This week was a pretty good week down here this week. Ha things are finally starting to get back to normal after the holidays so that´s been pretty nice ha-ha.
We´ve been having a hard time lately finding people that we can teach, it seemed like almost everybody we would teach and then set a return appointment would fall through so we´ve been looking for other ways to find people to teach. So I got the idea to search our area book to see if we could find anybody in there that looked like we could teach. I came across a couple of teaching records of old investigators and we decided to go visit them. One of the records we found was a couple who had been taught everything and wanted to get baptized but they couldn’t because they weren’t married and they couldn´t get married because the lady was under age at the time, but that was about a year ago. So we went and found them and discovered that she is old enough now and still has a desire to be baptized so hopefully we´ll be able to progress with them. I love when the area book is filled out! It is so useful when things are done correctly!
We had something sad happen this week too. We were teaching one of our investigators and trying to explain to her about how everything has to be done with the proper authority because she had been baptized into another church and was afraid of being baptized again because it says in the bible that you should only be baptized once. Well, we were trying to explain to her about authority and I could tell that things just weren´t quite clicking with her... at the end of the lesson she just told us that she was happy in the church that she was in right now and doesn´t want to change. When she told us that both Elder Wade and I just felt terrible, we were both super sad because she had been so positive before and then this happened...I think we´re gonna go back again soon and see if we can teach her more, but we´ll see how it goes.
But yesterday we had an awesome experience; we had received a referral from some of the recent converts in the ward about a man that lived by them who was interested in learning more about the church! So we went up there and had dinner with him and afterwards talked about the church. This guy is actually a super religious guy and is super active in the Evangelical church. But he got invited to come to church with our recent converts and it sparked an interest in him. He had a ton of questions about the church and the book of Mormon and everything, it was so sweet! And he´s super interested so we´re praying that he´ll progress as well. I love getting referrals from the members!
Well I think that´s about all from me for this week. Thank you for all your prayers! I love you all
Elder Westwood
We´ve been having a hard time lately finding people that we can teach, it seemed like almost everybody we would teach and then set a return appointment would fall through so we´ve been looking for other ways to find people to teach. So I got the idea to search our area book to see if we could find anybody in there that looked like we could teach. I came across a couple of teaching records of old investigators and we decided to go visit them. One of the records we found was a couple who had been taught everything and wanted to get baptized but they couldn’t because they weren’t married and they couldn´t get married because the lady was under age at the time, but that was about a year ago. So we went and found them and discovered that she is old enough now and still has a desire to be baptized so hopefully we´ll be able to progress with them. I love when the area book is filled out! It is so useful when things are done correctly!
We had something sad happen this week too. We were teaching one of our investigators and trying to explain to her about how everything has to be done with the proper authority because she had been baptized into another church and was afraid of being baptized again because it says in the bible that you should only be baptized once. Well, we were trying to explain to her about authority and I could tell that things just weren´t quite clicking with her... at the end of the lesson she just told us that she was happy in the church that she was in right now and doesn´t want to change. When she told us that both Elder Wade and I just felt terrible, we were both super sad because she had been so positive before and then this happened...I think we´re gonna go back again soon and see if we can teach her more, but we´ll see how it goes.
But yesterday we had an awesome experience; we had received a referral from some of the recent converts in the ward about a man that lived by them who was interested in learning more about the church! So we went up there and had dinner with him and afterwards talked about the church. This guy is actually a super religious guy and is super active in the Evangelical church. But he got invited to come to church with our recent converts and it sparked an interest in him. He had a ton of questions about the church and the book of Mormon and everything, it was so sweet! And he´s super interested so we´re praying that he´ll progress as well. I love getting referrals from the members!
Well I think that´s about all from me for this week. Thank you for all your prayers! I love you all
Elder Westwood
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