Well, this week has been pretty awesome. My Spanish has catapulted into mediocrity finally. I can actually kinda understand these people! Oh, and I have been broken down and built up 4 times over by God's refining fire just this week alone. A mission is such a humbling experience, you face every single one of your flaws, but that's how you get better.
We had an awesome experience this week.We had been praying hard to be able to find more people to teach that God has prepared. We were feeling pretty beat up that every single one of our teaching appointments feel through, and all our efforts to find more people were coming up empty. We get an hour each week other than emails to use the computers to look up conference talks or other teaching stuff we might need for a lesson, and my companion suggested we just take it early this week as nothing else seemed to be effective. When we went to the library, we ran into an old investigator that Marte and the other missionary had taught. He still wasn't interested, but happily gave us 7 new references! The man even used google maps to show us their addresses. We went right away and the first 2 families we talked two were very interested and we set return appointments to teach them. One was a newly married couple and the other was a man with a wife and 3 kids. The man in the newly married couple had all these questions about the bible and why there are so many churches, and we were able to answer all of them! And the wife had taken lessons from sister missionaries way back in 09, and wanted to be baptized, but her father didn't like the missionaries and sent them away, but she is really exited to learn now with her husband.
I have never been so exhausted but so exited for the next day. Doing God's work is so awesome, you feel him and the Savior helping you every step of the way, and just when you have about given up for the day, he sends a miracle.
It is getting warmer, right now it is almost 43 degrees! We are wearing just our white shirts right now, and believe it or not, it feels warm.
No comments:
Post a Comment