Dear Family I will see in a single digit number of weeks,
Haha,
crazy to think time has flown by so fast. Just yesterday I was in La
Carlota completely oblivious to everything and now I am training someone
in the same situation! haha!
Well let me just get right
into the good stuff of the week. Well this week has been one of the
hardest weeks I have ever had when it comes to teachings! We walked and
talked and tag balay-ed all over the place, but yet our investigators
were not there... In total this week we had 13 lessons taught with a
member present. Now I said let us get into the "good stuff" so I will
explain.
Last week I talked about the Uncle and Aunt of one
of our investigators, Sister Christine. Well we had a day with very
little going on so we just planned a finding day. This was really rough
for us do to the fact that I have a new companion and sometimes it is
hard to OYM, but he was a stud and did a great job!
We
found out that to get to this area we got to walk on the beach front. So
as we are walking. There was this family outside making a small house. I
said "Maayong Hapon" which means "good afternoon," and one of the girls
(around 20 years old) kind of made fun that we were there. So what do I
do? I turn around and introduce myself in the best Illongo I could
muster and it pretty much broke her brain for a good 5 minutes. Well
this family actually ended up being a great family, the Pancho Family.
They are pretty golden and love talking with the missionaries. Sadly
they did not show up to church, but we have only visited them once so I
cannot complain!
Next we go to the Uncle of Sister
Christine, Brother Ceasar Mondejar, and he comes out with a smile on his
face with his wife and they invite us in. We share a great lesson on
prophets and invite them to church and they accepted. We came back last
Satuday, sad ot say brother wasn't there, but his wife was and his
grandchildren. We taught them as well! They all said they will come to
church and guess what? They did!!! Brother was sick but his wife and
grandchildren went and it was awesome!
In total on our
search for new investigators last week we came out with a total of 23!
They are all quality too! They are not just people we taught once and
never will again, but people we have come back to already and are super
prepared! In total 9 investigators came to church. Sister Christine,
Sister Pamela Martinete (long time investigators that just had her first
time at church, expect great things from her), 4 from the Mondejar
family in our far area, and 3 others that joined members that I still do
not know but will know soon!
Well there was one more very
humbling thing this week... I want to be better from it... For a while
we have struggled with the Martinete Family. They didn't take much
serious. They are a great family and there are many Recent Converts so
we need to keep coming back... Well
Saturday
we recieved a text from the teenage girl Fritzel. She told me how I am
to serious and need to relax and stuff the week before which put me in a
bit of a bad mood. Well the text came from one of her close memeber
friends which pretty much said that, We made a mistake/did a sin to
Fritzel and we need to visit her house. My heart sank when I heard this
text because I was just struggling so bad with them before and I did not
want to have any more problems. I will admit I got a bit hot headed and
said things I shouldn't have... Well went to her house, we nailed a
sweat lesson on the reason why us as missionaries were there. Why we are
so "serious" and things. Well after words we prayed and sister Fritzel
looks at me and says "sit there we are going to have dinner!" The kids
in this family cooked us a meal that night, they just were playing a
prank on us... I have never felt so bad for getting mad before. I pray
every day I did not offend..... They planned this meal for us and showed
such love. I am really wanting to change. This family has proved to me
that the gospel changes people, and that if these people are truly are
elect. No matter what you do they will accept the gospel! I love the
Marinete Family.
Well that was my week. At least the things
I could remember. I guess our mission is going down in obedience which
is crazy sad. So our zone training last week was focused on pretty much
chatizing and i loved it! Please if you are in contact with parents of
missionaries here, please have those parents remind their children to be
obedient! God needs us to be obedient to do this work. This week proved
it. We got 13 lessons with members and 4 other lessons, but we found 23
new investigators and 9 went to church! That was because we were
working as hard as we possibly could and being obedient!
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