This week was really good until Sunday came around. Haha it's always like that in the mission though, work hard all week and Sunday
rolls around and it's time for the investigators to show if they really
have the desire to progress, so naturally it's the day Satan goes to
town. We didn't have anyone show up to church this week which was really
hard because we had A TON of lessons, many of which were really
powerful, and we had 5 people on date for baptism and 9 that committed to
come, haha so we gotta do more to help them get to church.
F.
came after sacrament all dressed up and told us that the members of his
old church came looking for him at his house, told him our church wasn't
true and practically forced him to come to their church (F. knows
our church is true but hates to argue with people so he went along...
we gotta be better at supporting our investigators when trials roll
around.) He is trying so freaking hard and Satan has to throw trials at
him at every turn. Gotta step up our game too then.
We also found a really cool investigator this week his name is
R. He has lived a really good life, grew up with 0 money and so 0
education. When he got married he promised himself and his kids that
they weren't gonna grow up the way he did, so he worked his butt off so
he could put each of his kids through school and as a result every one
of his kids is a successful self sufficient human being. It really is
amazing to hear him talk about how he grew up with nothing and how he
didn't just accept his circumstances but put in the work and sacrifice
necessary to become a better person but more than anything to make his
family better people. He lives now in one of the biggest houses in
Tlahualilo and the only thing he lacks in life he tells us is God. He
doesn't know how to get closer to God and when we knocked on his door he
immediately invited us in and asked us how he can bring himself closer
to God. It was so cool.
As we talked to him about the restored gospel
and the apostasy he cried when we told him that people rejected and
killed Christs apostles (haha it was a little uncomfortable but really
cool to see that he really was hurt to hear that people killed God´s
chosen servants.) He can barely see but insisted that we give him a
pamphlet and a Book of Mormon so he could read it. He has to put them
like an inch away from his face so he can see. When we taught him about
Joseph Smith it was probably the strongest I have ever felt the Spirit
while reciting the first vision, it was really cool. He had doubts at
first about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon but little by little he
is accepting all of it. By the end of the second lesson we asked him to
say the prayer and he started thanking God for sending angels to
teaching him the truth and that he felt that he really had finally found
the truth, and fervently asking God to help him understand more. It was
pretty intense and I might have almost cried when he started talking
about angels...haha. He can't show up to church because he cant see and
we couldn't go by his house to help him because we had to be in the
church early because the District President came again this week to try
and figure out what they are gonna do with the branch but this week we
will definitely be going by to help him get to church.
No comments:
Post a Comment