We have started
changing how we are working here in the area. We have a good group of
people that are progressing in the gospel, but I have really been
working hard on finding families lately. I have found that it is
realllly difficult to find families knocking doors because usually only
one person is home.So we are now trying to get to know everybody in the
ward and have a lesson with them at their house to try and get them to
trust us and give us references. Well, it has been working greatly so
far.
This week we showed up at a members house to visit them
and they asked us if we could help them clean out their neighbors house
that was full of garbage so that they could rent it out to someone.
Obviously we said yes, but I didn't know what I was agreeing to.. when I
walked in, there were literal mountains of garbage and dirt throughout
the whole house. and the backyard looked like a dump. We spent the next 6
hours cleaning out the house... luckily all of our night appointments
canceled. After cleaning out the house, they gave us 3 part member family references!
Also..
I had a cool experience last week. We have been visiting this family that lives
close to the church and the mom is super great. She reminds me of
grandma Cathy and grandma Lisa mixed into one person. She is super
active and works in the temple. Anyways, the last time we were there her
sons girlfriend just happened to be there and so we taught a lesson
with her. While we were teaching, the moms daughter came out of her room
and started listening. As the lesson ended the daughter said, "if I don't get married is it possible that my son can get sealed to my mom so that
he doesn't get lost in heaven?" and the room got super quiet. I had no
idea how to answer that question.. but I'm currently studying the answer.
Anyways, the daughter has been inactive for years and nobody knew why.
But just from that one question, it all made sense!
We went
back to the house yesterday and just the mom was there and she said
"THANK YOU SOO MUCH" we had no idea what she was talking about but then
she started to explain why. Supossedly she had gotten into a yelling
match with her son about how he chose his girlfriend over going to
church on Christmas and the girlfriend didn't understand why it was such a
big deal, but then after talking about it we showed up
and the girlfriend saw how important the church was to the mom and got
super interested in the church. Then she said that she was amazed that
her daughter came out to listen to our lesson and she hasn't wanted
anything to do with the church for years. After we left the daughter
said.. "I don't know why I started listening to them this time, I just
felt like there was something different about the new gringo elder.. the
way he talked just made me feel like I needed to listen. And then the
girlfriend said the exact same thing. Apparently the girlfriend liked it
so much that she didn't drink wine with her family on new years and she
now doesn't drink coffee in the mornings either. Who knows what is going
to happen, but it made me feel super good. Lots of times in the mission
and in life, we are just put in the right place and the right time. If
we let the spirit guide us in what we need to do and say, we can be the
means by which God works miracles.
Not a lot of pictures this week... Just a scorpion that we found walking down the street 
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