Hey y’all how you
been?
I hope you all have
had a fantastic week. I had an interesting experience the other day while Elder
Barron and I were tracting. We had just pulled up to a neighborhood that we had
some investigators in and we were planning on knocking on some doors to meet
some new people; when all of a sudden out of the complex walks about twenty
Jehovah's Witnesses who are flying through the neighborhood knocking on everyone’s
doors and preaching their beliefs. It was pretty cool to see how they did it,
but we were all like, "Dang it, now everyone is just going to think we are
the JW coming around again." So we ran up the street and tried to knock on
a door and the next thing we know we are experiencing a Moses parting the Red Sea
moment, where all the JW come by us but don't even touch the house we are at,
but go literally everywhere else. So yeah that was a fun time. After that we
decided to come back way later since everyone didn't like us knocking on the
doors right after the JW's
But this week has been
a super awesome week. If you all remember our investigator Andy, who was a miracle
find when both Elder Barron and my tires popped on our bikes, this will be
exciting. We were teaching him and his family this week about the plan of
salvation and how God has provided us a way to return to him, and overcome
all of our challenges in life, and that through Christ we can
all be forgiven and eventually live with God and our
families for eternity. It was an awesome lesson and you could definitely see
the spirit working on each of them. We then decided today was the day to commit
them to baptism. So in my broken Spanish I invited each member of the family
individually, and all 5 of them accepted! We haven’t set a date yet
and there are a couple things we need to work through with them but it was
so amazing to see that in a few short weeks that God had given these
amazing people the desire to come closer to him and follow in the
footsteps of the Savior by being baptized and following his commandments. It
is one of the best things about the mission, I love seeing the progression
of investigators!
We also had another
blessing this week with a part member family. We visit them from time to time
to keep them strong in the church and to build a relationship with the father
who is not LDS; but does believe in God but thinks that churches have such
conflicting opinions that he can’t really discern the truth. His name is
Derrick and his wife is named Nicole btw. So this week we were visiting with
them and we decided to teach about the importance of prayer and how God really
wants us to communicate with him since he is our literal Father in Heaven. So
we start out by watching the Mormon message "Earthly Father, Heavenly Father"
which is a great video. And afterwards discussed it for a while, then without
our prompting or even extending a commitment, Derrick told us
that he hasn't prayed for a very long time and he knows he needs to
change that, so he will do it now and he wants to do it too! It was
the first time he has ever been willing to change so it was a HUGE blessing.
Quote of the week:
"If we want to be growing we will have to be out of our comfort zone."
It is a great quote that I’m applying every day now by going out of my way to
talk to everyone I see and say more in lessons, especially if it is in Spanish.
I know if we apply this idea and pray for guidance we will be able to grow
and be shaped by God into true Disciples of Christ.
Love y’all, have an
awesome week.
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