Buenos Dias!!
This
week was a pretty standard week with spiritual lessons, and progressing
investigators, but also with a lot of heart break and unique trials.
This
week we had a very tough beginning. On Monday O invited us over
with the bishop and told us he didn't want to get baptized and that he
didn't want us to say anything. After listening to him and ending with a
prayer (Pulling an other side of heaven teach in the prayer tactic) We
left. Since then he still doesn't want anything, so he didn't get baptized. It was heartbreaking, but maybe it just isn't his time.
This
week we had wacky Wednesday and it was raining hard so we read part of
the story of Noah and the Flood and told everyone that the flood was
going to occur starting next month and that we had to invite everyone we
could to get baptized this month. We had a decent amount of success
with that one. More to come in the future.
This
week we had great Interchanges and I was with Elder V (Elder
Darth V). It was a great interchange because he is still in his
first change in the mission. He is a great missionary and wants to be
obedient and have lots of success. He speaks Spanish really well. The
only problem is he is having trials with his trainer because they have
different visions of the mission and the new missionary has higher
vision of obedience and work. But we are helping them out with that. We
had an insanely spiritual lesson with an inactive member and we were
really guided in the lesson by the spirit. The Lesson was exactly what
he needed and he even told us that. And that the lesson is what he had
been worrying about for a couple days. He made the commitment to come to
church, and on Sunday, he actually came. It was a great moment in the
interchange.
This
week we had miracles happen every day like it says in my ponderize
scripture (Alma 37:40) when we had all of our appointments fall we ended
up running into some ex investigators and having a good lesson and
inviting them to be baptized. I know that because we were diligent and
didn't give up that we were blessed with this small tender mercy miracle.
It
really was such a spiritually powerful week and I am so grateful for
the blessings the lord gave us. But it was also one of the funniest
weeks of my mission. I don't think I have laughed so hard in a long
time.
Fire pits:
One
morning we were studying and I was sitting there reading the scriptures
when my armpits started feeling really hot. As I kept studying and
trying to ignore it they kept getting hotter and hotter. When they felt
like there was a lit match in my armpits I ran to the bathroom and
ripped off my shirt to see what was up. And as I was watching my armpits
were turning red and burning like crazy! I had no idea why so I washed
them off with water and walked out with my arms up to air them out. When
my companion turned around and I was walking around shirtless with my
hands in the air he was really confused. Then when he saw my pits he did
what any good companion would do... he pulled out his camera, took some
pictures, and then made a video. I looked so silly and just didn't know
what to do. But eventually the pain went away. The nurse said it was
probably a chemical reaction between my soap and deodorant... but I don't
know.
Prank Call:
On
the day that O told us he didn't want to be baptized some other
things went wrong so we were kinda bummed. All of a sudden our district
leader called us and asked us a normal question. Instead of answering
his question I started a fake conversation and started freaking out
"Your investigators isn't going to get baptized this week? Why Not? What happened? Oh No, I cant believe that that happened. ETC"
While
I was saying that he was really confused but then they caught on. While
I was talking my comp starting freaking out and started praying right
away that the lady would get baptized!
Afterwords
I told him that it was a prank and he died! I started laughing so hard
and he was kinda upset with me but it ended up being funny.
I am out of time :( But I will relate the other stories next week!
I love you all so much!
Stay Golden,
Love,
Elder Nielson
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