Guess
what I ate this week! OCTOPUS! Little baby ones! We went to an investigator’s
house and he offered them to us and I thought what the heck why not?! So I ate
one! Eyes, brain, tenticles and everything haha it was awesome! We had a pretty
slow week until Sunday which I will talk about in a little bit. Earlier in the
week though we met with our investigator C who just needed to stop smoking and
she talked about her meeting she had with Bishop D and she said that was it,
she was done smoking and she WOULD be baptized on Feb 16. So instead of
teaching the lesson we had planned we started getting her baptism ready! Took
us a little by surprise we didn’t think we were going to have any baptisms
together this transfer but what do you know! The Lord blesses you if you work
hard. So Sunday was a really awesome day! We met with a new investigator that
the Spanish missionaries handed off to us and it went really well we taught the
plan of salvation and focused it mostly on the guy that the Spanish
missionaries said "wasn’t interested or very friendly" he accepted it
all and said "It just makes sense." We are going back to teach both
of them next Sunday again! After that we had an appointment with a less active
guy that we have been trying to get in with since I got here. His wife is
recently active in the church again and the husband just needs to get things
turned around. He wants to but just is struggling. So we went in and his wife
was asleep but he said we could talk to him so we sat down and we taught him
the restoration and the spirit was super strong. When we were talking about how
the gospel blesses families I felt like we needed to talk about being sealed
and I asked him if that’s something he wants to do. He said yes and I told him
"then there are a lot of things you need to change in your life." I don’t
usually tell people that straight up but it got his attention and we then told
him we wanted to help him and the member we had with him wanted to help him. We
went through the story of Joseph smith and we asked how long it had been since
he read and prayed to know if the church was true. It had been a few years so
we told him to do it again and we all bore our testimonies of the church and it
was so crazy how much the Spirit was there. Afterwards he told us that
"that was exactly what I needed to hear right now." It was really
neat. A couple of other neat things this week...
Elder B and I were reading in PMG and read that we should strive
to find families and realized we haven’t been really STRIVING. So we began
praying not just to find people to teach but to find families. So on Monday
night we got a referral from a guy kind of weird one and it was just a postcard
type thing that had a house and said SOLD across it. He told us someone new
moved in and might want the gospel. So the next day on exchanges we decided we
were going to contact it and then tract the street and I just kept telling
myself that the family was on THAT street. The house we tried wasn’t home and
people mostly didn’t want to talk to us... I must also mention really quick
that I had been praying that when I met the family I would know exactly what to
say and that the Spirit would guide my words. Well my contacts were all just
going normal. Not bad but definitely not the best. Well we got to one door and
a lady answered it and this is how it went.
"Hello, we are
missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. We are going
around sharing a message about Jesus Christ and his role in the plan that our
Heavenly Father has for us. Do you believe in God?"
"Yes"
"Do you believe that he loves
you?"
"Yes"
"How do you know that he
does?"
"You know I’ve never really
thought about that. I guess I just feel it when I pray."
"Definitely... And he has given
us so much to show us his love. This beautiful earth and even our families even
though sometimes it’s kind of rough to raise a family isn’t it?"
"Oh yes. haha"
"Well God has done something
through all time and that is call prophets to help guide us in the things we do
and help us raise our families with values that will help us to always stay
close. Do you know what a prophet is?"
"Someone like Moses or
Noah? They talk to God right?"
"Right! So what if you
heard that Moses was in LA? What would you do?"
(From the other room)
"False Prophet!!"
"Honey! Be nice! Actually
come over here this is interesting!"
"I can hear from
here."
"No come here!"
(He gets up and comes over with a kind of okay let’s get this
over with.)
So we talked about prophets and how you would
want to know if he was true or not. Then we told him that there IS a prophet
today and he guides the church and helps us know how to return to live with
Heavenly father. But we don’t go and just tell people this and tell them to
believe us but we teach them HOW they can know for themselves and how much it
will bless their lives.
By the end the husband had tears in his eyes and
they told us we could come back! We are going back this next week and I know that’s
the family I prayed for! Even if nothing turns out with them right now. I was
supposed to meet them. After that contact we didn’t have another amazing
contact like that again. It was awesome! Anyways those are my miracles for the
week! Love you tons! Have a great Valentine’s Day!
