As
far as this week I first want to share an experience we had with two separate lessons in the same day. First we go into a house and I don't
know why but I started feeling really angry and nervous and I could not
speak Spanish, it was so weird, it was like when I first started my mission.
We kept struggling through the lesson and at the end the lady starts
telling us about spirits and a demon that supposedly haunts her son, it
was a really nasty feeling and I have heard other stories like this on
the mission but this was the first one that felt real. But right after that
lesson we had one with E, his girlfriend, and O. and R. and the
Spirit was really strong and I could speak and teach like it was no
problem. So I just want to say it really is 100% the Spirit in the
mission, when the Spirit isn't in the lesson things fall apart fast and
when the investigators are doing weird things with bad spirits it goes
bad even faster. It was actually a really cool experience to see such a
dramatic difference between two lessons, one with and one without the
Spirit of God.
As far as O, R, E, and
his girlfriend We had a lesson with them right before I
left and they really have progressed so much. When we found E he was
dead, he wasn't a fan of life, dead spiritually, he just kind of
drifted, but after three weeks of coming to church and several months of
listening to the message of the gospel it really is amazing to see how
different he is. He is way happier, his relationship with his kids is
way stronger and as he realizes that not only does God love him but that
he has a responsibility to set the example for his kids and so to meet
that demand he steps it up every week. O will be baptized in two
weeks, R the week after, and E will be active again in the
church in two weeks as well.
My new companions
name is Elder P, he is from Mexico City and seems to be a
really funny cool guy. He only has 4 months in the mission but has been
in this area since he started so he knows it well. He told me on one of
the two - 3 hour bus rides we had to take to get here that we have
exactly 5 investigators in the entire area, supposedly they dropped
almost all their investigators last week because no one was progressing,
welcome to the mission, haha naw but it just means we gotta contact a
lot in the next couple weeks.
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