Hola familia y amigos,
This week involved a lot of walking in the sun, but there were some awesome
miracles that happened.
On Friday we had a nice lesson with R. We aren´t too sure what
happened this week, but we ran into a lot of people that had some hard hearts.
R´s brother was there and he was listening to us when all of a sudden he
asks "I don't want to attack you or anything but isnt true that Joseph Smith had
40 wives?" How is that not wanting to attack us?! We explained it to him, and he
started to raise his voice and say that God only works through His Spirit to
talk with men in these days and not prophets. We let him rage a little bit and
then we explained the Book of Mormon and he calmed down. The same thing happened
to us on Sunday with some other Haitians we had been teaching. We testified that Joseph Smith was a prophet and one man bore his testimony that he wasn't. That
was interesting. The cool thing is that we had a Book of Mormon to show him that
there is an evidence that Joseph Smith is a prophet. He didnt agree to reading
it, so I guess he will never know (unless he repents).
On Saturday we had lesson with Pilar and the family of the 2nd counselro in
the bishopric.It went awesome.
The best part of this week was Sunday. Everyone that we wanted to see in
the chapel came. Pilar, Robinson, Philosiane, and Alejandro and Dea came! I was
so happy!!!! I bore my testimony I was so happy!!! I had been fasting that they
would make it.
That´s pretty much it for this week. That which I do not write is my
companion and I walking in the street in the sun. Thank you all for your letters
and your prayers. I want to finish this email with the following story:
Friday morning we had left to do some contacts in the morning, and we went
to go contact a reference. We talked with the lady and she was very nice. She
told us that she belonged to a Pentecostal faith and that she was just fine. We
showed her a copy of the Book of Mormon and testified that God had called a
prophet in these last days. She asked "there are prophets in these days? How can
I know that?" I bore my testimony and offered to see if we could explain to her
how she could know. I felt the Spirit carry every word I said to her heart, but
then she said "no thanks". That just killed me. Here I am with the greatest
message in the world, the name of Jesus Christ on my chest, testifying that
today there is a prophet of God on the earth and this daughter of God says "no
thanks". I hope that she will receive the gospel later in her life, but I cannot
help but feel sad to see a heart that will not open up to the Spirit. this
message changes lives!!! Why is it that we dont listen? I know that in some ways I am no way different from that lady. I still have rooms within my heart that I
need to open up, but my invitation to all of you is that you listen. I will do
the same. God wants to speak to us. He does it through the scriptures, through
prayer, through men and women that have been given the authority to speak in His
name. we need to open up to them to let Him in.
Love,
Elder Williams
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| Presenting Elder Fasshauer from Lima, Peru. |
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