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It's been a crazy busy week, just one
of those weeks where we cracked down and worked HARD. It was really
good. One theme I noticed from this week was the struggles and successes
our investigators are having with finding their answers to whether or
not the Book of Mormon is true. Figured I'd talk a little bit about that
today :)
Every Monday night, one appointment we've made
pretty steady is an inactive member named Danir, who is the son of our
branch's Relief Society President. He's someone I've been working with
quite a bit since I've got here, and is honestly really interesting. He
struggles with a lot of disbelief and not being able to believe due to
the way he thinks things rationally. We taught him last Monday about
prayer, and how prayer is a two way conversation. He had expressed to us
in the past that, when he prays, he prays to thank for things, but not
to ask, because he doesn't believe that God can communicate to us. We
had a really good conversation with him, and his mom, Hirondina,
contributed really well too, and we focused on that necessity of asking
things of God. We taught that if he never tried, he'd never know, so we
invited him to make asking blessings from God become a focus for him.
I'm not sure exactly what it was, but something struck him, and he
remained pretty quiet during the lesson, which is unlike him. At the end
of the lesson, he agreed to close with prayer, and included asking
things of God as part of his prayer. It was really really cool. We'll
see tonight how he's doing.
Another really cool experience
this week was with Tommy, who we've still been teaching, just a little
more sparsely. He's kinda dropped off a little bit, hasn't been reading,
hasn't been coming to church, etc. These past few weeks as we've taught
him, he's expressed frustration at why he can't get the answer that he
wants, whether the church is true or not. He's very humble in the fact
that he will recognize when he's at fault, and was willing to admit that
he knew he wasn't doing his part. On Saturday night, we had a really
powerful lesson with him, where he really opened up on his desire to
know which church is true, since his grandmother caused for him to doubt
a lot of things in a conversation they had. Tommy isn't the type of
person who talks and talks, but he went off for quite a bit about it. He
told us that now, he is ready to really put himself to the test and
read daily, and also come to church to know if what we are teaching is
true. It was cool to see him come to that conclusion based on what we
had taught him so many times.
One miracle coming out of
our area right now is a kid named Odair, who we started teaching this
past week. A few weeks back, a member brought his 13 year old cousin,
Odair, to church, and brought him again last Sunday. We weren't super
thrilled about the idea of teaching a 13 year old on his own, but we
figured, 'why not?', so we got to sit down with him this week, together
with the member who brought him, Rosivelt, and realized he's got to be
among the coolest of 13 year old kids out there. I'm pretty sure he was
more attentive than I would've been if missionaries were teaching me! He
kept eye contact the whole lesson, answered questions really well, and
showed a solid desire. When we came back to teach him on Saturday night,
we helped him identify his answer about the Book of Mormon, and he
accepted to be baptized this month :) our member went and talked to
Odair's dad to make sure it's all good too, and that's another thing
we're gunna be doing tonight :P funny how Heavenly Father prepares the
people he does :)
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