PLEADING that we could find our keys and I had a dream! In the dream, I distinctly remember Heavenly Father telling me that the keys were in the trunk underneath our box of copies of the Book of Mormon. When I woke up, I told the sisters my dream, but everyone shrugged it off because Sister Robinson was positive that they were in her bag. One of the elders helped us get on star to come open our car and we popped open the trunk from the inside to double check and guess what happened ... I LIFTED THE BOX AND THEY WERE RIGHT UNDERNEATH. It was incredible! Such awesome revelation. I'm so happy and thankful that Heavenly Father watches over us daily.

Anyways, I'm doing so great. Transfer calls are on Monday and I am hoping I get to stay, but I know that I will always go where the Lord wants me to go. I love you all with ALL of my heart. Keep being the best enduring representative of Jesus Christ.

Sister Sanchez