This week has been a good one. I forgot to bring my journal with me so some of this information will be incomplete. On Monday after the Pday had ended we went to teach Miguel. He and his wife were there, so we decided to watch the Restoration hoping that he would strengthen his testimony and his wife would get some amount of interest to actually listen for herself and not just to support her husband. I don´t know if she changed, but I know that he felt the spirit. I´m not sure how to get him to express himself yet though, but it will come with time.
Tuesday we finally started teaching Mirna, the reference of the Hna Aguilera. I felt so happy that we are teaching her with them in their house. Unfortunately we didn´t get to finish the entire lesson. We were about to teach the Apostasy when her kid came over and said that the baby woke up. Dang Satan. She likes learning, but I´m not sure she is listening for more than just pure curiousity. That´s going to change though. Even more unfortunate was that after she had left the Hna Aguilera began to tell us her life story and cried for nearly an hour straight. I´m calling her Ms.Waterworks from now on because I seriously have no Idea where all that water came from. It was like she had sat on a hose and she was a sprikler. Fortunately we had the excuse that it was almost nine o´clock and we had to go home or she would have just kept on crying. I´m not even sure why she was crying.
Wednesday we had the fortune of finishing the restoration and we even watched the restoration movie, so the Hna Aguilera wouldn´t change the subject so much. She really liked it, but she had the question. What happens to all the good Christians that follow God and don´t baptize in your Church? Luckily that´s the Lesson 2 the Plan of Salvation so we made a cita for Thursday.
Thursday we taught lesson 2 to Mirna and I finally got to use my puzzle from Missionary mall for the first time in a long time. She said that she really liked the way that I presented it too. I asked her what she knew about the plan of God and she said that we live on the earth, we die, we get judged, and we go to heaven. I filled in those puzzle pieces and we talked about because of the apostasy most people don´t know the complete plan of God, but because of Revelation given to Prophets we know the Entire Plan of Salvation. She really liked that. Then we filled in the rest of the Puzzle and she said, "I have always believed this even though I never have really learned about it. I know God is a just God and now I see that your God is just".
Unfortunately, again, The Hna Aguilera had to talk too much and would distract the lesson from it´s current course. She talked about Temples, Baptisms for the dead, Marriages in the Temple, Outer Darkness, The fall of Adam and Eve (The Deeper Doctrine) and all the deep doctrine that she didn´t need to know yet. Mirna said that lesson 1 was something she had never heard of before and that we were practically overloading her hard drive, but then with lesson 2 The Hna Aguilera was trying to shove all the information that she knows down Mirna´s Throat. I could see her trying to process it all and I tried to cut off Hna Aguilera several times and return the basics, but She would continue on the course she was on. One of these days we´ll have to teach Hno and Hna Aguilera how to teach an investigator in the correct way. Hno Aguilera isn´t that bad though (He is the Patriarch).
Later on we also watched the Prophet Joseph Smith at the church with a bunch of Jovenes and Miguel. I don´t know what else to do because he needs new glasses, so he can´t read the Book of Mormon. He really liked it and he came by himself.
We finally had a "Consejo De Barrio" on friday, even though only half of the people showed up, but we did get to eat sausages afterwards, so that was cool. On Saturday we were walking to a lesson and we saw Miguel walking with one of his friends. He said that he was going to the "Cancha" to play Volley. We thought nothing of it till later when we were in somebody´s house and we saw him walking back towards his house. Sunday we asked him what happened and he said that they were all drinking and he wanted to escape from temptation. That was sooo cool, because the reason he started talking to us is because he wanted to change and now we can see that it´s sincere. He hasn´t drinken since we started teaching, but smoking is going to be a little harder for him.
Saturday we also taught a random Noche de Hogar with the Flia Cristaldo. We were invited that evening and we prepared something for that night. Turns out that they had a surprise investigator for us. It was kinda crazy because Charlito is "Cabezudo", but I think that she felt the spirit. She is the Girlfriend of a Non-member brother and they think if we get her first then he will eventually turn to the Gospel as well. Crazy conversion stories abounded in the lesson.
Sunday Miguel came to church by himself and on time. I don´t think he is quite prepared for his baptismal date, but he is definitely progressing. I think he and Mirna are our "Golden Investigators" for now. There were many people that didn´t come to church because of the cold, but there was still 80 or something. Felipe, a really funny recent convert, says he wants us to move in behind his house. I want to if we can break our contract with the current house. It is so much nicer than ours.
What a good week, And Yours?
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Elder Zachary James Singson
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