This week was very busy and quite successful! My companion and I found 8 new investigators this week! For this area that’s really good! We normally find 0-2 a week. We also got 2 of them on date for baptism for 3/10/18! Their names are Mauricio and Everson Bautista. They’re brothers, 13 and 11, and they are friends with Noelia Montano! We’re excited for them because they said that baptism was something that they wanted. We’ll see if they can follow through because they’re young kids.
We had a good lesson with the Montano kids again this week. It was a well-needed lesson on humility. We had our mini whiteboard and markers and sticky notes and we basically explained the difference between pride and humility. Their stupid dog Molly was off the wall in that lesson — more than normal! There was one time it was sprinting around the house and threw itself on the table and slid off the other side. Dumb animal. We were still able to teach them well enough to where they understood what pride is and how we can be humble.
So Thursday night we had something weird happen. We were trying a less active on our Areabook map and right as we lift a hand to knock the door, it opens and there’s this young American guy that immediately asked if we were from the church and so we said and yes and then he like ordered us to come in...so we were pretty unsure what was about to happen but it turns out missionaries had been coming by for 7 years looking for this same member that no longer lives there! So this guy (whose a nonmember) went all out and asked for the phone number of our ward clerk and for ours and a bunch of information about the function of the church and who’s in charge and whatnot. It was strange. I’ve never had it be that thorough before!
I’m going to be honest and say that this Sunday was my very first time speaking in Sacrament meeting on my mission! I don’t know how I made it this far without doing it earlier. I was asked to speak about spiritual and temporal goals. I related Luke 2:52 to this and noted how it shows that as Christ grew older, he grew and developed physically, mentally, spiritually and socially.
52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.
Our goals shouldn’t be all spiritual nor temporal but rather all of these aspects.
We had a miracle this week. We were told by Sterling Park Elders to go visit this one guy and we called him and established to come by Sunday morning. We went and visited with him, his name is Francisco, and we found out he is a member! He has been inactive for over 30 years but decided it’s time to come back to church! It was so cool, we visited him Sunday morning and then got a ride for him to church with a member. And then in gospel principles class, the teacher found out he was a member and she asked him when did you come back to the church? And he just quickly responded: “today”. It was great. We also got the Montanos to bring Mauricio and Everson to church because they’re neighbors. Sunday was crazy. Before that lesson with Francisco, we were running to get hypothetical mission calls printed out for a youth activity we’re doing next week and I also gave a blessing to a random member.
2 people with a baptismal date, those same 2 people made it to church and we found 8 new Investigators. It was a really good week. Today we just did our normal P-day stuff and played basketball since all the libraries are closed today. We usually hang out there but not today. Que sigan fijando sus metas, así que ganen el galardón. Que tengan una buenísima semana!
New district!
I made my comp a cake
Thursday was really warm...it was in the 70s and then the next day was 30s again!
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