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This is the first time in my whole mission I’ve seen
one of these things, felt like I saw a long lost friend!
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We have
fechas [baptism
dates] with two families! I’ll tell you about them. For the first one, their son, who lives apart
from them with his wife, gave them to us as a reference. The dad is a menos activo (less active) and
the mom isn’t going to any church right now.
She says she used to hate the Mormons because of what other pastors and
people said, but when we came and taught the first time we were different than what
she had heard. She agreed to go to
church yesterday along with her husband and kids. When we went to visit them that night, she
said she liked the church and felt good.
She also said that right before they went there, she had said a prayer
and asked that if this is where she needed to be and it was the true church
that she could feel it, and she did! She
said in all her time going to different evangelic churches she never felt that
way before. My comp and I were so happy! We ask people every day to do that exact
thing; pray to God to know if it’s true and they never do, but this Hermana did
if perfectly without even being invited to!
We quickly explained that Heavenly Father had answered her prayer
through the Holy Spirit, and challenged her to be baptized. She said she wanted to and also to get
married. We are pumped about this
family, because she has great faith and a knowledge about prayer that will help
her out a ton in preparing to be baptized.
The
other family is this is a young couple that was also given to us by reference from
a friend in the ward. The first time we
went over there we could hardly believe how great they were. They were really listening and the spirit was
very strong as we talked about the gospel of Jesus Christ, faith, repentance,
baptism, the gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end. They have such a strong desire to follow
Christ and even wanted to go to church!
That was the best part. He also
talked about the example that his friend is that gave us the reference. He had seen the change that had happened in
him, and wants to do the same. When we
went to bring them to church yesterday, we were crushed when they didn’t answer
the door! But we found out later that
they were gone because he had gotten robbed and beaten up the other night. So we went over in the afternoon and
challenged them to marriage and baptism, and they accepted! Two amazing families!
My comp
was kinda having a hard week. On Tuesday
we went over to teach at a house and he saw a soccer ball and wound up to give
it a good kick, missed the ball completely and fell right on his back. Then he got up, went to kick it again out of
anger and missed again. It was a low
blow because Monday he was feeling kinda bad about his soccer skills when we
played as a zone. Then Friday, I was on
the phone in the street, and he went to help an old lady bring in
groceries. I looked down and looked back
up and the ladies groceries were on the ground with all the fruit s and vegetables
rolling away with my companion apologizing a ton. We tried to contact her after that, but when
she saw us coming, she ran into her house pretty fast. He’s a great guy hoping
this week’s better for him.
Love you
Elder Cook
