It´s so fun to see you
guys as missionaries and to imagine you doing TRC and all that.. I
still am not completely sure how to explain exactly what it is you´ll be
doing on your mission but I know you´ll bless many lives! I´m sad that
Nick wasn´t baptized. I´ll keep praying
that he works it out.
Our people last week all turned out to be not so
great. We´ll continue to try to talk to Alexandro, but he´s just been
at his girlfriend´s house the whole week after he had surgery. N
and V are a part of some intellectual, non-religion group and they
just wanted information to bring to their group and talk about us. It
was really irritating... not the first time someone has faked interest
just to turn our words against us in the end. You can always tell the
difference in the spirit of those lessons and you just have to leave.
We´ve been working really hard this week and it´s
been really hard but one of those weeks I feel I´ve learned a lot. Sometimes
you just have to be in a situation you think you can´t handle so you can
learn to trust the Lord. And it´s been going a lot better than I
thought already! I´m learning so much about how to communicate with
others and make them feel I care about them, and how sometimes it´s up
to you to make a situation funny or less tense.
The miracle came at the end of the week when our
zone fasted for everyone to have someone at church to be baptized the
next week. They came late, but all at once four investigators arrived
together, three are friends and another we did NOT expect. A is a 20-year-old who Sister Christensen was working with before
but we dropped him because he didn´t seem interested. But we saw him on
the street with his friends last week and invited them to come and all
three came. R kind of follows the crowd but accepted baptism,
I is more committed than all of them and the most interested but
doesn´t technically live in our area, just spends all of his time here.
A's been looking up things on the
internet about the church so he at least is thinking about it a lot,
enough to come to church. Today we´re going to talk about the Book of
Mormon with them and get them pumped about the truth!!
J was the other guy who came. We had taught him
the first lesson and I think he has problems expressing himself and is
a little bit of a scorpion (someone who just wants to talk to
sisters)... so we´re going to teach him with some men from the church
to see what he really wants. He really did seem to like church a lot
and he was all happy afterwards when we talked to him and said he had
prayed after the first lesson and already feels God is blessing him. He
was really excited to read the Book of Mormon. We´re trying something
new where we only have our investigators read a few verses and we give
them a specific question that the verses will answer. Sometimes we
don´t think about the fact that people don´t really know how to read the
scriptures.
I have such a strong testimony about the Book of
Mormon. I was reading in PMG today about the reasons why each writer
wrote their part in the Book of Mormon. They really saw our days and
this Book is for us to teach us how to live to return to God! When we
carry this book and present it to people, we really need to remember how
valuable of a treasure it really is to us and for the world.
Pray for us to be able to really baptize. Usually
the hard part is getting people to church, but here that´s not the
problem. But this is a great ward and the Lord is trusting it with
SUPER elect people. The members here really have a focus on sending
each new convert to the temple and they really take care of each other.
I have just one more bit of sad news this week,
that Antonio, my recent convert, passed away last week. Sister Johnson
called me and they're going to keep working with his wife Joselia. I´m
grateful to at least have given him the gospel at the end of his life.
His health problems kept him from doing many things, but he always
wanted to be at church and in the end he did stop smoking. Now his
spirit is happy and resting and he doesn´t have to suffer with his weak
heart any more.
I love you all so much and I´m so grateful for all
the things the mission is teaching me and the person God is making me.
I love my Savior and the peace and hope He can give us in our lives. I´m
thankful for his love. I hope your week is awesome and that you face
all the challenges and heartbreak of the mission with patience and hope.
We´re on the winning side!
Com todo meu coração,
Sister Moore
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