Buenas Dias!
This week has
been a hard hot stressful week, but I am learning and progressing more
than ever :) Last week I expressed some concern about Elder C
being a little trunky and having to deal with that but that worry is
gone now. Why you may ask? Because this week was not a normal week.
Monday
night we had finished enjoying our P-day and working a little bit and
were getting ready to sleep when we received a call. We looked at the
screen and it said "Presidente." Immediately we got a little bit
worried, And I got even more worried when Elder C left the room to
go talk to him privately. When he came back I got the sad news. We had
emergency changes because a missionary in another sector needed help. So
The next morning elder cropper was going to leave to a different sector
and I was going to stay. Then I got even more news, I was going to stay
and be the senior companion. Elder C packed up and then we slept,
well tried to anyways.
Tuesday we had changes
and I got my new companion. Elder H is a Chilean who has a
month more than me in the mission. He is from Punta Arenas which is the
southernmost city in Chile. I was sad to have Elder C go but I was
excited to have a new companion and the opportunity to be senior
companion.
Because of this emergency change I
went from doing about 30 percent of the work to doing 95 percent of the
work which was really stressful! Making every decision, planning every
lesson, doing every door approach was super scary! And talking in
Spanish 24/7 with a Chilean companion was even more stressful! But I
have relied on the lord and am a lot more calm. I feel like I am getting
the hang of being a missionary.
Work wise
things are good and tough. Investigators is something we lack a little
bit, but we are working hard to find new ones and to encounter baptisms.
But we are doing well with the less actives and less actives who have
their endowment. Our mission is making a big push to reactivate the less
active members who have gone to the temple and made the covenants
there. This week we had 3 of the 10 we were given come to church and we
had an awesome lesson with one of them.
R
is a returned missionary who is inactive. He returned home early from
his mission after 6 months of service for minor health reasons, but used
the health reasons as a small excuse to come home. Afterwords he said
he had some doubts and we told him we would pass by and answer them. The
lesson was amazing. He told us his doubts which didn't have much to do
with the church, but more to do with the bible and a claim that god
messed up. We started to answer his question when the spirit took over
the lesson. I don't know the bible very well, but all of a sudden the
few things I did know came to me and were the perfect answer to his
question. Then I felt like I should talk about the temple and I did. The
spirit truly guided the lesson and hit him hard. After talking about
the temple he just stopped and sat for a minute and then said. Thank
you, I haven't felt like this in a long time. I have been wanting to feel
the spirit and I feel it now. Thank you. When we left he gave us big
long hugs and I knew that he had be changed. He came to church on Sunday
and I felt so happy for him :)
That's what I
learned this week. It doesn't matter what we want to say or what we
know, its what the spirit says and what it does to the person listening.
We need to work hard every day to follow the spirit and to recognize its
influence in our lives.
Stay golden and be awesome!!
Love you all!
Elder Nielson
P.s
I have a true testimony of the resurrection because every night I get
back to the apartment dead and somehow the next morning I wake up ;)
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