So what a week.
Well Tuesday we had divisions. I was
with Elder Salazar from Mexico City. They call the people from there
Chilangos. He talks different but I could still understand everything.
We had a interesting lesson with a man that we found Sunday while we
fasted. His name is Benjamin. We went to his house and started talking.
He talks very poetically. It is weird. But he is a good guy. He lived in
California for 7 years but he can not remember a lot of the English he
learned. We kind of got nowhere in the lesson so we left him the Book of
Mormon and invited him to read it and pray. He did not say he would but
he looked a little interested.
Wednesday, we decided to go and visit an active
Sister in the ward who is kind of elderly. She has been a member of the
church for a long time. Like 40 years. So this was the first time we had
visited her. We got there and she received us good. Then we pulled out
the Book of Mormon and asked if she had been reading hers. She asked us
who we were to ask her if she had been reading. That's when we got kind
of shocked. We told her we just wanted to read with her a little. She
then asked us if we could answer a question for her. Where is talks in
the Bible about the Book of Mormon. So we showed her a couple prophesies
but that did not satisfy her. she wanted to see the names of the
prophets and the civilizations. We told her we could not but there is a
way she could know of the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon. By
praying and asking. She said she had been doing that for many years but
the answer she feels is to read the bible and find it there. So we then
all got on our knees and each said individual prayers to see if the Book
of Mormon was true. We asked her what she felt when she prayed. She
said peace and joy. We asked her if she believed that that was her
answer. She said she did not know and she would have to continue
studying. We asked her about the prophet and Joseph Smith, but she does
not think they were prophets. Just inspired men. This visit just really
shocked me. A member of 40 years that still has doubts. She said she
only joined the church because we offered a bible study class that she
liked. We will continue working with this woman. I wish you could see my
journal entry that day. It was like 20 pages long.
We saw Benjamin again on
Thursday. When we got there he had his Book of Mormon on his lap with a
smile on his face. We asked him where he was in the Book of Mormon and
he said in the Book of Jacob. Me and Rios just looked at each other and
smiled. Almost 50 chapters in 2 days. He had been going to town. We were
just in awe this whole lesson. He explained to us the whole story of
Nephi and we helped clarify somethings. He said he wanted to go to
church Sunday. So we passed for him.
On
Friday we started off the day in low spirits because we were not having
a lot of success. It got to about 6 and we had had 2 lessons. Then i
had the idea to go and see an old investigator who owned a cake shop. So
we went and passed by his shop to get to his house when a woman stopped
my companion. I did not see it because I was walking in front of him, so
i kept walking. I got like a block away when I heard the whistling.
This woman was from Cuatza and she was a member that was going to be
here for a couple months. Then she told us that we needed to baptize her
husband who lived here so that he could baptize their son. She said
that her husband really wanted to be baptized. We were just stunned.
Then to make things better, she bought us giant pieces of cake. God
really does know how to lift our spirits. That is what we needed. We had
a good rest of the day.
Sunday was great. Benjamin came and loved it. A good amount of people showed up. It was just a good day.
That's it for this week. A difficult, but rewarding week. I love you all
and I love this work. Stay firm. Love you all. Till next week.
Elder George de la Selva
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| Me and Rios with our fresh haircuts. |
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| My turtle friends that were eaten later that day... |
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