Buenos Dias a todos!
This week was a good week! It had its ups and downs like always, but hey that's what life is about :)
This
week we worked hard and were preparing our investigators K, her
kids, and her little sister to get baptized. Everything went well this
week until she got sick and didn't go to church. If she was really sick I
would have been okay with it, but her sickness was "A stuffy nose"...
But
they are doing good I am pretty sure they will be baptized on the 10th
of April. But the great news is the progress in the zone for the SUPER
BAPTISM!
After Sunday we have 10 people who have plans to get baptized in our super
baptism! (That is a lot of people for a zone to baptize in one month)
and we had 18 people who have gone to church enough times to be able to
be baptized on the 10th and 2 who have baptismal dates for later on. 20
Baptisms in 1 month would be a record! Think of 20 people making
promises with God all together! How great would be our Joy! :)
This
week my companion and I bought a pizza from a new place that was really
cheap to see how it was. When we got to the apartment we opened it up
and almost laughed. It was a pizza, but the crust was so thin that it
was crunchy, so basically it was a HUGE tostada :) We ate it and I liked
it. After eating and planning and calls we went to the bedroom to say
our prayers before going to bed and all of a sudden my stomach growled
super loudly! It was so funny that even though we were praying we
started giggling a little but when all of a sudden my companions stomach
growled just as loud. We started giggling even harder and then my
stomach growled back again! Long story short our stomachs took turns
growling at each other for a good 10 minutes!!! It was so hilarious!
After the prayers we asked each other what we thought our stomachs were
saying to each other ha ha :)
This
week I had interchanges in Quebrada Verde (My old sector where I was
before Coquimbo) It was super cool to see members, and some converts.
The sad part was when we went to my converts house they weren't reading
the Book of Mormon or going to church. I wanted to cry. We shared a
really powerful lesson with them and they promised that they were going
to go to church and read... but this last Sunday they didn't go to
church... It really is such a sad experience to learn that your converts
stopped progressing in the path that they started.
This
week we had zone conferences and as part of the zone conference my
companion and I had to give a capacitation. We talked about some new
scriptures that had been found in Valparaíso and decided to read to see
what they said about the history of the missionaries in that area. We
opened it up to the Book of Excuses Chapter 2 Verses 1-11. (We made a
list of the top 11 excuses that we heard about why the investigators weren't progressing or ready to be baptized) It was awesome. We then
taught about how if we follow the advice of Preach My Gospel all of the
Excuses will disappear and we will have success and baptisms. I thought
it was pretty clever :)
That
was basically this week. I hope that all of you can prepare for general
conference with questions and guidance that you need in your life to
see if the prophet is a prophet of God or just a good man. I testify as a
representative of Jesus Christ that if you take questions doubts or
guidance problems to the conference looking for the answer that you will
be answered and you wont be able to deny that God has called a Prophet
to be on the earth today to guide us and help us achieve eternal life.
I love you all! Stay Golden!
Love,
Elder Nielson :) | |
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