This week has been awesome,
and blessed by the Lord. On Tuesday for studies we listened to the
conversion of a Catholic priest. It was amazing. We knocked a lot of
doors. We tried to go to a Deleon family, a less active we've tried
daily to get to, who wasn't there. We then went to Brian, our first
investigator, but he wasn't home either. We did knock doors at someone
who will become a new investigator later in the week! She is Sonya, and
has the thickest Salvadorian accent ever. I couldn't understand her very
well. We then went to a referral who is moving out of our area, so we
sent the referral to other elders. We went to the Nixon family, and they
are cool. They gave a few referrals that live out of our area, though,
but they helped.
On Wednesday we went tracting for a few
hours, and had dinner with Hermano Alvarez. He is awesome, and really
nice. He reminds me of dad in his disposition and the way he holds
conversations. That night, during prayers, Elder Chamberlain asked God
for a miracle, because we need help. We weren't finding anyone.
On Thursday, we tried to call the Deleons, and when we did, Elder
Chamberlain said "Hello this is Elder Chamberlain and Elder Sant", and
they hung up! We went to mcdonald's where there was a guy whose wife's
family was Mormon, and before he left, he gave a $100 bill to us. We
called him back and said that we literally could not take it, and he
didn't care. He just left, and said "do what you will with that". We
played our weekly volleyball game that night, and it was great. Wesley, a
ward missionary, is awesome, and he said some amazing things that
answered my prayers.
On Friday we had a district meeting,
and we visited the Lindley's who gave us referrals, and then went to a
guy named Cris, who's an alcoholic with little time, but loves us. We
went to Brian with Wesley, and taught him about the importance of
reading the book of Mormon. He hasn't been progressing, and we're going
to give him two more lessons without him progressing or we'll drop him.
We went to Jorge, another investigator, but he wasn't home.
On Saturday we listened to a tape on the atonement, and it was
amazing. We went to Sonya, and she had a cousin who was a recent
convert, which was perfect because she's living with them. She cried
because her own church was so bad, and she cut us off a lot. She is
progressing, and she will watch general conference tomorrow. On Saturday
we had general conference, and we were asked to prepare questions that
you needed answered, and I couldn't think of any. Going in, I received
answers to things I really needed, but didn't consider. After
conference, we went to Jorge's house, and he wasn't there, but his
brother Juan answered. We gave him the restoration lesson, and he asked a
ton of questions. He knew so little, not even who Peter, James, and
John were, or what repent meant, and he loved that word. He loved that
it was to have no more desire to do evil and try not to anymore. I am
still surprised at how much of the gospel knowledge we take for granted.
We invited him to general conference for Sunday, and he sounded so
excited to come, but on Sunday, he didn't come.
We're
going to find out what happened there, because we were sure he was
coming. On Sunday, we had general conference, and we had dinner at a
doctor's home. He had four large dogs, and they were super cool. One of
them was only 7 months old, and came to my thigh. We had an awesome time
with them, and elder Rocha and Jacobson came too. It was fun, and that
night we went to the bishop of another ward, who provided a lot of
referrals, and that was great! The work has been growing here, and I'm
excited to be here helping it do so. I love you guys!
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