Thank you for your letters - emily, thank you for your 5 letters..
This
week, my teaching skills were challenged many times. Teaching is not
only teaching to their needs, but also being the example of what you
teach. That being said, we are always teaching.
Here are the people that made my week a challenge;
Tatiana
Prado, age 45, her husband`s a member. She comes to many activites and
Church a few times. We taught her the gospel of Jesus Christ and tried
putting a baptismal date. She`s very catholic and wouldn`t accept a
date. Ok, if Christ were here teaching you, would you do what you says?
Yes. How can you know what he wants or His will? Praying. So if God
answers your prayer that this is true and the right path to follow will
you follow it? No.
?? Why. Just accept a date and you`ll see miracles happen. It was
very tense and was an hour long. It was like a bull. I had to watch
every move and say the right thing or I would be dead.
Maritza
Lara, 33, returned missionary and inactive in the church. She`s had a
ROUGH time since she`s been back. One terrible thing that happened to
her was that her mom committed suicide and people would tell her that
there`s no hope, even the best of friends. She would cry until there
were no more tears. It was sad. What could we teach? She wouldn`t even
let me talk. Everytime I tried, she would cry or make an evil face. It
was also a little scary. We gave her a priesthood blessing and left
D&C 121-122 to read.
Mariabel Sabalaga, 55, daughter is member (young
women`s stake pres) and her other daughter wants to get baptized but
can`t get permission from Mariabel. She has a TON of doubts about the
book of mormon and Josè Smith. I would try explaining or having her read
but she would just say to me sharply, ``It`s not obligatory!" Then how
are you supposed to find out that it`s true if you don`t read the
evidence! ``I have asked many people about it and I`m fine". Uhh
Daniella Arze, 23, very religious and active in her
church. Sister`s a member. She accepted a lot of things we taught her
and we did it using her bible and basically convinced her. Many hard
questions as well. As we finished the lesson, I invited her to pray.
``Yeah, I`ll pray, but i`m sure it`s not true!" Even if God says it is?
``I`m positive my church`s true". Way to humble yourself before God!
Ruth, 50, Laura, 29, Mother and Daughter are
teachers in the Catholic Church and know the bible in and out. Her other
daughter and son are members of the church. They kept making many
indirects trying to bash the church. I just shrugged them off and kept
my smile. I only made it to the Great Apostasy because of their many
comments.
Felix Herrera 15 and Alex Herrera 12, Parents are
inactives in the church. These two kids are VERY inteligent. We`ve been
teaching them for a long time and I was going to drop them. Alex was
ready to get baptized but wanted to do it together with his brother.
Felix said he was missing "something". We read Acts 2:37-43 and talked
about baptism. He said that he was afraid. 1 John 4 - God is love. v18
"There is no fear in love, but perfect love casteth out fear." Ch.5 v.3
"For this is the love of God, that we keep His comandments." Boom. He
accepted! Yea! Let`s see if we get a baptism this week.
-Elder Walker
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