Hello! So this week we
had a pretty good week. We didn't have a ton of lessons, but we found a
good amount of people and the investigators we have are really starting to
progress. It's exciting. Even though it is going slow, we are
having more and more success every day and have a good amount of people who
have a lot of potential for baptism. Its sad to think that I won't be
able to attend any of their baptisms, because I'm almost positive that this is
my last transfer here in Miahuatlan. But the important thing is that they
are progressing and they're recieving the blessings of the gospel.
We found an
investigator last week who is really awesome. His name is Genardo and
he's a young man of about 22 years. He had an accident about a month ago
and broke his knee. When we found him, he still couldn't walk, and we
taught him beside his bed. He is very humble and really willing to learn
about the church. We gave him a book of mormon, and he's been reading
it. The last lesson we had with him we asked him if he had prayed it the
book is true, and he said yes. He said that he recieved an answer that it
is true!! We are very excited for him, and he is excited about the church
as well.
This week I had an
awesome experience while contacting. We were knocking on doors all the
morning without much success. It was really hot, so we decided to go to
one of the little shops to buy a drink. I don't usually contact the store
owners, but this time I felt prompted to contact them. We started talking
to them about the gospel, and we found that they were very interested.
They happily let us in to share our message. Their names are Juan,
Rosita, and Bartolo., and we visited them 3 times in this week alone, and they
are hungry to find more. They read the entire pamphlet of the
restauration, and asked for the next pamphlet on our second visit. They
truely were prepared to recieve the gospel. I am so thankful to have been
made into an instrument in the lord's hands to help find and teach these
people. It makes me think, what would have happened if I didn't contact
them, if i couldn't recognize the spiritual prompting? The experience
really humbled me. As a missionary, I should talk to everybody, because
who knows who is being prepared to recieve the gospel? I want to do my
best to give as many people as possible the opportunity to recieve this
message.
We found another
family that is very interested in the last couple of weeks. We are
teaching the married couple right now, and their names are Marta and Severiano.
(something like that. I don't know how to spell it.) They let
us in without having to explain anything more than "we are
missionaries." There aren't very many people like that,
haha... They are fairly interested and are progressing well at the
moment. We had an awesome moment with them in our last lesson.
Marta has a little restaurant in her home. As we were teaching them, a
soda vender came to the door. Marta placed her orders for the soda for
the restaruant, and afterwards asked "When are you going to take Bible lessons
from these missionaries?" He said "I'm catholic."
"It doesn't matter! Do you know what days we are in?"
She asked. He said no. "We are in the days of the
beast! We need to prepare for the end of the world! Did you know
that?" Once again he said no. "Well, sir, you need to
study the bible more." Then she invited him to church, our
church! She hadn't even been to church yet, and she was willing to invite
someone to church! It was hilarious! The poor man looked really
scared. But yeah, our investagators are awesome. :)
Well, thats just a
couple of the stories that happened this week. It was a very successful
week overall. I am so glad to be here in the mission, and for the
opportunity to have a bunch of cool experiences like these.
I love you all! Until next week!
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