Living in a house with 4
missionaries is a lot of fun, especially with the deep doctrinal questions and
discussions we have during companion studies and at night. My Guatemalan
Companion knows a ton of scriptures too, so the debates, well, discussions, are
kind of fun. We have also found a lot of interesting people here as well with
deep questions, like a member that we found who got baptized, went to church
for a month, and has never gone again for over 20 years (because he didn’t feel fellow-shipped, and never developed a testimony). He is really confused, and has
lots of questions (like if Jesus is really the name of our Savior, since it is
a Greek name and it should be Hebrew, and things like that.) Questions that
make you think. We always arrive at the same conclusion thought; the church is
true.
We have been trying to help out
a recent convert in our area who was baptized but whose record was lost. We
finally arrived at the conclusion with the bishop that with the signatures of a
few who witnessed the ordinance, we could make the record again and get him on
the records of the church at last. He, Luis, is a very interesting person. He
has a burning testimony, but does go to church very often for his health. He
has cancer in his arm that is spreading, and they have already had to amputate
his left hand. Now he needs another surgery as well, so he is in bad shape, but
is a saint through it all. We are almost done with figuring all his paperwork
out , so that is good. I will have done something good here in this area after
all :)
It is still hard finding
people... only two new people this week. One has potential to keep progressing.
Eugenia recently had her father pass away, and feels that there is now emptiness.
We were able to introduce the Plan of Salvation and make plans to explain it to
her more fully in the next visit, and we invited her to pray. I hope that she
can feel the Spirit and the Hope of this message and have a desire to learn
more.
Friday was hard without a single
lesson. We were losing hope. We went to the house to drop something off, and
offered a prayer, asking for help to find those who would accept us. We found
the hour and a half that he had left to work that day were much more successful,
the people were more receptive, and I could feel the spirit more. So, I know
that God answers our prayers.
I got to give another talk on
Sunday too. It was fun. On repentance. I read a part of Alma's conversion to
show the contrast of a sinners sorrow and a sinner’s repentant joy. Alma 36 is
a great chapter, I invite you to study it :) Also Alma 26 : 18-20, and Mosiah
2: 23 - 24. God really is merciful.
Also, Antonio, a recent convert
who always is with the missionaries, was able to be interviewed for the Melchizedek Priesthood, and passed, and will be ordained in a few weeks. We are excited for
him :)
This week we are going to have
our Zone Conference with President Bird. We will be talking about the Gospel
and Baptism, and about loving others, I feel, as that is the topic of all the
things he has given us to study. It should be good.
Well, those are the eventful
things that happened in the week.
Hope all is well at home!
Thanks so much the emails, Love
you all !
Elder Redford
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