Hello
everyone! I hope all is well with all of you and that you had a fantastic week
:) This week we found a new investigator who seems really nice but she has a
problem...well a few actually hha. The first is that she isn´t married :/ the
other is that she takes care of her mom on the weekends and so she isn´t
here....that means she can´t go to church with us on Sundays....but, we have
another appointment with her this week and we are hoping to convince her of the
truth of the gospel and the importance of assisting church each Sunday.
Armando
and Heber came to church yesterday!!! Heber doesn´t have his baptismal date
anymore because we feel like he still has a few doubts and that he isn´t quite
strong enough in his own testimony so we are going to wait with him a little
bit longer. Armando is going to have his interview tomorrow for his baptism! :)
We passed by yesterday to see him but he wasn´t home....but we are going to
pass by today so that we can review what the other missionaries had taught him
before and the things that he needs to know for his interview so that he feels
comfortable. Please keep him in your prayers so that he can become a very firm
and strong member and that he can keep learning and progressing :)
Yesterday
we had a really great experience :) two young men (of 16 years of age)
accompanied us to visit Armando but when we got to the house he wasn´t there
haha so we just walked down a few houses and knocked on the door of another
investigator that lives on the same street (her name is Enedina). She happened
to be home and invited us in and so we entered haha ;) and we had an amazing
lesson with her! We were able to feel the spirit while we were with her and the
two young men shared their testimonies and scriptures and even invited her to
pray to know if what we taught her was true and invited her to come to church
with us! They are amazing :)
One
of the young men said two things that really stuck out to me, that I liked a
lot :) His name is Edgar :) he´s really cool. Here are the two things that I
learned from him that I really liked! In fact, he is now diary famous cuz I
wrote all about it in my journal when we got home yesterday haha :)
He
was explaining to the investigator that sometimes we feel like arrows flung
into the air randomly and that we don´t have any direction. He said that God
and the gospel give us the direction that we need. I added on to it a little
and explained that God wants us to hit the bull´s eye of the target because
that is where He is. The gospel of Christ guides and directs us to hit that
perfect spot so that we aren´t like lost arrows floating in mid air just
waiting to crash into a tree or some other object, but that we are flying with
a guided and directed purpose. But yeah, it was a really great analogy. :)
The
other thing that I loved was that he asked very specific questions. While we
were explaining about what we do at church, he asked Enedina, "If you
received a phone call, like you did just now (because she went to answer the
phone like 5 minutes before), and they told you that tomorrow you were going to
die, what would you do in the last few hours of your life?" And at first I
was thinking, aw man, he´s going to get all off topic with that question. Why
did he ask it? But i didn´t say anything, I just waited and watched Enedina´s
face. We waited and the Enedina answered and said that she would call her loved
ones and be with the ones that lived close and that she would settle some
temporal things (like payments or her will etc...). He then said that he had
thought about this before as well and had come to the same conclusion; that he
would be with his family and probably do some of the things that he had always
wanted to do but then he said, "Jesus knew that He was going to die before
He actually did and I wondered if I would have done the same thing that He did.
He didn´t go say goodbye to His mother or anything like that. What He did was
sit down to dinner, the last supper, and He prepared and blessed bread and wine
(water) to share with His apostles so that they would/might always remember
Him. That is what He did in His last moments..." and he then went on to
explain a little bit more about the Sacrament and why it is so important. What
the!? yeah, i was pretty much blown away by this kid! When I was his age, I did
not think like that haha. I still hadn´t thought of it that way until he just
explained it yesterday! I still am like, amazed at the Spirit and power that
this young man brought into the lesson and the things that he taught me that
night (yesterday). It was amazing! :) But yeah, the other young man that went
with us was also very incredible and he is actually a recent convert :) He is
the convert of one of the sisters that was in my district in the MTC (I don´t
know if you remember Sister Petersen, but it´s her convert :) ) he shared his
testimony as well and they both just spoke with such power and sincerity, I
loved it! Enedina cried during the lesson :) Edgar is going to accompany us
agai ntonight! I´m excited :)
Well,
those were like the main highlights of this week :) oh yeah, we also had
interviews with President and they were pretty great :) He is awesome and his
wife too :) I love them :)
I
hope that you enjoyed the letter this week and that you all can keep searching
out the light that God has placed in each of your lives through personal and
family prayer, personal and family scripture study and regular assistance to
church each Sunday. I also hope and expect that all of you that are home are
actively participating in missionary work and in your family home evenings :)
By doing all these small and simple things, great blessings will enter your
lives and you will be able to feel the great love that our Father in Heaven has
for each one of you :) I love you all and hope that you have an amazing week!
Love
always,
Hermana
Walker
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