Well what a great and awesome week we had. We started off the Week by having Divisions with the Zone leaders actually. I had to stay in my area with Elder Ponce. He is an Elder from Honduras. It was a great opportunity to brush up on my Spanish and make sure I could still talk decently. We had some great success. We found some new people to teach and we placed 3 with a baptism date. The sad thing was that on Sunday none of them could come to church but it’s ok, we will keep them progressing.
This last 2 weeks Elder Bingham and I have been ON FIRE!!!!!!!! We have found 6 families to teach in the last 2 weeks. I AM SOOOO PUMPED.......... I really hope that we can stay focused on the needs of the people that we are finding to make sure that they progress. The Family that looks the most promising is the family Bareiro. They are a super young family with 4 daughters. They just barely moved here from... I don´t know where.... and we found them in a street contact and set up an appointment for the next day. The next day we went back with two of our best Youth in the ward and the Young women’s leader. We talked about families and how they can be together forever through the Gospel of Jesus Christ. And also that through the Gospel of Jesus Christ the family can be more united and be happy no matter what is going to happen in this life. They were sooo nice and our youth and young women’s leader bore their testimonies about their families and through the gospel they are happier. Ariel and Tanya really liked the message and the young women’s leader talked about the young women’s program and the primary in the ward and how it’s supposed to help kids learn more about Jesus. They really liked that. I´m sooo excited because this Wednesday we are going to invite them to be baptized and come to church.... ahhhhhh I hope that I don´t mess it up. But really its soo awesome to have a good ward like we do with awesome members with strong testimonies willing to help us. In my last area it was hard because the members really didn´t want to help us and so it was pretty tough. But here we are going to have even more success.
We also found a family Pereda. The dad is the brother of one of the members from another ward who actually lives in our area. Weird, but ok. We went and taught them with the member of the family. We taught about prophets and about today we have a prophet to guide us and the families so that they can follow the path to live with god. It was an awesome lesson because after the member bore their testimony about how the prophets really are here to guide us towards Christ. In the End we invited them to come to church with us and they said that they would love to. AHHH I´m so pumped, and it doesn´t end there.
We had a sweet lesson with a guy that came to church with a Hermana. He wants to get married to her and so we got him to come to church and afterward we had a lesson. He has a lot of stuff he has to change in his life, Drinking, smoking, among other things. But we promised him that through a baptism and through Christ he could start over. The Hermana bore her testimony about how messed up her life was before she came into the church. But, after she started meeting with the missionaries She picked herself back up and started on the path towards the good. She started crying and the Spirit was sooooo strong and It was tough because this guy was really stone cold, but I think he felt what this Hermana was saying was the truth because he accepted his Baptism date and to pray to know if the church is true.
Wow........ Elder Bingham and I are truly trying to work our butts off and we can see the fruit. We just need to keep working as hard as we possibly can, and when God is ready to give us a baptism, he will. But we have to meet him halfway. This last week I have been really thinking about repentance and what it means. It is a change of heart. As described in Alma chapter 5. In this chapter Alma really is talking to the members of the church. He is talking to them that they really haven´t gotten that same change of heart that the people had after the King Benjamin gave his speech. We as missionaries have to have a change of heart towards the work. We need to set aside truly everything else and go to work. As we lose ourselves, we will find ourselves, but only if we have a change of heart. President Callan was talking to us in the last Zone conference, right before Christmas. He said that the best gift that we could give to God was our will. We need to strive to make His will, ours as well.
I love you all and hope that you all have a super fantastic week this week. I know that I will for sure will. You all are in my thoughts and in my prayers.
Rohyhu mi familia
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Elder Beatty
Elder Beatty
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