Happy birthday Mom and Daniel!
Feb. 2. 2015
Happy birthday Mom and Daniel!
Feb. 2. 2015
Well I haven't read your letters yet but I'm sure you will tell me about what you did on both the birthdays so first I want to tell you what I did on your birthdays.
Wednesday, 28 of January
In the morning we visited the family Feirrera, pretty
new investigators, that came from a member reference. We taught the mom,
Marisa, and her 17 year old son, Lautaro. We had talked about most of the
restoration the last time so we focused on explaining well the Book of Mormon. It
was a really good lesson and they are going to read, meditate and pray! Then
after we waited a long time for coletivo (bus) to go to lunch. Oh, I forgot to
mention it was raining pretty good. We ate lunch with the familia Siles, a nice
family, and then went on our way. Then we visited an hermano that hadn't come
for a few weeks and found out he hurt his foot so we shared a scripture with
him. Then the family Paredes. We watched a movie with them and it went pretty
good. Then we went to an inactive family where one lady is super active and the
rest of the family inactive. It was our first time going, the familia Chalco. It
was a pretty good visit and at the end the sister came in and told the family
that someone they knew recently had a stroke so we did a kneeling prayer for
him. (the hermana later told us that in that moment he woke up from his coma
and is doing a lot better, miracle!) So it was a pretty normal day I guess, I don't
really remember that much anymore the days just all blend together!
Saturday, 31 of January
Well cooly enough we visited the family Feirrera
again in the morning. Marisa told us that she had talked with her daughter (who
she fights with a lot because of the son in law) and where she had expected to
kind of get in a fight there was the opposite reaction, and she said it
impacted her. She is feeling the Spirit that what we teach is true, we talked
about recognizing the Spirit on Wednesday and now she is recognizing it and
reading and praying! Lautaro didn't read so we read Moroni Alma
Some other cool things that happened this week is we
finally taught the familia Ramos for the first time. They have been going to
church for 4 weeks but we could never set up an appointment to teach them. We
finally did and they are as prepared as they seemed in the capilla (chapel or
church). We talked about the Book of Mormon and the hermano told us one of the
reasons he wants to change his life all the sudden is because he saw his
nephews who are returned missionaries and what good people they are. He even
said "my nephew is more mature than me a lot of times!" haha. He said
he went to church as a kid kind of just following his brothers and sisters but
now as he is going he feels something a lot different, like what they say is
just for him. The church is true! and another good bit of news on Sunday Kenny
got the Aaronic Priesthood! The Ward is really excited to work and a few weeks
before I got here they had an assitance (attendance) of about 35 I think. This Sunday 115 people were in Sacrament Meeting!
It just goes to show that working with the members, and the members working by themselves
without the missionaries having to remind them really pulls out the best
result. Be you own agents and look for ways to help, there are so many! I love
you all so much and hope you have a great week!
Elder Andrew
