Week 93 - Palmdale

 

This week was crazy. First, most of the day on Tuesday was spent at Zone Conference, and there were some very good things that we learned from President. First, always make sure you're in a positive trajectory. Never get into a negative. On an infinite scale, an positive trajectory leads to an infinite positive. Ask the Lord for direction with a pen and a pencil. That will help us talk less and listen more. And it works. It is a powerful promise that was fulfilled this week. Sadly, the next day Elder Hanchett was terribly sick. We couldn't really do anything. We talked to president about Irma during Zone Conference, and he said that he wanted to come with us to a lesson, so he'll be coming with us on Wednesday. We taught her the plan of salvation and went really well, she told us she felt like it was all true and made a lot of sense and that she really wanted to go to the celestial Kingdom, we talked a little bit about the gospel Jesus Christ and invited her to make sure she's living those things now so that she can prepare to live with her father in heaven again.  she also had some questions about the Bible, she felt like there wasn't a full true Bible the earth and so we testified about the Book of Mormon and how it helps us understand all the truth together with the bible, and she likes that answer a lot. It was a very powerful lesson. So, there was a YSA woman who called the Littlerock elders and said that she knew where they lived and that she wanted to be baptized. She said that she preferred Spanish, but she didn't know a single word of it. 

   Basically it turned into us hoping that bringing Bishop would help her be calm, just to see if there was anything that we could do to help. Since she doesn't speak Spanish, but she acts like she does, she acted like she couldn't hear us whenever we spoke Spanish to her, and then started up on Sign language. There was a 5 minute conversation with her and me of just sign language. It was weird, but luckily president said that we shouldn't talk to her, so of course we shall not. There wasn't anything we could do to help her and she's just not accountable. We went by a less-active family, who I helped a year ago in Little Rock, and when we went by their friend's family was there, so we picked them up. We'll meet at the member's house and help the friends. It was a great experience. We also had a lesson with Mirna at 8 o'clock pm, and it went super well. She understood us pretty well and enjoyed the whole thing. We shared a few scriptures about prayer and God revealing His truth. One God, but a lot of interpretations of Him can't be of God. We taught that because often people say that there's one God, so any religion is OK. I hope what we said helped her lot. She accepted the invition to read the Book of Mormón and to pray. 

   There is also a super cool family we are teaching who love having us over. They're always pretty busy but we can always share just a little something. Afterwards Seni texted us and said that she loved what we shared. 

   In my Studies I learned that pacience is having hope that lasts. It turns hope into faith. We have to have hope to endure happily. 

   We also had dinner with a member who served in Tahiti and baptized so many that Elder Anderson and Elder Christofferson came down and asked what he was doing. He harpoon Ed sharks, killed boars, and is basically a legend. He was pretty inspiring. 

But aside from all that, it was a fantastic week. 

   I love you all.