Ola familia,
This week I will label as the week of miracles. haha... mainly because we found some people who are really prepared for the gospel in their lives. Yesterday was hard though because none of the people we taught who were super prepared came to church... so i think.. WHAT are we doing wrong??? After church sister Zimbelman and i talked about it. We thought that we are working as hard as we can so we cant get discouraged with ourselves or be too disappointed in ourselves. As we talked about it though we had some good thoughts about how we can do better.
One of those thoughts were talking about the importance of church in our lessons. this week we did a lot of talking about the importance of partaking the sacrament and keeping the sabbath day holy. i thought we did a good job of getting across that our investigators needed to go to church. Then sunday comes and we see only a few of our investigators. I love the ones who did come, but the ones that did not come... it really hurt not to see them there. So as we talked about how we can do better we thought about the reasons that these people are missing church. The ones that are prepared said the reason they didnt come was because they accidentally slept in.. or something crazy came up. I see now that Satan is working so hard not to let these people come to church. He is having crazy things come up or making them sleep in. So sister zimbelman and i thought about discussing this with our investigators. Letting them know that now they have made this great decision to be baptized it wont always be easy... something will always come up. But they have to make the decision now to go to church and push through adversity. We had one lesson last night where we had to tell our investigator he couldnºt get baptized this week because he didnºt go to church. he seemed really upset about it. I realized that we need to let them know the importance of church and help them realize the effort it will take to go and also give them the confidence to be able to do it.
Yesterday was a little depressing because they didnt come to church. But i will try to focus on the miracles that really did happen this week. For example, we have been praying for someone who will be ready for baptism. We had one person in mind but he doesnºt have a phone and last week we didnºt even know where he lived. We just kept praying to find him. And the end of last week... we found him. It is amazing how the spirit works. Because we had a lesson with his younger brother that night, the brother is Romario and the one who we were praying for is ARitson. Anyway the lesson before Romarios fell through. We were going to just go to our plano alternativo but we decided to go early to our lesson with romario. And what do you know... it wasnºt him who was there... it was Aritson! The guy who is ready for this message. We were so excited to see him. And he was about to walk out the door. With minutes to spare... the Lord led us to the one who was ready. I just love this. We were able to have a quick 20 minute, but powerful lesson with him. And we recommitted him to baptism. :) I was beyond happy this day. And in all honesty when i think back to moments like this nothing really can get us down. We just have to remember all the good times during times that may be more difficult than others.
Another miracle i just love is last week... remember how we emailed super later than usuall? well it turns out is for a reason. We were pretty upset the place we email at closed on us.. so we were all complaining about it how we had to email super late... haha well we ate our words. because right after we get done emailing we see a member with his friend. We contact the friend and set up a date to meet with him... his name is Stephen... stephen has investigated the church before... Well at the time i thought nothing of it until we had a lesson with stephen. It was so powerful!!!! he committed to pray about the book of mormon and we set a date for baptism! He just had big eyes the whole time during the lesson and we could just see the spirit working on him. And it is even better that he is a reference from a member because he automatically has a great friend in the church. So we meet with him again today and i am super excited. So even when something you THINK isnºt supposed to happen.. happens... it really is supposed to happen with the Lord. he puts us where we need to be or puts people where we are. I have really seen that this week.
Love you all so much.
Sister JOhnson
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