So I made a video of our walk to our pencion´s house, but the file is too big. Guess you´ll have to wait and see it in a year and a half. haha, esta bien.
Well the work here is pretty much the same.....It´s hard to find people who will keep their commitments, and the rain keeps people from coming to church. Like, what even are you afraid of, you guys live in an oven, the rain won´t make you sick. Only it does, because they think it will. The power of the mind, is so much greater than the body. If you don´t want to get sick, or you decided you don´t have time for such things, you don´t. That´s been my experience at least. With enough faith, prayer and will power, there´s nothing you can´t do. Without faith, without prayer, without the will your subject to any weakness. Given, there are gente aqui, que are really sick or incapable, but they are SO few in number. It really irks me that wet droplets from the sky keep members and investigadores from coming to church and renewing or participating in those saving convenios.
On a positive note, we have been finding people who have that desire now. I think before we were just teaching to teach. It was frustrating because these people really were not prepared to accept His gospel yet, they do not want to change yet. But lately, we have been teaching and finding people who have the light of Christ, who have the hunger to change, to mejorar sus vidas! No solomente, a escuchar a nosotros. but to really learn and have a different life for themeslves and their familias. One beautiful woman, accepted to be baptized the first lesson, last night she told us she needs to be baptized, she wants to, and she understands everything! Its just that, ella needs to attend two sacarament meetings to qualify, and she missed this morning because she was coming home from a viaje....well, she wants to be baptized the 22.....but she cant, and she leaves for Trujillo Peru the 23, for 6 months for work.....I dont want to lose track of her, she wants this, she needs this but Trujillo is un otra mision entirely! We going to find a way, just we dont know what to do right now....tiempo a orar.
Another family, we were teaching her daughter and nothing came of it....but we stopped by to say hello, and she invited us in. We taught her and she wants to be baptized as well as her sister!!! She told us...well, she recounted an awful history of her house, of the people that lived there and she told us this story, and said the day we stopped by, the day we came to teach her daughter, Paola, this seriously inquitious man left and those bad things that had happened stopped.
This was honestly such a testimony of the plan God has for us. We didnt know that day that our seemingly fruitless lesson con paola, would be a sign to her mother and her home of our message, of our love and blessing in that home. As people, even as missionaries, we cant even comprehend all of the little circumstances that create experiences create blessings in the lives of others. It´s amazing how the Lord works miracles in this world. I don´t know how i am giong to effect someone today, i just hope that it will benefit them sometime in their lives, if not them, then their children, or their childrens children.
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