This week has been a testimony builder for us. We both got our flu
shots and got sick from it. Then we got worse from the water at Golds
Gym, so we were both down for a little bit. We also had the blessing of
going out into the streets and finding people to teach! We knocked
doors, talked with people outside, walked around, said prayers, yet we
had about the same result. 0.
Though that big fat zero always gets filled with tender mercies
after the trial of your faith! After many rejections and people trying
to prove to us that Joseph Smith was false, we found the one person who
was willing to listen. But more importantly, feel the spirit.
There is an investigator here whom the missionaries have been
trying to see for over a couple months before I got here. She had met
sister missionaries in Alabama only a couple times before moving here
and they sent her information to us. Her name is Monica. Monica is not
currently a citizen of the united states and fled from Mexico with her
family to come find a better life. While in Alabama, her husband was
taken by the immigration and currently resides there. As we talked with
Monica, she began to express to us her feelings and experiences that she
had had throughout the last year. She turned to many people for help
and support in her time of need, though nobody was willing to give aid.
She said that after her husband was taken, she prayed that something
would happen. The next day, the Sister missionaries in Alabama showed up
and visisted with her just before she moved here. She took that as the
help from her Father in Heaven. Over the last couple months we have been
trying and trying to visit her and call her, though with no success.
however this week we finally got in. And she expressed her gratitude to
us that out of all her "church" friends, we were the only ones who didnt
forget about her and continued to worry about her. She asked us why
that was? and we told her that we were sent by our heavenly father to
teach his restaured gospel. And she took such a great interest into it!
It was super special to see how our efforts of walking around, trying
people, trying them again and trying a third time always pays off! As
well as the example that we show others every day. Im glad I get to show
the light of christ to others as I walk and serve him!
I hope that you all had a great week and that you have another blessed one this upcoming week! I love you all!
Elder Stonely
P.S. we be looking pretty ugly this week! HAHAHA
