Hey guys!!
This was another awesome week filled with beautiful little miracles.
We had another lesson with Nancy this week and we talked about the
Book of Mormon. It was really powerful and she has the perfect
scenario to be baptized. It will just be up to her, as with everyone,
but she lives with her aunt who is a member, who is also a ride to
church every week. The members son is a return missionary. And her
kids love going to church. She has everything going for her at this
point, and the spirit is definitely working on her. At the end of the
lesson elder Lewis extended his first baptismal commitment and it was
great! She accepted to work to the goal of February 4! It was awesome.
Another day we received a call from a lady asking to see if we could
come by and see her. We said yes and set up a time and that was about
it. We showed up, and found out she was a member of 10 years but
hasn't been to church for a good 7. She is a really nice lady and
really want to come back with her family. She has a daughter who is 17
and her husband are both members. The daughter wants to come back too,
and to make it even more special, her soon to be husband says that he
was taking the lessons in mexico and wants to baptized. We havnt met
him yet, but it could be good.
As we are walking out of the lesson, we went over to the corner of
the parking lot to unlock our bikes. As we are about to leave a truck
with a big trailer cuts us off and asks if we ca n talk for a second.
He seems super nice so we say yes. He gets out and stats talking. As
soon as he starts talking I realize we are completely cut off, between
a gate, a brick wall and a truck to finish off the triangle. We sit
there for over an hr listening to him, in a very friendly, almost too
close and touchy, way tries to convert us to Catholicism. It was
pretty weird. Almost nothing he said made sense and it was super
weird. And the only way we got out was by basically me asking about
what i should study to learn more. We tried so many time to leave and
it j use never worked.. But during all this I wasn't as mad as i
thought i would have been. Here is this crazy little guys hugging me,
telling me this crazy doctrine and wasting our time, and i felt the
sprit really strong. It was actually really cool, because it kept
confirming to me that our church really is the true church. That we
are doing what the lord wants and that he is pleased with our work. It
was special. Super nice guy, just super confused.
We had five investigators to church yesterday! And the inactive and
her daughter came too. It was awesome! At church a hermana comes up to
us and tells us about a friend of hers named nuvia, and how she has
had a really hard last couple of months. She is now in the middle of a
divorce and wants god to come closer to God. We went over the same
night and met her. Shel is. Vey nice and is definitely searching for
help. she seems very scared to try coming to church, not sure why, but
the sprit was very strong and she was crying, and seemed sad when we
were only able to be there for a bit. We have another lesson set up
this saturday.
Then to wrap up the week with the sprit, the other elders in our ward
had a baptism and Nancy and her daughter came and seemed to love it.
The baptism was two kids and and Nancy's daughter was so excited when
she found out that she could be baptized to. The was the goal of
getting them there and it was beautiful. Her daughter just turned 8
and that was talked about in one of the talks before the actual
baptism.
I lobe baptisms, of course for what they are and the blessing that
come, but just being there is such a special thing. even though you
may not be the one being baptized. The spirt testifies to you that
this person is doing the lords will and that he is pleased, just like
when Jesus was baptized. Experiences like that have really helped me
grow my testimony and faith in this church. I know that this really is
Gods church, and that if we really are trying our best to follow what
he asks us to do, even tho its hard sometimes, that he will bless us
and help us through the hard times. I love this gospel and am so grateful I still get six more months to serve my King.
I love you guys and hope you can see the hand of the Lord throughout your week.
Love,
Elder Miller
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