Hello Familia, Amigos, y las otras personas que leen mi blog,
So 2 Saturdays ago, we met this guy
named D.. He was just jamming out in his car and he invited use to go see him
on Monday. So Monday roles around and we stop by his house and we have a super
sweet lesson. We talked to him about what he wants in life, about what he wants
to change to be better and we promised him that the Gospel of Jesus Christ
would help him if he applied it. It was just a super awesome experience. He
wants to change and be better so bad, he just doesn't know how to get out of
his rut, but we are helping him. He told us to come by the next day!
-Oh and a side note. We had to
walk home because my bike was getting fixed at the bike shop.
Tuesday.
So we walked to District Meeting,
which took about 30-35 minutes, and it was good. After we walked to the bike
shop which took us close to an hour round trip. My feet have never been more
sore, because then we decided to go and walk again and we did that for an hour
or so, and we got a lot of cool potentials. That night we had our lesson with D.
We get to his house and he is pulling out of the drive way so we just stop and
he sees us and pulls back in. He apologized and told us he had completely
forgotten, but we all jumped into his car and we taught him about the
Restoration. It was a super good lesson, and he understood super quick some of
the points of doctrine that people frequently confuse, such as the need of
Authority, the Book of Mormon, and the need of prophets! It was super bomb! We
set up for a lesson Saturday and yeah. That was basically the night.
Wednesday.
Wednesday was our rough day of the
week. A lot of people were out but we saw the Sarabia family and that went
really well. Carlos said he would like to start coming to church and the FHE
that we have. So we can tell that he can see the difference in his kids since
they started coming and he likes it. Then we saw N. We have never had a lesson, but we've left her
with the Restoration, Plan of Salvation, and Gospel of Jesus Christ pamphlets,
which she has read, along with the Finding Faith in Christ DVD, which she has
watched, and we gave her a copy of the Book of Mormon, which she is reading. It
was a little after 8 when we showed up and she was like freaking out because we
normally come earlier, and she told us that her and her boyfriend were thinking
that maybe something was wrong, like somebody was chasing us and we needed
somewhere to hide, and they were all ready to get us inside haha. It was super
funny. We are really trying to get a sit down, inside lesson with her. We'll
see if we can do it this week.
Thursday.
Thursday was pretty good. We had a
good lesson with a new investigator named L. She's cool, she came to church one Sunday with
a friend and then the second Sunday we got her info and we had a lesson on
Thursday at the church with Mosies Larios, the RM. It went super well. We
invited her to read the Restoration pamphlet, and she said she's try because
she hates reading and we agreed on 2 pgs a day, and like an hour and a half
after the lesson, she texts us and says she's already half way done with it. It
was pretty cool.
Friday.
Friday was crazy because we planned
to go down to Bloomington first, but it was good over all. We saw the Medina
family, and the Rodriguez family, they made me a belt. I'll send you a picture
of it next week! Its super nice :) But that night we had a Noche de Hogar, FHE.
It was super fun! We played Scripture Charades. Hna Jimenez took a bunch of
pictures, I'll try to get them and send them to you next week!!
Saturday was super good. We had a
mission Conference and Elder Nielson of the 70. He spoke to us about the
Atonement and the Redeeming Power and the Enabling Power. There is a lot to it
but basically the Atonement applies to every single person no matter where they
are in life. It makes bad men good and good men better. The Redeeming power
involves forgiveness from sin, and being lifted and changed. While the Enabling
Power takes us from one level to another on our way to becoming more like our
Heavenly Father. We "share the yoke" with Jesus Christ and he pulls
far more then we can and we are able to get through hard times, and sad
moments. We are able to face our trials and grow and overcome them. We went
walking that afternoon and had some super cool contacts. And we found this lady
named N. She was a referral. We invited her to church and guess what! She
came!!!
Sunday.
Sunday was good. We had L., N., and
her son at church. Noelia and Maggy were in Texas so they didn't go. But N. and
her son loved it! And they said next week they want to come and bring her other
3 kids!! Yay!! Basically everything just sort of fell through. We don't really
know what happened. I guess you can't have awesome lessons and success everyday
right haha.
But that's the week! I hope everyone
has a great week and that we remember the importance of Easter. It's the day
the Jesus Christ was resurrected. And because he was resurrected we don't have
to worry, we don't have to fear. He Lives and so will We.
#BecauseHeLives
I love you all!
-Elder Zachary Gore