Whets up?!
Wow that's so cool that you are back in school, learning is awesome, the comp I have right now is the king of all little know history facts dad and useless side information and I learn really weird stuff that has nothing to do with anything. But what classes are Braiden and Caleb taking? Is Braiden going to get another car? Changes are in 2 weeks.
Well the work here in Lucerito continues, this week we had many miracles and disappointments. The work wouldn't be any fun if it wasn't a challenge and we are having plenty of challenges. It's really hard on my comp right now, because he is new and I don't think physically I have worked so hard in my mission. It is hurting him and his attitude. We don't rest haha we are always working I just fear that if I lighten up that we will miss the blessings and there are so many baptisms waiting for us I just know it. This last week we put a lot of people with baptismal dates and had a lot of people committed to attend church. I am very grateful for the one person that we were blessed with in church. Her name is Ilda, she loved the church and it was her first time there. She says she feels really good and feels like God is telling her it is the truth but says she is not 100 percent sure. But she is so getting baptized! Also guess what happened this week, so yesterday Raul and Ruby were going to go to church but they didn't go, so later Sunday night we went to their house to see what happened and when we got there he saw us and hid behind his hands and started yelling I'm sorry in English. In his prayer to start the lesson he asked God for forgiveness for not keeping the Sabbath day. It was so cool, I'm glad he feels bad (haha). but then he asked us why the world and other churches attack our church. And then before we could talk about his question he cut everybody off and started to make the connection and explain... ´´wow it makes so much sense because even in the time of Christ the saints and members of the church were persecuted for not following the traditions of everybody else and were killed´´ he then laughed saying wow I hope I don't get killed for joining your church. He said that his work companions were pulling stuff up on the internet and attacking the Mormon church and he said that he couldn't respond their questions but he didn't doubt in his answer so he just shut up. He said I don't doubt the answer God has given , I don't doubt this church! IT WAS SO COOL!!!!!! I love him, his wife is struggling to recognize her answer but she is going to get baptized too!
All I want is to baptize, I'm not perfect and a lot of times I fail with the rules but I want to be perfect and work hard so that God can bless us with that success. We have a lot of investigators right now, but sadly that other family I was telling you about Oscar and Efania, they have lost interest and don't want to change their traditions. Without a doubt they will get baptized in the future but I don't know if it is their time right now :(. we had to drop them.
I also had another interesting thing happen, we taught a family lesson one that we found and they were very into it, and we explained the restoration the Book of Mormon and everything. At the very end to end we asked them if they had any questions about anything, and the dad looked at me seriously and said, thanks for your message, but I want you to answer me one question, for your church, who is Christ? ..... That was a slap in the face. I think sometimes as missionaries we focus too much on other things and not enough on the fact that Christ came to suffer and die for us and our sins... it made me think a little and re word my lesson one.
Another cool thing that happened this week, is I had to do divisions with some other elders in my district and I went to their area, they were struggling with finding new people to teach and the Lord blessed us with 4 families and 10 new people that we found that day, it was so cool and turns out 2 of the families we found were cousins to recent converts!
I love the missions, it's cool how much one learns, I have learned so much stuff useful and not useful.. For example I can whistle really loud without my hands, and I can do a rubics cube, and I could probably pass some mechanic test thanks to my comp who explains everything, (those are the not so important things) but it's really fun but I'm tired.
well the church is true.
love you all
elder shaw
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