Que pasa amigos?
I hope everyone is
having a great time back in school doing the classic school things like sitting
at a desk all day trying not to bang your head too hard against it when you don’t
understand something, haha just kidding, I know that all of y’all are too smart to
have that happen to you (:
Anyways this week has
been a good one, we had some really good lessons and we met some great people,
one of the highlights is the fact that the sister missionaries had a baptism
this last Friday! They were able to baptize a young lady named Kris that they
have been teaching for quite a while now so that was awesome!
We had a great lesson
with one of our investigators named J this week and she says that she will for
sure read the Book of Mormon and that she will come to church next week so we
will pray that she follows through with those commitments.
Another thing that I thought
was awesome this week is that I went on exchanges with our district leader
Elder Teare. He is a great guy from California and it was fun to work with him
for the day. And during the day when we were knocking some doors we ran into a
kid named C and something he said was great when we invited him to pray about
the message and eventually read the Book of Mormon when he gets it and he said
"why not, I have nothing to lose, if it isn’t true I can go back to my
normal life, but if it is true then why wouldn’t I want to have it in my
life." and I was all like, hallelujah someone that actually understands
that we aren’t there to destroy their faith; we are there to augment it
and they literally have nothing to lose from listening to us. It was
nice.
Final thing from this
week that I loved was another one of those moments that was initially a bad
experience but ended up teaching a good lesson. We ran into a guy while
tracting (lots of stories begin with that phrase) and we met this Spanish guy
from Mexico and he let us in to talk with him, we were super excited we had
found another Spanish guy. So we teach him the restoration and ask him if it okay
to come by some other time to bring the Book of Mormon and he said no. He told us that he was very, very catholic
and he wasn’t interested in changing and he wouldn’t accept a BOM because it
would just sit there unread and if it really was as important as we said it was
it should be given to someone who will read it and enjoy it. We left a little
bit sad cuz it is always sad when someone isn’t receptive to the message, but
it did reteach me a lesson that he hit on, that if the Book of Mormon is true
and it is as important as we say it is we should always be excited to study it, I
know when I was back home I didn’t study it as much, as I
should have and so this experience really told me that we should always
make time for something that is as amazing and central to our church and life
itself, no matter what happens in our day.
I love you all and I
hope that you have a great week!
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