Let me just start out by telling a quick
story about a new friend that I met last week. It all started when my
comp and I were walking to an appointment that we had set up right
behind our house. Right as we walk up to the front door I get a phone
call. The family cancels. They never cancel. Luckily we decided to go to
a house where the investigators are always home, and they only lived
about 30 meters away from where we were. We knocked on the door and nobody
was home... I turned to my companion and asked, "now what...?" I had
barely finished the question when an unknown number calls us and when I
answer somebody says.. "Elders, where are you?" I start asking
questions, like who this person is and how he got our number, and he
starts telling me that he is an inactive that dropped the church about 3
years ago and he wants to come back. He then said that he was going to
show up outside our house in 10 minutes. It was perfect because we were
already outside and had nothing else to do! Sure enough he shows up 10
minutes later and barely gets off his motorcycle when he bursts into
tears. He completely opened up to us outside of our house and confessed
that he had been trapped in lots of addictions and a couple of scamming
businesses. After sitting and listening to him vent for about half an
hour straight we set up a plan so that we could help him come back. It
was such a crazy experience and the thing that hit me the most is that
he kept saying, "Nobody knows this. You are the only ones. You are
missionaries and you can help me. I know you can. So help."
We
also found some amaazing investigators this past week. Two twins and
their younger brother. During the first visit, we just taught one of the
twins and she said that she wanted us to help her brother because he
has been caught up in bad stuff, and doesn't listen to anyone. Well we
taught the sister all of the first lesson and left her a book of mormon.
When we came back 2 days later the brother answered the door. The first
thing I said was, "I stole your book from my sister. I started reading
it. From what I can tell, it is a book that was written by old prophets
and talks about Jesus. I need you to teach me more." It was soo crazy!
Something about the book of mormon softened his heart enough to let us
teach him! Now they are all reading the book of mormon, they came to our
English class and played basketball today with us for Pday! It's so
great!
Last miracle... (sorry this is a long email)
Last
week my comp and I were getting ready to go to San Jose to go to the
temple. On our way to the bus stop I heard somebody yell out from behind
us (in english), "Hey LDS missionaries!!!" Of course I was like... what
the heck? Then I turn around and a little Philippino came running up to
me and said. "Hi! I'm from the Philippines and I live here in Perez
Zeledon. My boyfriend is mormon from Utah and I want to marry him. His
mom says that I need to be baptized before I can get married. Can you
guys help me?" Inside I was like...... Whhaaaaaat is going on??? But she
wasn't kidding! This week she came to church and I had to translate the
meetings and teach her a seperate gospel principles class because she
can't really speak Spanish. hahaha it was crazy.
Anyways... I hope that you made it to the end. That was quite a bit and now my fingers hurt fom typing on this ghetto keyboard.
But...
as far as a testimony goes. I know the Lord watches us and blesses us
when we need it most. I have been begging for miracles to make the
mission a little bit easier (because lately it has really been beating
me up) and I love it when I can see answers to my prayers.
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