Hello all and all hope you all are having such a holly jolly Christmas because it’s the best time of the year. hahaha ho ho ho ho the Christmas season is coming up and boy has it been getting really really hot and humid. It’s crazy because it seems that you just start sweating when you aren´t even doing anything. You sweat when you’re sitting and not even thinking about anything. hahaha no but this last week has been pretty tough for us. Elder Van said that this last week has been the most that he has walked in his entire mission. Wow what an accomplishment.
Even though we walked a ton this last week i feel that we had some good success. We didn´t quite find as many new people to teach as we had wanted to but I think we still had some good experiences and lessons with the people that we did have. We actually found a family that used to be investigating the church. The family Aldalma. They had a baptism and wedding date but when the day came they didn´t go because they felt rushed and so they just kind of dropped away from the church. We found them this last week and we taught them the 10 commandments and told them that it’s a commandment to go to church as well as be married and baptized. We invited them to church and left and we didn´t think they would come but lo and behold they did this last Sunday and everyone was super happy to see them again. And by the looks of it they had a super awesome experience too.
We actually had some good lessons besides that family. Venancio is a boyfriend of one of the member’s daughters and we started teaching him last week and we talked about baptism and stuff. He had gone to church one time. We passed by to talk about the plan of salvation and the atonement. Elder Van did a cool thing with his backpack that is super heavy. He was like ok hold your arms out straight. He put his heavy backpack in Vanacio´s hands and he had to hold it. We are like ¨this backpack is sin¨. We have to carry all the sins that we have. Then I put my backpack on and it was super hard to keep them up but this kid did it with great effort. We then talked about only through a baptism and through Jesus Christ we could take all the sins that we had and drop them. We took off the backpack and just sat there. We invited him to be baptized and he said that he would love it. He really does understand that a baptism is a way to change your life forever. So that was pretty sweet.
We did have a baptism set up for this next Saturday with Jorge but he didn´t come to church this last week so his fecha fell. He isn´t married to his girlfriend either and so that is going to be a little hurdle that we have to jump over. Good thing I have been around track and field for a while. hahah wow that really wasn´t funny.... but anyway I think he will do it because he knows that this is the right thing in his life. He has already stopped drinking and smoking so why stop the change there.... hahaha
The two girls that we were teaching who have fecha we really didn´t get much chance to teach them this week. We went by to their house on Saturday to invite them to church but their dad was super drunk and was just dogging on Joseph Smith and it was all I could do from not punching him in the face. We kind of invited them but they didn´t end up coming so that was a little bit of a bummer, but we are really going to focus with them this week. We had one sweet lesson with them in that we went and we had the game plan to see how their prayers went because we invited them to pray about what we had taught them was true, and we were going to resolve their doubt. So we went and asked them how their prayers went and they said yeah we got our answer that these things are true. Wow..... Elder Van and I didn´t know what to do because this basically never happens.... so we invited them to be baptized on the 7th of January and they said yes..... wow.... what faith they have to have gotten their answer from God this fast.
I had to teach the class this last week in church and it went really really well, but that’s not what I’m going to talk about. While I was teaching the class we were reading a lot of parts about Jesus Christ and testimony and His atonement. I looked and saw the picture of Him when He is resurrected and visiting the Americas with the people. I just thought about Christ and all that He has done for us. We have some members in our ward who aren´t very strong and have a lot of doubts about what Christ did for us. I just thought in that moment when I saw Christ in that picture that Christ is our Savior....... We don´t have to see him to know him......
I hope you all have a great week this week. I hope that you can know our Lord and Savior Christ. Remember... you don´t have to see him to know him.
Rohy´hu familia
Elder Beatty
The two girls that we were teaching who have fecha we really didn´t get much chance to teach them this week. We went by to their house on Saturday to invite them to church but their dad was super drunk and was just dogging on Joseph Smith and it was all I could do from not punching him in the face. We kind of invited them but they didn´t end up coming so that was a little bit of a bummer, but we are really going to focus with them this week. We had one sweet lesson with them in that we went and we had the game plan to see how their prayers went because we invited them to pray about what we had taught them was true, and we were going to resolve their doubt. So we went and asked them how their prayers went and they said yeah we got our answer that these things are true. Wow..... Elder Van and I didn´t know what to do because this basically never happens.... so we invited them to be baptized on the 7th of January and they said yes..... wow.... what faith they have to have gotten their answer from God this fast.
I had to teach the class this last week in church and it went really really well, but that’s not what I’m going to talk about. While I was teaching the class we were reading a lot of parts about Jesus Christ and testimony and His atonement. I looked and saw the picture of Him when He is resurrected and visiting the Americas with the people. I just thought about Christ and all that He has done for us. We have some members in our ward who aren´t very strong and have a lot of doubts about what Christ did for us. I just thought in that moment when I saw Christ in that picture that Christ is our Savior....... We don´t have to see him to know him......
I hope you all have a great week this week. I hope that you can know our Lord and Savior Christ. Remember... you don´t have to see him to know him.
Rohy´hu familia
Elder Beatty
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