Another fast week filled with interesting experiences.
I have time for one story so here we go.
In
my area there is this one area called CocorÃ. It is kind of famous here
in Perez because it holds the reputation of being the dangerous
neighborhood. But... it is the best neighborhood for missionaries
because the people that live there are a lot more humble than
everybody else here.
When we were contacting in Cocori one
of the members told us that there was a house that used to accept
missionaries a couple of years ago. So with nothing to lose, we decided
to contact the house. we met a 19 year old girl named Melissa who at
first said," I am Catholic and I have no interest in changing..." like
most people say here. But then we just started talking to her. After
about 10 minutes of just talking she asked, "well, what do you guys
teach?" And we started teaching a little bit about the plan of salvation.
She then opened up and told us that her mom was a huge drug addict and
was living in the street and eating out of garbage cans and a bunch of
other stuff and Melissa was getting fed up of taking care of her mom. We
said that we would help her with her situation and would stop by later
to talk to her mom. Well we tried passing by 3 times, but the mom hid
from us every time. Finally we caught the mom by surprise and she said, "
Finally you guys got me!!" She then said that she has been praying to god
that he would send angles to help her break her addiction. She then
said that she felt really guilty because every time after she prayed we
stopped by and she hid from us! So we started teaching her too and
dropped off a pamphlet of the plan of salvation. Two days later we
stopped by and she had read half of it and had a lot of questions and
really liked it!
It just goes to show that we can be answers
to peoples prayers without even knowing it. She also taught me that even
when we beg for help from above, sometimes we reject the help that he
gives us, because we know that it will require a lot of work on our
part. But, it will always be worth the work in the end
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