Well this week I can say that
mericales happen. so last week and also for like ever since I got here we
have had trouble getting people to go to church we have had like 1 or 2 people
at church, but it was like a problem in the whole zone too. so we did a zone
fast that our plans we made to get people to church would work out.... and well
wouldn’t you know it, IT DID!!! the zone doubled the number of people in
church and the lord blessed us with 8 investigators! it was so Awesome!!
Our bishop also began to reorganize
the home teachers. less actives come to church this week. so changes are
happening and the ward is excited. I got to talk on Sunday, and I had
prepared my talk to be 10 min... it was more like 8 min and 45 sec. then right
before the meeting started the bishop told me... oh you talking for
15 min!!!! hahah I was like well.... fart. hahah so I come up with a few
stores and stuff and in the end it all worked out. I shared the story of dad
coming back to church and the role that the home teacher had in it and the
effect that it has had, and is now having on many people’s lives. I
even got some people to cry... including myself hahah.
We are super focused on
our zone goal of 20 baptisms this month. we had lunch at the stake pres. house
Sunday and we told him about this goal... he said if we got 20 he will buy
pizza for the whole zone...Man if you want to motivate elders just get them
pizza! hahah so now we are super excited. this week we marked 3 dates for the
29th... in effort to help reach the goal of 20. we had a cool experience
with one investigator, we marked a date with him and then invited him to offer
the closing prayer... they lesson hadn’t been very spiritual or very
powerful and I didn’t even really know if he had understood what we were
teaching him. but in his prayer he prayed so fervently that the lord could
prepare him to be baptized on the 29th. as he prayed the spirit filled the room
and I was filled with peace. It is truly amazing to me how God, the creator of
all things and the master of the universe, stops and listens to his children
when they pray with real intent. He loves us so much that he was aware of
us as we kneeled in a dark house in a small city at the end of the
day... truly amazing.
We met a new family this week. The
2nd counselor in the bishopric works for a company called herbalife (is it
big in the usa) and he has a "boss" who is very successful in
the company. we visited their store and they had a cioffietabel full of
photo albums from all over the world... San Francisco, curses, all this places.
so we began talking to him and his wife, they were so receptive. I was truly shocked... he
admitted that he was missing a lot on his spiritual side and needed to be
strengthened. we explained to him how the church functioned and he
commented that a while back his daughter had been married in our chapel; he recalled
the feelings of peace he experienced as he entered the church. He accepted
graciously the book of Mormon and invited us to comeback. we will return this
week but I am super excited to go back he is a man that could truly help the
church here in this city.
well I am just lost in the lord’s
work. thank you for the prayers!
