i
didnt have any schizos yell at me during sacrament meeting... but we
did have an investigator come to church for all three hours AND stay for
the baptism of an 8 year old girl in the ward after!!! LESS GOOO. its
so hard to get people in our sector to go to church, and even though
joaquin came to general conference, it had been a long time since
somebody had gone to a sacrament meetting. like multiple months.
speaking
of joaquin... haha. so we went to our appt with president last
Tuesday.. and he ended up dropping him basically in the lesson! hey we
went down swinging. he was our last chance of baptizing this change adn
we wanted him to progress so bad. But president got in with us and after
teaching the plan of salvation he just wasnt opening his heart up to
the spirit. President pretty much told him look Elder Allred and Elder
Ammirati are going to pass by in 2 days
and you are going to decide if you want to find out if the church is
true of not. its not their decision its yours. so you can pray and find
out, or never know. but its your decision. the guy was super super
prideful. when we asked if he wanted to be with his wife again who died a
few months ago, he was pretty much indifferent about it. so we passed
by again adn he hadnt prayed and still didnt want to. it was an amazing
experience. At the beginning Pres. Dìaz basically just hammered him with
about 15 questions and pinned down exactly what it was we needed to
teach. hes a machine. i love him. the spirit was so strong, but like it
says in 1 Nephi 33:1 we can only invite the spirit into the room, we
cant force anyone to allow it into their hearts.
we
did however see the blessing of trusting in the Lord this week. we
dropped joaquin, we dropped Leo (same problem), and we dropped Jorge and
karen(they think theyre going to live in Miami but theres no way).
which left us with pretty much zero investigators. we almost didnt teach
this week, but we worked hard to find better investigators that God is
preparing for us. And thats when we found Catalina.
The
Calderon family was baptized in concepcion, active for about ten years,
endowed, sealed, and 3 of their 4 kids were baptized. then the two
oldest daughters went inactive, so the parents stopped going, their 16
year old son came out gay, and they went went completely inactive. but
when we passed by last week the dad let us in and in teh middle of the
lesson catalina, who is 10 years old, told her dad that she needed to be
baptized. he works in santiago 7 and 7, so he wasnt there, and the mom
still hasnt come around to sharing with us, so catalina came alone to
church!!! i immediately went back adn listened to Elder Nielsons talk in
conference about how children have the potencial to change others
hearts and the responsibility we have to give children a chance in teh
church. this little girl is awesome and super smart. shes gonna keep
progressinga and hopefully she brings her family with her!
well
guys. the church is true. there is zero doubt about that. if you dont
believe it, search for it. its when we have spaced ourselves from our
Heavenly Father that we dont comprehend why he allow certain things to
happen. but there is a lesson and blessings in everything he does for
us. I know it.
i begin to train the next referral secretary next wednesday. we go to santiago on tuesday so i dont think ill have p day until next saturday. Keep it trill folks.
-Elder Allred - Chilean street raptor
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