Hello everyone,
Wow
what a week of miracles and loops and stuff like that. Things that
just make your mind go crazy. Things that just make you wonder if that
stuff really just happened hahaha. No, we had an amazing week. I´m so
glad that I was able to help Elder Richards finish out strong here in
Ybate. The crazy thing is that we dropped Sergio on Monday. We went to
his house and we made a list of blessings that he would receive to be
baptized in the Church of Jesus Christ and a list of blessings to not be
baptized in the Church of Jesus Christ. On both lists he put remission
of sins and eternal life. WOW..... (something didn´t click somewhere)
So he tried to explain to us how he could justify putting it down on
both lists. We pretty much laid a spirit bomb in his heart. We brought
out a ton of scriptures shattering all his hopes of justifying his
answers. After all was said and done, He said that right now he didn´t
have any desires to be baptized. So we dropped him. It was a sad but
an optimistic moment. I figure that God has someone else in mind that
we need to find right now. On Sunday as well, 2 of our investigators
dropped us and we dropped 2 and so we were left with 1. Jorge. He
didn´t go to church this last Sunday and so his fecha fell for the next
week ahhhhhh It was turning into a lousy father’s day. haha
But
really this last week we started with pretty much NO investigators. It
was kind of depressing to look at our plans and to not really see
anyone who was ready to progress and so we just decided that it was time
for a new start. We left after a super awesome spiritual district
meeting on Tuesday and started working. We went and tried a less active
house that we had never met before. We clapped and they let us in and
the son´s girlfriend was there for a visit and so we taught them lesson
1. She is golden. We invited her to be baptized on the 6th and she
said ¨ Oh that’s plenty of time to read this book and prepare myself to
get baptized.¨ WOW.......
We
also were passing by a another less active family that we had never
been able to find before and it was like 830 at night right before we
were about to go home. We clapped the house and they were there. The
girl who is a member had her boyfriend there. We taught them lesson 1
and we gave him the Book of Mormon. As soon as we gave him the BOM he
started reading it. He couldn´t even wait. We put fecha with him for
the 6th. The girl came out to us afterwards and told us that she was
planning on marrying him and that they were living together. But they
weren´t living in our area AHHHHH but it’s ok we got a sweet reference
to pass on to the other missionaries.
And
yesterday we had the APs call us and ask us who was going to get
baptized in our zone this next week, because we didn´t have anyone in
the plans to be baptized. I had to call all the companionships and ask
them who was going to be baptized that week. A lot of them needed a
little bit of a kick in the pants to get their faith going. We helped
them realize that even though they don´t have anyone in their plans to
be baptized this week the Lord has someone in His plans. So we left and
were trying to find some more people.
It
started raining yesterday. We found 5 people yesterday IN THE RAIN and
they are all ready to progress and have a change in their life. At the
end of the day we were trying to find a reference in the pouring rain.
We clapped the house and the mom comes running out and tells us to come
in right away. We didn´t know if there was a guy in the house but we
went in anyway so that the women wouldn´t get wet. We asked if the
reference was there. The women said yes. She went and woke up her
son. William. He came out and was super happy to see us. He was an
old investigator from a different area. He had already gone to church 5
or 6 times and already knew about Joseph Smith and the BOM. We invited
him to be baptized this SATURDAY! He said that he didn´t know but was
going to let us know.
WOW I
will never doubt again in my mission that there are people all around
us who can be baptized that same week. I know that anything is possible
through the Lord. All we have to do is have faith and get to work.
The Lord has plans for us and we are going to complete them. I know
that this is the Lord´s work and nothing is going to stop it all I need
to do is hang on for the ride. I love you all and hope you have an
awesome week!!!!
Rohayhu
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Elder Beatty
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Elder Beatty
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