Hola familia y amigos,
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| Elder Williams and his companion, Elder Barillas |
This week has been really hot! Thank goodness 'Ive gotten used to it. I
think when I get home I will feel cold for like a year or two until my blood
cools down to a normal temperature.
On Wednesday we had a nice day. We taught Enrique. He is the father of the Alberto family. He is really progressing. He is reading the Book of Mormon and
he wants to get baptized. He´s not too sure about when, but he is really
thinking about it.
We also found some new investigators that night. We were knocking doors,
and a guy let us in. He was really friendly and he really like to talk, and
as we finished up teaching him, we invited his wife who was (who had woken up
from a nap during the lesson) to join us in the prayer. When he left to invite
her, she came storming in saying "there is no way I am going to pray with you
guys! I am a Pentecostal and you haven't even mentioned the Holy Ghost in your
little lesson." She continued to say more false things about what she thought we
believed. We tried to explain to her that we had taught about the Spirit. We had
just read John 3 which talks about the baptism of the Spirit when we had
finished the lesson. She wouldn't take it. We invited her husband to give the
last prayer and he said no, and then she said "that´s it then! That's my sign! I
am going to leave my husband because if he is not capable of praying he is not
capable of me!"
These are just some of the crazy things that happen to us during the
day.
On Thursday, we taught Mario. He is an older man that his an extreme desire
to get baptized. It's hard to teach him, because he has a lot of health problems,
but he understands everything we teach him. The stake patriarch came with us to
the lesson. It was awesome!
That same night we had a family home evening with Pilar and the majority of
her family members that are not members! It was a big success. I made brownies. It was a nice way to break the ice with some of them, and clarify that their
grandmother/mother is in a good church.
We also were able to teach Hugo and Lorena that day. They are the Chilean
family that we found forever ago. They were really progressing well, but they
left on vacation. They are still doing well. they read the Book of Mormon every
night to their daughter.
On Saturday, I had to do a baptismal interview for the sister missionaries
and we also had a great lesson with Luis. He is an investigator that we taught a
month ago that was really promising, but we lost him because he was visiting
family members, but now he´s back, and he seems really open to investigating the
church. We are going to have Pilar come with us one day, because she also
suffered a stroke like him, and have been through similar problems.
On Sunday, 4 investigators came to church. Two of them were people that we
invited. Katia, an old investigator came because the EQP invited her, and a Haitian woman showed up during the meeting, and she didn't speak barely anything
of Spanish. she went to the gospel principles class and I was thinking, "what
are we going to do"? I just felt like I had to do something, so I left the class
with Elder Barillas, we found a brother with a car, and we went to go find Marjori. She is a less active member who is Haitian. We got to her house and her
baby was screaming. We said that we needed her help, and she said she couldn't,
but we asked again, and she agreed. while she went to go and change, the baby
stopped crying, and in the car ride to the church and the rest of the meeting,
the baby didn't make a single sound. It was a miracle. It was also a miracle to
see the face of the Haitian woman light up when she saw someone who spoke her
language enter the room it was a nice experience!
That night, we had a very powerful lesson with the Alberto family. Enrique
wasn't there, but his wife and daughter in law were. They still haven't felt like
they had received an answer so we are working really hard with them, so they can
really feel the truth of theses things. They have to learn to nourish the seed
so it begins to swell with in them and become desirous to them.
It was a crazy week this week, but I am so thankful to be a missionary for
Christ´s church. I know that this is His gospel.
Love,
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Elder Williams
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