This
week was awesome! We had a baptism in our ward Cheri. She was totally
prepared to learn and grow in the Gospel. The Elders met her
about 12 weeks ago, then they got transferred out and Sister missionaries
came in and started to teach her. Then they got moved out prematurely
and we finished the teaching and the baptism. She gave up coffee and
smoking from the time that the missionaries taught her about the Word of
Wisdom. She is a walking miracle.
We also met a
Pentecostal minister who started to teach us about the Bible. It was
fun that as his translator was explaining things and names that we
readily agreed with the people he was talking about and the stories he
was sharing. He was quite surprised about all the stories and
understanding we had. Oh by the way, he is from Tanzania (in Africa). We
are going to go back and ask some questions that we ran out of time to
ask last time. But, before that, there were all these people sitting on
this front porch so Elder Davis said we should go talk to them. So we
went back and the first real teaching after they asked their basic
questions of Do you believe in the bible and Jesus Christ, they then
went straight into Baptisms for the Dead. It was crazy as when one person
would walk inside another person would come outside so we would have to
reexplain what we had already said to the others and then they would
start to bring up different ideas and doctrine into the conversation. It
was great as there was a husband and wife that were there that as we
spoke and shared our testimonies and understandings that they started to
soften. But then there was this one guy that couldn't help but yell as
he was trying to show that he was right and we caught him in a few
traps of his own words. Then the pastor came and I ended up talking to
him through a translator as Elder Davis was able to talk with the
husband of the previously mentioned couple. While the wife translated
for me to the Pastor.
We also on top of all that had a Zone
Conference which was fantastic! IT was a real boost to my spirit as we
talked about how we can better teach and listen to our investigators and
other. We really worked on finding root problems and concerns instead
of trying to throw on Band-Aid (Copyright)[I don't know how to make the
symbol ;) ] on every problem or what we may think the problem is. I then
also realized that I know a lot of people. As we were there and had
some time to mingle I was able to talk to a lot of missionaries that I
had not seen in a long time.
I wish I had pictures to send
of the baptism but my Blender Bottle(copyright) broke and water-logged
my bag so I had to let the camera dry before I tried to turn it on. Yes
mom it still works.
I look forward to this next week.
Love,
Your friendly neighborhood missionary.
ps: that is Elder McCallson by the way.
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