Elder Cheney Takes on Mexico (and Fresno)

Hola mis amigos! How is everyone doing this week? Well this week was fantastic in the central valley, sunny California! This week was a quick one for me. It started off with the birthday of my favorite person ever! My MOM! Happy birthday!! I am so grateful for all the amazing things she does! I am very lucky to have a mom like her! Y'all wish you had a mom like mine!  Then we just had a great week full of visiting people and trying to stay busy during these crazy times! Especially when 4 elders in your zone get quarantined because they have covid and then your sister missionaries start getting sick! So my missionaries are dropping like flies, but we are still working hard!  We have seen some great miracles!  With Eduardo, we have been teaching him a lot. He told us he wants to have a temple marriage and he is ready to do whatever it takes to have that! He wants his family to be eternal! That was amazing! He also came to church yesterday. Did I mention that the church fina...

Que honda!?! Thought I would switch it up on y'all today! How's everyone doing this fine week? Everything this going swell here in the central valley, sunny California. We have seen many miracles and have done many things! First off, east coast beast coast. I had exchanges with the Woodward Park elders. I went with Elder Heid who is from Fort Mill South Carolina. It was super cool to get work with him. We may have even gone to In and Out....... California isn't too bad. We then saw some super cool miracles. They had no lessons planned for the afternoon. But I decided let's call your members, and we set up 2 lessons for a couple hours later. Which does not happen in this area! But the lessons went super well. Elder Heid is such a stud! We also had interviews from President and some training from the assistants. That went really well. I love president Gillespie! He is super quiet, but super awesome.  We also can now knock doors!! So we went contacting. Super cool experien...

Hola mis amigos! This week was a fast one! We had the baptism of Axel. He is such a great little kid. We had his baptism at his house cause he has a pool! It was just his family and us missionaries and the bishop. Small but super awesome. He just kept laughing and laughing as he got into the pool because it was cold and because of excitement! They also fed us Pozole after and I was a happy little Mexican missionary.  Service miracle! We had just left a lessons in were driving down the street when we passed a members house. This couple is older and the husband has health problems so the wife does all the work. We stopped and said hi! She told us how she has missed the missionaries so much and prayed for us this morning. We saw her sweeping up leaves from her sidewalk and we helped. She almost cried! What would have taken her an hour took us 5 minutes. She thanked us and said she prayed that someone would come and help her and it happened to be us!! Super cool! We have been teaching ...

Hola mis amigos! How's everyone doing this fine day? Hope everyone had a great conference week! There was so much that happened that I cant really remember what happened, but I truly just want to testify of the fact that we have prophets and apostles that live today! They love us and guide us in the way that God wants. Let God prevail. Allow his timing to happen. I have learned so much on my mission. I am so excited to share my experiences with each of you. Please if you are going through a hard time, know God loves you and I love you! If you wanna talk I am here every Monday at  Dustin.cheney@missionary.org  or if you wanna mail me a letter and we can be pen pals it's Elder Dustin Cheney, 1814 N Echo Ave, Fresno, CA 93704. But honestly God lives and loves you! Love y'all, Elder Cheney