I should really write stuff down. That´s
what I did last week, but this week I´m forgetting. Let´s see, we did
service, we preached, teached, and baptized. That´s to stress the
importance of writing in a journal, thoughts, impressions, etc.
We put some of my ideas in action this week and put
good 10 dates for baptism. Some of them were a familia, Pablo Mamani,
his wife Hilaria, their kids and their nephews. We found them looking
through the area book. Some Elders taught them in 2009. They are
seriously prepared to enter. They all came to church this week and met
the bishop and everything. We are also preparing a marriage for them at
the end of this month. They are some of the humblest people that I´ve
ever met! More news coming from them in the weeks to come.
Another idea that we did that I didn´t mention (and
probably shouldn´t). Saturday was the day of testigos de Jehova
(Jehova´s witnesses) and alot of them came to my area. I´m a nice guy
and say hi to them. Of course. Then as they contacted people and then
left, I contacted and knocked the same doors. I asked them if they know
why there are so many churches because many come to their door and how
could they know which is true. It works because the people are a little
confused by so many religons. I don´t to bash the jehova´s witnesses
because I know that they help people believe more in God and sometimes
prepare the way for the restored Gospel.
We had a baptism this week. His name is Crisologo.
He´s in his late 60´s or early 70´s. Intense right? I actually talked
about him to you guys about 4 months ago when I talked about his wife
that passed away and we taught him The Plan of Salvation. He was the
first investigator that I talked to here in Sucre. We was a little weird
before. We explained the restoration and the book of mormon about 5
times to him. He said weird stuff like he didn´t like the Sacrament
because it was blessed by sinners. Then he read the story of Lot in the
bible when he got drunk then got with his daughter... he questioned his
faith in the bible. Yeah, so we dropped him like 3 months ago. THEN
about a month ago, we felt like we should visit him again. We started
teaching him and he accepted everything and progressed really well!! I
think he believes that he´s going to die. He always says in his prayers
that his children could make it to his house this year before he dies.
And I actually believe him. At least he´ll die happy!
So in a personal study this week, I studied Jacob 5.
It was really interesting as I applied it to my area. There´s one verse
in there that the servant is asking the master of vineyard why he
planted the seeds in most unfertil place. The Master says that he knew
what he ws doing and he took care of it a loong time. So the most
unfertil place was very fruitful while the ''good choice spot'' was only
half fruitful. That´s like my area here. The spots where you think you
couldn´t have a success has the most investigadors there while the other
part of our area isn´t that fruitful.
Now go and enjoy your summer break!
-Elder Walker
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