Well, this week was great.
It was full of horse races and teaching and walking and stuff. Also this letter will be pretty short. Sorry.
So
some great things happened this week. First off transfers were last
night and I am still with Elder Naylor which is weird because President
said he was splitting us but oh well. No complaints here.
So we did some extra work to get members out to work with us here
since the first baptisms ever of this area will be this weekend.
Manuel, our Elders Quorum president came out with us one day, and he was
super sweet to teach with. Studd. Our branch president came out
another day. It was his first time ever helping the missionaries, and
he made some good improvement during the day. The first lesson he
slammed one of our investigators about how he needs to have better
friends to stop smoking, which was okay. Not super tactful, but very
clear which is good. Slamming people isn´t something that can happen
every lesson, but every so often they can help. Our next lesson was a
little worse because he went in and started bible bashing our
investigator about tithing. One big thing that is important is that we
don´t ever really tell people what they belive is wrong, because that
usually doesn´t do any good. Instead we ask them how Christ did things
and then let them tell themselves that whatever they believe (it isn´t
really even critical to know what they belive exactly) isn´t the same as
Christ taught and had been corrupted. Then we invite them to follow
Christ. It isn´t, Your catholic baptism was wrong, it´s Christ was
baptized by immersion with preisthood authority from God at an age of
responsibility. The Scriptures are great here too.
So we have been teaching Ana and Denise. We found them through a
drunk kid that invited us into a bar and then his friend was drunk too
and we marked an appointment in the bar for another night and then when
the bar was closed that night, we gave up, but then ran into the friend
again on the street, and he said his mom (Ana) had read the pamphlet and
liked it and so we marked an appointment but couldn´t find his house
after searching for 50 mins, and so the next day right before the
appointment, we finally found it, and the kid wasn´t even home, but his
Mom and Cousin (Denise) were there and we started teaching them. They
have been to church twice and came to a baptism. We have been trying to
get them to accept baptism for weeks and finally in church
on sunday,
they were sitting with Cely who is getting baptized this week, and we
asked them if they would attend, and then also told them that if they
wanted, they could be baptized the same day. That night in our lesson,
we were talking more about Cely´s baptism, and mentioned that they could
still be baptized and Ana has been hesitant to do stuff on her own, it
has always been, "Whatever Denise wants" etc... and denise still won´t
accept a baptisimal date, but we asked, and Ana wouldn´t say anything,
but she asked for Denise´s pencil, and wrote in the back cover of her
book of mormon, "I want to be baptized on that day too." and handed it
to us. She had finally decided that doing what was right has to happen
now, even if she doesn´t have Denise to go with her to make it more
comfortable. Denise still might accept baptism this week or maybe
another day. She has a doubt we are still trying to find because she
loves the book of mormon and studies it with a dictionary in hand. This
week is going to be grand like the high flying flag!
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