Well I hope everyone up there had a good week this past week, it was another great one down here in Panama
I think Chase’s run ins with dogs lately started rubbing off on me, but don’t worry ha no blood. We went to one of our Investigators house’s on Tuesday and as she was walking out the door her dog bolted out running right towards me. There was a little wall that I figured tied just stop right there and start barking like the dogs usually do but this one jumped the wall and went right for my left ankle. At first it didn’t really hit me what was happening but then I felt its teeth around my ankle and that got me goin a little bit. I was about to kick it but I didn’t want to because our investigator was standing right there and I didn’t feel like that would have turned out to well. She felt so bad though she was there screaming at the dog to get back in the house. But anyways I felt the dog’s teeth start to put pressure on my ankle but then all of the sudden the pressure left, the dog still had it’s mouth around my ankle but it was like it couldn’t bite. I know that the Lord helped me out on that one, and it was because of all of your prayers so thank you!!
After the whole dog incident we started teaching the lady and it was so sweet! Last time we taught her about the Restoration and Joseph Smith and asked her to pray about it to know if it was true. She told us that as she was praying she had this overwhelming feeling of peace come over her and she knew in that moment that it was true. It was so awesome!! We invited her to be baptized but her family is a super strong catholic family and she’s afraid of what they’ll do if she gets baptized. So we’re going to keep working with her on that and see if we can help her overcome her fears.
This week we also found a lady who has been inactive for the past couple of years. While we were talking and getting to know her a little more she told us that the reason she went inactive is because she had some questions about certain doctrines which were actually quite easy questions but before she asked the missionaries and they never answered the questions for her. Because the missionaries didn’t take the time to answer her questions she went inactive for about 4 years and missed out on the blessings that she could have had. After we answered her questions she told us that she wanted us to come back and start teaching her husband about the gospel and that she was going to start coming back to church. It was and interesting experience and helped motivate me to become a better missionary and expand my knowledge of the gospel more so that if this happens again ill know how to answer the questions and keep people active in the church!
Thank you all for the prayers, love and support! I hope you all had a great Easter Sunday!
Love, Elder Westwood
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