This week was incredibly better
than the last. We quadrupled our lessons and found double the investigators. We
are excited and are working our butt´s off! Elder Ganowsky at the end of one
day was like ¨Wow we have walked and worked a lot.¨ I agreed with him and I was
proud. I was proud that we had worked so hard. We had seen so many great
miracles.
I have 3 stories to tell that
increased my faith and my enjoyment of the mission.
First, the funny one. We visited
with the old Pablo, the one that almost was baptized but 2 days before his
baptism backed out and dropped us. We were talking with him and he told us that
the city had cut out his light. He had also told us that through all the trials
that had come to him he said he wanted to kind of distance himself with God so
Elder Ganowsky and his witty self opened up his Book of Mormon to 3 Nephi 11:
10-11, where it says that Jesus Christ is the light of the world. Pablo didn´t
get the pun but I was biting my tongue. It was an incredible lesson in the end
thanks to Elder Ganowsky.
The next thing is a great
miracle. We had an investigator tell us that it would be ok if we would go and
pass by to pick her up to go to church yesterday. So like we were told we
passed by before church to go together. We pass by and no one answers the
doorbell below. Then their friend that lives in a room in the same piso came by
and opened the door from the street for us, then banged the door and dinged the
door bell until someone came. The man that came told us that the person we came
to pick up was going to another church today. I then invited him to come to our
church. He kind of rolled his eyes with something like ¨Ok. Ok. I´m coming.¨ He
changed and got ready in 5 minutes and we went to church. Turns out he knew
some of the members and they were very good friends of his.
The miracle this week was Sunday
night. We were walking and found a less
active who I had tried a great amount to have contact with. We talked with her
and she really still did not want to come back. Later that night we saw her
three times more, every time we were rejected. After we asked her for her help
to go and find investigators. In the past Maria Del Carmen would knock
buildings alone to find investigators for the missionaries, She was relief
society president, warm missionary and dedicated member. I had always wanted to
help her return but she had been pretty stubborn. She then told us she
would teach us how to knock doors. We entered in every building she touched and
even though we only got one visit out of all of it she said that she wanted to
come with us to that visit. I was a very happy missionary after. I felt that we
had used different ways to find and bring back people to Christ.
Thank you all of your prayers and
your consideration of me! I love all of you and I hope that all have God´s
support through out this week!
Élder Smiley
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