bathroom" -up the movie
This is just one example of some of the deepest and most difficult
questions to answer as a trainer...
But anyways, this week was good! I finally changed the pink sheets in
the piso, and we are still working on other ways to defeminize it, but
not sure. If anyone has any ideas, send me an email, we are open for
advice. It was too much to handle before, but it's getting better
little by little.
Some of the highlights of the week were getting a call from a member
who was pretending to be a jehovas witness who wanted to get baptized into
the church, eating some outstanding duck from this Chinese restaurant
downtown, having our investigator give us some amazing South American
cooking lessons, having a returned missionary from Venezuela move into
our ward, and other little miracles that seem to happen the harder we
are working.
Every week we try to stay as busy as we can and have as many things
scheduled as possible. Recently we have been having a ton of lessons
scheduled which has been super amazing. However, there are days where
we are just hitting the pavement all day till we have nothing left to
give. On Friday night, we knew we were going to be spending a good
majority of our time contacting in the streets and doing as many
things as possible. Every night we pray the night before to
try and find new people or have opportunities to help whoever we can
to come unto Christ that next day. We have this young investigator
named Fabio who has just been dead for like a month. His phone
doesn't work, and he told us not to come to his house because his
parents may not take our visit very well. We had no way to contact
this investigator. That Friday night, we planned that we were going
to just take our chances by going to his house. I wrote it in my planner
as "find Fabio". Well, the next day we started walking to his house
at that time and it just did not feel right. So, we decided to stop
and start contacting. The first people we tried talking to rejected
us. But as soon as the people walked on, we saw this kid about two
football fields away from us with no one else around waving both of
his arms in the air walking towards us. Puzzled, we started to walk
towards him. Guess who? Fabio himself was walking towards us. We
were beyond stoked to see him, and even more stoked when he asked us
when we could meet again. He told us he has been reading in the Book
of Mormon and has questions. We set a date to meet with him this
week. We wanted to Find Fabio, and the Lord led us right to him.
This is just one of the ways the Lord works with us as we do his work
here.
Another experience was with this investigator we have named Carlos.
We found Carlos on the oldest page we have of people who were
contacted by the missionaries but for some odd reason, either stopped
talking to the missionaries or never answered the phone or the door in
the first place. Anyways, we called Carlos and he told us we could
come over. Carlos is a hard working construction worker, and was
pretty exhausted both times we taught him, but he excepted everything
rather well, and when we invited him to read the Book of Mormon, he
found the time to do it. To be honest, we didn't really think he was
going to come when we invited him to church. Sunday morning, we
started sacrament meeting and there was not a single investigator in
church. We were so bummed because all of our progressing
investigators couldn't come for work reasons or some other reasons we
don't know. I was pretty sad, but as we started the sacrament, in
walked Carlos. Not only did he come, but he brought his wife as well.
Not only that, but they walked like 40 minutes to church! He had his
Book of Mormon in his hand and a restoration pamphlet we had given him
as well. He walked in and in the loudest whisper I have ever heard
was like, "I'm here, I brought my wife, and my Book Of Mormon." I'm
not sure what some of the members thought when they heard this as they
were singing the sacrament hymn but it was music to my ears. We don't
know what's going to happen with Carlos, but what we do know, is that
he has a lot of potential if he keeps up with that same kind of faith.
Other than that, things are going good here in Vecindario. My
companion is so faithful man. I'm so blessed to have this guy here
with me, and he's improving insanely fast in the language.
This truly is the Lord's work. I know this gospel is true, and I know
that it truly is the path to never ending happiness here on the earth.
I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ Amen.
Elder Baron
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