15 August 2016
Okay, this week has been a miracle week. It's been an absolute blast.
"I'm riding on heaven's flames coming up from below"
This
was our first full week in our new area, so Elder Ronces and I decided
to get down to work. Our inventory of investigators wasn't very big at
the start of the week, so we just continued with the trend we set, and
when a lesson would fall, we would just start knocking doors or talking
to people on the street, and try to teach them a lesson in their home
then and there. It's seriously so much fun to just go around and share
as much as we can, to find those elect people the Lord has prepared for
us.
On Wednesday, we had a bit of a surprise hit us when
some missionaries, Elder Arguello and Elder Thorsen, who came in from
São Nicolau for Zone Conference on Friday, called us needing a place to
stay for the week. That meant that we had an extra two missionaries in
our area to work, so what we did was we split up during those days, me
with one of them, and Elder Ronces with the other, and just get to know
and find as many people as we could. By the end of the week, we had
knocked out 36 lessons, a total I don't think I've ever hit or come
close to on my mission. During that time, we found 22 new investigators
as well. At the beginning of the week, we had a box full of Book of
Mormons. That box is looking pretty thin now... hahaha
One
of the investigators we've been working with is named Lu, she's a 27
year old single mother of a 3 year old. The Sisters had been working
with her, and expressed to us that she was really really cool. As we got
to know her, on our second visit, we began to review some stuff the
Sisters taught, and as I had seen on a sheet given to the branch
president, I thought she had a baptismal date marked for the 20th of
this month. At the end of the lesson, I said to her, "so, I know the
Sisters have already talked to you about baptism, right?" to which she
responded, "what? no..." and I was kinda taken aback, so after gathering
myself, I said, "well then, we'd like to talk to you about baptism :)",
and gave my companion his first opportunity to invite someone to be
baptized. She accepted a date for the 27th, and came to church on
Sunday. She's looking super boss. She's got a really incredible desire
to follow the Savior.
We also had another investigator,
named Danielson, who the Sisters had been teaching since June, who had
progressed relatively little, and was actually dropped by them. One
member showed him to us, and we focused in on him with his Book of
Mormon reading and his answer. While it was really simple, when we came
back, he explained to us that, in his prayer, he felt that he needed to
come to church on Sunday. When Sunday came around, we passed by his
house to remind him, and his mom had to wake him up, but sure enough, he
came! All last transfer, the Sisters really struggled in this area, and
had one investigator come once in 6 weeks, and on Sunday, the Lord
worked the miracle of bringing 2 :) we're coming up from below here.
We
also had a SWEET Zone Conference this week. It reunited me with some
dear friends on the mission, including Elder Bullock and Elder
Schofield, the latter who goes home in a week, leaving me the last
living missionary from my first district out here. I'm so old dang it.
President and Sister Mathews had their son, Mark, come and give a
training at ZC, and it was awesome. He really focused in on the
importance of the First Vision and Book of Mormon in teaching, and even
though I've taught about it a million times, I felt like I was
understanding it all for the first time. It was perfect for what I
needed right now, especially as we're picking up a newish area here.
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