12 Octubre 2015
I'm at the point in the mission where I hate it
when members ask me how long I've been in the mission because I tell them 16
months and then they say "Ya mero." Which basically means
"you're further out than in." I still feel like a new missionary, it
feels ugly to think about how little I have left and to think about how the new
missionaries are probably looking at me the way I looked at the old
missionaries a year ago. Dang it's weird.
Ester and her daughter Jocelin surprised
us this week. They'd said they were only going to go to one session on
Saturday. But then when we went to teach them and SURPRISE! "We went on
Sunday and sneaked in the back and we loved it as well!" That means that
with this last week that just passed, Ester already has the required 5
attendances to be able to be baptized and Joselin has 3 out of the five. So at
this point, it just is a question of them telling us a date. And teaching
enough for them to pass the baptismal interview...we just barely finished
teaching about Joseph Smith this week.
This week it rained SUPER hard. For us
it was fine, we just got soaking wet and the street outside our house turned
into a lake for the next 2 days. But when we went out to work the next morning,
we went to an appointment and the lady's house had flooded. The whole colonia
looked like something out of post-hurricane footage. Walls were knocked over,
people's houses were full of mud and everything. There were people who had
taken all their belongings and set them in the street to dry, there were people
that had lost a lot in the flood, there were cars that were moved and fields
and vacant lots were just destroyed and full of trash. But then you go two
streets higher up and no damage is done. It was really weird to be there and see
the destruction, and it was a good object lesson about building on higher
ground and preparing for the storms that are coming.
Reyna Betancourt came to church again!
We couldn't see her this week because she wasn't feeling good, but she came!
Diamantina: she's a really awesome lady
and eternal investigator who is just waiting for a paper to get signed so she
can get divorced to be able to marry her present husband to be able to be
baptized. And she came to church! It was awesome to see her there. She lives in
a cinderblock hut and makes tamales for a living.
Ironically, we also started teaching a
family affairs lawyer this week whose name is Adriana Rocha. Her son died a few
years ago in a car accident and she really wants to know what church is the true
church. We taught her about how baptism is a covenant that we make with God and
that caught her interest and then we talked about the blessings that we're
promised if we make and keep the covenants that God gives us. She got pretty
excited and accepted the baptismal invitation really well, but she's been busy
with her work, so we haven't seen a whole lot of her. Hopefully I have more to
report this next week.
A man caught us on the street this
yesterday and told us that he sent his kids to the mormon church and they all
got baptized and that he hasn't been baptized yet because he hasn't been able
to stop smoking and that he just moved into our area. And said that he'd like
us to visit him. I LOVE it when things like that happen.
Una escritura que me gustó esta semana:
Alma 38:5:
Y ahora bien, hijo mío, Shiblón,
quisiera que recordaras que en proporción a tu confianza en Dios, serás librado
de tus tribulaciones, y tus dificultades, y tus aflicciones, y serás enaltecido
en el postrer día.
Me gusta que sea tan claro: netamente,
al grado que confiemos en Dios, seremos librados de las aflicciones que
traigamos. Si confías en dios un poco, serás librado un poco. Si confías mucho,
serás librado mucho. Si confías totalmente, serás librado totalmente, siempre haciéndose
la voluntad del Señor a su tiempo y a su manera. Así que si deseamos librarnos
de nuestras aflicciones, confiemos en el Señor con todo lo que somos.
Hope you all have a nice week!
Elder Taylor
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