Well this past week was pretty amazing. We didn't have pday this last Monday because we went to the temple as a mission. We were assigned to go on Wednesday and so that day was our pday.
But
before that on Monday we had a very interesting lesson. Our investigator
with a baptismal date is under the age of 18 and so for her to be
baptized she needs to first learn and do everything that a normal
investigator needs to do and we need permission from her mother to be
baptized. But the thing is is that her mom thinks that her daughter
needs more time to get to know everything. So we decided to go all for
nothing and we felt like we needed to do the pre interview with her
mother present. So everything was going well until 10 minutes before the
lesson the person who was going to join us decided to take a nap and
didn't want to come with us. So in that moment we needed to find
somebody else or we weren't going to have the lesson. We eventually
called bishop who started to verbally burn us for asking him on a family
home evening night but then he stopped and said that he would join us.
We eventually got in and we had bishop introduce himself to the mother.
He began by talking about our conversation with him to see if he could
accompany us to the lesson. He said that as he was talking to us he said
that he heard a voice that told him that he needed to come with us. As
soon as Bishop said that the room was instantly filled with the spirit.
After the introductions were done we explained what we were going to do
and we started with a prayer. After the prayer my companion started with
the first two questions and then I continued with the next two. As we
progressed with each question you could feel the spirit continually grow
stronger and stronger. In fact it was so strong that my companion began
to studder when I passed it on to him (he later told me that he had
never felt the spirit so strong and that he was having a really hard
time focusing. so hard that he couldn't read the baptismal questions).
What made it amazing was that our investigator was absolutely prepared to
do the interview and her answers were absolutely incredible. Afterwards
we asked her mother what she thought about that. She was super surprised
at how much her daughter had learned and at how much that she had
changed in just one month. We then went in bold and pulled out a
permission and asked if she would sign the permission so that her
daughter could get baptized. AND SHE DID!!!!!! this last Saturday we had
the baptism and everything went absolutely amazing!
Well we had an incredible miracle with our investigator but also this last
week we had a multi zone conference. and the topic of the conference was
how faith and the law of consecration helps us be the missionaries that
the Lord wants us to be. For the past 8 months the mission picked up a
phrase that has changed the mission a ton. And that phrase is that
"Faith is a mental exercise." Every since we picked it up we have begun
to see more and more miracles in the mission. But President shared with
us a scripture that is commonly known to all of us which is found in
Doctrine and Convenants 4:2. And President focused in this part:
"...see that ye serve him with
So
the question that president asked us was how can we serve using all of
our mind? He then went on to do a practice on how we could use our mind
to grow and use our faith to see miracles. I learned a ton in that
practice. I really had to use a strength in my mind to be able to grow
my faith. and now I am seeing more and more miracles. just like with our
investigator.
miss you all tons,
Finally here are some pictures. some of them are baptisms and the other
is what happens after working so much. (i´m just acting in case
anybody was wondering.)
