Week 96 - Palmdale

 

Hello everyone. This week was a great one, full of growing experiences and miracles. We taught the Restoration to Mirna, and she liked it a lot. We invited her to read. Something we learn from it though, was the following: On Sunday we went to Israel. His mother, Victoria, is the recent convert who recently went to the temple with us, and she is an amazing member present. Israel is paralyzed from the neck down, but we asked our mission president, and he said we should do anything possible to get anyone on the path. We taught the Restoration extremely clearly, going through each step. We asked him "If God's church was on the earth, would you follow it?". He said yes. We then invited him to be baptized. He said yes again. We also talked about Temples, and his mom testified so powerfully of them. It was a great experience.
It was a good week overall. We also went on exchanges, and Elder Vedia and I visited Irma, and she said during the lesson that God had no gender, and was just love. But we testified of the nature of God, and she said "how do you know?"
We just said that it was revealed by a prophet, and she was just like "OK."
Elder Vedia is a great elder. We got a lot of work done.
This was what we talked about during District Meeting:
We want to teach by the Spirit. How? By making sure they are given full and complete agency.
The Spirit of the Lord is the Spirit of Freedom. We must bring the Spirit into lessons. Make them want to act by their own free will and choice. How? Through pure doctrine. Sometimes we hide doctrine about Joseph Smith or whatever it might be. Being bold is declaring doctrine, not telling someone they're wrong.
If we follow the Spirit, we do not hold them on a leash, we trust Heavenly Father, since it's by faith that things are done.
Do we trust God's answers will come to them as they act on the knowledge they receive?
As they act for themselves, they will come by choice to repentance. Teach pure doctrine that will make them choose to act on the truth. They may not know for sure, but the truth, even if they don't know it's truth yet, will cause them to at least know it is good, and to ask God.
Until they ask God, they cannot know of Spiritual truths. Sometimes we scare the Spirit away without knowing.
Just let them act. God works little by little. Don't complain that everyone has agency. That's the only way the truth comes. Just teach do they want to use their agency to know more directly from God, not us.
I love you all.
Elder Sant

I'm sorry I don't have a lot of pictures, but here you go.