Well, this week we felt we were
on fire. We were looking at our investigators on Thursday during weekly
planning and we realized that we had a potential of 10 Investigators in church
for this week, and that all 10 had said yes, that they would go. We were
feeling super blessed, and excited to see so many in church. But, by Saturday,
two had dropped out in us, and Sunday morning another 2 canceled on us, and
then when we got to church, there were only 2 that showed up. Helaman and
Hermano Nelson. Hermano Nelson has quite a story though :)
On Tuesday Night, we were told
that Hno Nelson wanted to take the lessons, which is a huge miracle. He is the
husband of a member in the ward. He has had many many missionaries pass by, and
many have tried to teach him, but it never went very well. So, my companion and
his companion before me stopped pressuring him, and just stopped by to visit
the family, without any pressure on him to go to church or be baptized. Then,
all of a sudden, he went to church. We didn’t think much of it, as he had gone
before with his family, but had made it clear that he as apart from it. But
last week during testimony meeting, the members´ testimonies about the temple
got to him. And he felt like the lord was calling him, telling him it was time.
On Wednesday night we went to the church to talk to him, and he told us that
the Lord had already called him like 3 times like this, and he felt that now he
needed to act. So, my companion´s testimony of Patience has grown, and mine
too, and as we have seen the Lord´s hand in preparing him to finally join his
family in the Gospel. So that was a special experience.
A family that we had been
waiting for to arrive was Alfredo and his wife. We contacted him on the street,
and I asked what the most important thing for him in his life. He responded
that it had been money, and talked about how in his past life he had been a
workaholic and a party-er, and tried to buy his family´s love. But now that he
has accepted Christ thanks to a Christian church, he realizes that God and
Family are the priorities. So we scheduled to see him.
The day that we saw him I was in
Exchanges, and Elder Oliveros came to my area for the day. It was a hard day of
mostly just walking looking for addresses, and no lessons. In the night we had
the appointment with Alfredo, and he invited us in and offered us each a glass
bottle of coke :) We talked with him and taught him about how his family could
be sealed in the Temple for all eternity, and then invited him and his wife to
baptism, and they both said yes, and agreed to going to church. We were super
sure that they would come, but we are going to need to check up on them and see
what happened.
This week we were also able to
contact a lot, we got to 97, just 3 short of our goal! We made a goal that if
we didn’t meet our daily goal of contacts, we wouldn’t eat dinner (we eat lunch
with the members instead of dinner). And, as you could see, we didn’t eat
dinner one night :) It was a little incentive to contact more, I it helped us
to talk to more people :)
This morning we also did a
little housework, pulling weeds in front of the house and behind in the patio
:) That was fun :)
I am also reading the part in 3
Nephi when Christ visited the Americas, trying to analyze it a little more,
breaking up what he taught in each day, and paying a little more attention. It
has been really good. I invite you to do the same as well, it is the most
impacting part of the Book of Mormon :)
Well, those are the events of
the week.
I hope all is good at home
:)
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY MOM AND
DAD!!!!!!
(Hey, it just so happens that
your anniversary is the day that the Canicula starts, which as the 40 hottest
days of summer here! Wupee! Sunblock is a very dear Amigo :)
With Love,
Elder Redford
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