Dear family,
Elder Calderon from the presidency of the area came this week. I
learned a couple things that I can apply. Trusting more in the Lord, and
working more with members. That`s about it.
I learning more in my area about patience. Patience and
perseverance make big problems seem small and insignificant. Everyone of
our baptisms we`ve had planned have fallen. For many small reasons also
like getting married, the desires, etc. We could have like 20
people. But I`m sure that happens in all areas. I`m tired of my leaders
in the mission. My district leader just talks about finding new people
and if we don`t find the standard of excellence for the mission, 15 new
people, he gets angry at us. He mostly focuses on my companion and I.
The other 2 elders in his district are his friends and are also in his
ward. My zone leaders, uhh, don`t even get me started. They are the
other 2 elders in my ward and are making our lives harder here. The
assistents came to our house and took away our couch, microwave, and
toaster (most of the other houses don`t have that stuff) and put them in
their house. I understand that other missionaries don`t have those
things, but what bugged me is that they put it in their house. Just hard
to follow leaders that are like that.
Sorry for the negative and now for the positive :)
This woman that we are teaching is named ilsy. She`s come to church
many times, but thinks that all churches are good. We taught her about
the restoration and the book of Mormon and thinks that its just good
also. It wasn`t until we said that it`s the only true church on the
earth. That perked her attention because she`s catholic and said ´´well
what about the other ones.´´ We had to teach her the restoration of the
gospel of Jesus Christ again, she apparently didn`t understand. We
taught her mostly about the authority and power of God, the priesthood.
It was quite interesting. After the lesson, we gave her a health
blessing because she was a little sick. The next time we came over, she
talked about how she was healed quickly because of that blessing and
believes even more in our words! It was cool to see how God works in
people. I`m sure she had enough faith to be healed and believed even
before we gave her the blessing. Miracles follow faith.
We then taught her about the plan of salvation. I don`t think I
have ever taught the plan of salvation to a married woman without having
them cry. In the past 3 weeks, I`ve had about 10 women cry on me over
their husbands, children, mistakes they`ve made, etc. I`m sure it won`t
be the last time either...
Another woman we found this week is Rosario. She came to the church
Sunday night (A week ago) to pray. We just happened to be there that
night. We talked to her to see what was up and also gave her a blessing
of comfort. All she could do was look into our eyes and say, ``what
beautiful eyes´´ ``you guys have a certain light in your eyes´´ ``you
guys have no bad in your eyes´´. Yeah, i get it. It just made me laugh.
We went to talk to her Wednesday. We taught her about the restoration
and families. She told us of a dream she had 3 years ago. She wanted to
know which church was true and in her dreams she heard the words ``the
Mormon church´´. That caught me off guard. I know she has been prepared
to hear this message of comfort and peace, which is what she`s looking
for. I wondered why she didn`t join the church earlier but I realized
that God wants us to unify the family first. Her son lives with her
sister, her parents are dead and her siblings fight all the time, and
her ex husband also causes troubles. Looks like we got alot of work to
do.
Whatever you are, be a good one
-Elder Walker
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