Ok, I want to start by apologizing for not
writing last week. We had a Zone Activity, and sacrificed our time to write to
attend. Yep. We went Ice skating in Mexico and since I didn’t have time to
change, in shirt and tie too. :)
And when it rains here, it rains a
lot. The street was pretty much small river last night. It added some
excitement :)
btw, I didn´t learn that Mom was
the Girls Camp director until today :) Congrats! I know that you will have a
lot of fun with that calling :). And your Cupcakes all look delicious :)
Yesterday was marvelous, such as is
every Sunday when we attend church. Sundays are key days, because to be baptized
one needs to attend church 5 times. And we can really see who is committed to
the Gospel. We have one Investigator named Victorino who is a true example. He
is fairly old, and has bad knees. We had figured out a ride for him to attend
church the first two times, but voiced that he didn’t like have burden the
members so that he could attend, and told us he would walk to church. It was a
really great feeling to see him standing outside the gates of the chapel when
we arrived, after being unfruitful in bringing anyone to church with us. (It
was cold that day, and the weather is a really big deal here, I guess).
Thankfully half way a member family picked him up and brought him the rest of
the way. (I want to say that it is 4 or 5 miles from his house! ) But I was
grateful to have seen a token of his faith to attend church. We have also
helped various less active members attend church, which is equally gratifying.
One sister was having a hard time with selling in her market, and when we saw
her in church, elder Bautista and I both more or less received revelation that
her market was going to be successful this week because she attended. A less
active member that we trying to reactivate also bore his testimony the last
Sunday, and it was neat to hear someone tell a story about the missionaries
when you are the missionary in the story.
The Last day of February I had a
companion exchange with our Zone Leaders. It was my first time working in a
different area. By the end of the day, I was complimented by him for my
confidence. I was truly shocked, as I don´t show a lot with my quiet self. It
is something that I am working on, and I guess it shows sometimes :)
This past week we had two more
Companion Exchanges with our district Leader. We have had a lot lately.
Saturday we put on a Missionary
Activity for the ward. We made a Tour of the Plan of Salvation, by decorating
different rooms to represent the different stages of the Plan. The started out
in the chapel, as premortal life, went through life and learned about faith,
and the Elder Bautista and I taught about Repentance and baptism, and led them through
a blue and an orange door to represent Baptism by water and fire. They followed
the Iron Rod to the end, and then were shown the Spirit world, and then they
were able to tour the three kingdoms of Glory.
We had the privilege to guide the
last group through the Celestial Kingdom, and it was really beautiful. We
explained about this kingdom beforehand, unlike the others, and then let them
enter. It was decorated so well that a member said he truly thought it was in
the temple at first. We were able to bear our testimonies once everyone was
inside, and we could really feel the Spirit. A few members brought friends with
them who weren’t members, and I hope that good will come of that. It turned out
really well, even though we started out 45 minutes late....
Sunday I was also able to teach the
Gospel Principles class that we teach to Investigators on my own :). I ended a
little early, but it went well.
Due to all the business, we didn’t
have very many lessons this week.... only 18. I cringed at the number when we
counted for the week. But we are going to work hard this last week before this
transfer is over. Chances are I am going to stay in this area, but change to a
different house. I´ll know for sure next week. My hopes are high for this week
:)
All my love,
Elder Redford
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