Well, once again another week just flew by! Starting with a
fantastic P-day! We ended up going to the Science Musuem in Cambridge which was
pretty dang sweet. Our ward mission leader who owns a bunch of panadarias-
hispanic bakery, was able to get us in for free, so that was a nice little
treat. I unfortianately was not thinking that day, so I did not get any
pictures. I hope you all will forgive me. If I go back (which I
probably will) I will make sure to take some.
We were able to get contact
Jessica who is an inactive member who loves the missionaries. She is
pretty awesome and has two little girls named Kaylee and Daniel. She and her
little daughters sure are characters. We also were able to meet with Rosario
and had a great lesson on forgiveness; one on forgiving others and one on receiving forgiveness from the Lord. It was an awesome lesson. Later that night we
were able to meet with Juan and Evalynne. Evalynne is a member, her husband isn't
and they have three little sons. Juan isn't actually very interested and
so the missionaries weren't able to meet with him for a while
but, they are an awesome family. We were there for 3 hours because we were
waiting for Evalynne to get home, so we talked a lot with Juan and his friend
Manny who is actually a former investigator as well. We were just able to get
to know them better and we talked about life and death and how the Lord has a
plan for each and everyone of us. It was a great time. Then finally
Evalynne got home with her friend Jasmine, so we had 3 non-members there!
Now, normally we wouldn't be at someone's home for 3 hours, but it ended up
turning out that way. We found out later that Evalynne actually planned to be gone that long so that her husband would be forced to meet with us and interact
since she wasn't there haha. But, it was great and a good bonding time with
Juan, so we'll see how things turn out.
We had an awesome lesson with a youth
as well about missionary work. He hasn't read the Book of Mormon and never wanted to serve a mission, but now he is pumped to serve one. It was a
great lttile lesson.
We were finally able to get the Lapops to open their
door for us. They are a less active family I was working with when I was here
last and after I left they stopped meeting with the missionaries. So, hopefully
we will be able to start meeting with them again. I love them so much. They are
great people.
Also Jack, our Detective friend, came for mutual to talk to the youth about
being a detective. It was a great turnout. We had 28 people
there. Twenty five were from our ward. And for the cherry on top, we had 14 non members
at church on Sunday; including Juan and Jasmine. Then after church, got
spoiled at Jessica's house as we ate ribs and very good steak. So, we had a
fantastic week and even though a lot of it fell through we were able to keep
busy and have a lot of successes.
As time goes by, I am reminded more and more of how
powerless I am to do this work alone. It is amazing to me that God who is
perfect, works through us, imperfect beings. It truly is a great blessing to be
a part of this wonderful work. To share these things with others so that perhaps
they too will put it to the test and come to realize who they, sons and
daughters of God, and the great potential they have and to start seeing them
change their lives is truly a joy that I cannot even come close to express.
Where there is so much good to be done there will also be opposition.
The wonderful thing though is that as long as we strive our very best to do
what the Lord would have us do, and allow him to change us and help us, we
cannot lose.
I know this is Christ's true church restored on the earth today;
that He lives, and that truly all things that we are afflicted by, will turn
out to be for our good. I know these things are true and leave with my
testimony that they are, in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
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