Things are going really good with our investigators and yes
we found 5 new ones this past week! Side note, this week Elder Anastacio and I
were craving hamburgers so we bought stuff to make them and they were super
good. We had an appointment with Anaid and she had some questions about the
dream Lehi had and what everything meant. I had no idea how to tell her any of
that in Spanish so Elder Anastacio talked about that and answered her other
questions as well. I could at least understand them though and that was super
awesome!
I had more stomach pains this week. Hopefully one day my
stomach will adapt and I won’t have to keep buying medicine. I did buy a coke
and it helped a lot. We also had a district meeting where we talked about using
invitations for various commitments, then we took some time to read and search
the scriptures (specifically Mosiah 18, Alma 18 and Alma 22) for examples we
could use. We have 35 pages of references (from now to 3 years ago), that we
need to talk to and track down!!
Thursday started out a little rough since it was my turn to
do weekly planning. It still went pretty good, just a little slow because I’m
not used to it yet. After lunch we went contacting in a random calle Tocando
Puertas and we contacted 4 people! Usually we don’t have much luck but that day
we did! One of the contacts saw us walking in the street and asked us what we
were doing and who we were. So we started talking to him telling him that we
are missionaries from the church, told him about the Book of Mormon and then
asked him some questions to get to know him. His name is Luis. He is catholic
but he wants to change and is interested in learning more about the Book of
Mormon and our church too! He wants us to come talk to his mom and younger
siblings as well next week!
A bit later we had a lesson with Brenda. Their daughter kept
bugging them so they were distracted and frustrated and couldn’t feel the
spirit. Both Elder Anastacio and I said prayers in our minds for Heavenly
Father to help them stop being frustrated and eventually they did calm down and
the last half of the lesson went great! We were all able to feel the spirit.
I’ve been struggling with study time cause there’s so much I
need to study and we only have an hour each day to do it. Elder Anastacio helped
me to realize that each day, I need to focus on our investigators that we have
planned to teach that day and the needs that they have. As I plan for my
investigators, I will be able to learn more doctrines, principles and
altogether have a greater understanding of the gospel. Later that day, we
weren’t having luck with the appointments we had so we decided to go contacting
down the first street we came across. The first door we knocked on, a woman
answered and right away she invited us in! At first Elder Anastacio and I
didn’t know if she was somehow just joking with us or if the situation was
real; but because of how great God is, he prepared this woman and her father to
start hearing our message. Also, they were feeling sick so Elder Anastacio
offered to give them both a blessing, which they loved the idea of! So we gave
them a blessing and scheduled another appointment for next week!
During the week we also met up with a member who took us to
a street vendor place and bought us carnitas. I have never had any real
carnitas until today and I gotta say that I’m not a huge fan of them. It’s like
they take every part of a pig, boil it and then put it on a plate and eat with
tacos. There was some meat that was good, but the part I didn’t like was the
fat!! Any who, after that we were at our casa and Elder Anastacio was looking
at the big map we have on our wall and somehow tweaked his back. He was in a
lot of pain, didn’t have strength in his legs and couldn’t feel his feet either.
I called Hermana Urrea and she told us to go to a hospital, so our zone leaders
came and helped us. They took xrays at the hospital and didn’t see anything
wrong, but they gave him 3 different medications and told us to come back in 2
weeks. They also told us not to walk too far and take it easy. I’m not sure
what will happen these next couple weeks but I know everything will be okay.
Sunday we had stake conference in our church building so
there was a ton of people there including all the missionaries from our zone.
It was nice to see and talk to them. After church we went to lunch with a
member and her daughter and husband and their kids. After we were done eating,
we started talking to the member’s daughter and her husband and we found out
they aren’t members. We asked them what they believed in and that led us to a
couple hour long discussion and lesson about the restoration! It went really
well I think and they said we could go by their house and teach them again!!
The only thing that will make it rough to visit them is that they live far
away. When we got home that night we got a text message from a member who said his 19
year old niece went to stake conference today and wants to be baptized! We were
blown away and super happy! We’ve been praying for help to have a baptism and
while we still need to teach her the lessons, we know she is the answer to our
prayers!
My thought this week comes from Alma 32. It talks a lot
about faith and compares it to a seed how we need to nurture it and be patient
while it grows. While it is important to be patient with faith, you can compare
the seed to just about anything. For example, I have been really wanting to get
a baptism this transfer because I know the people here well and I could be transferred
at the end of this cambio. During interviews with President last week, he told
me how important it is to be patient with investigators and help them learn and
grow until they are ready to be baptized. If you take bread out of the oven too
early and eat it, it won’t be good. For good bread to be made, we have to have
the right ingredients and be patient while it is cooking. As long as I am
helping plant seeds and nourishing/helping our investigators grow, it doesn’t
matter if I baptize them or not. As long as they are progressing, they will be
baptized eventually! I hope that all makes sense. In short BE PATIENT WITH
EVERYTHING! Haha
I love you Mama! Have a great week!
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| Yay for hamburgers!!! |
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