2010-10-22 Still Sharing the Plan.

Tuesday: Today was a decent day. We had our district meeting and we have a new companionship in our district. They split an area because it was so huge! We had that and then we had divisions. I was with Elder Truelove. We went to lunch and then hit the streets. We found this guy and it was weird. He invited us in and he and his brother were smiling. The spirit did not tell me we were in danger so we went in. We got to talking and people have weird ideas here. His point of view was that he is Christian but he was trying to deny that Jesus is the Christ and basically trying to disprove everything. He started to throw random scriptures out. He threw out Matthew 16 which basically testifies purely of Christ and he was trying to deny it and then he threw out a random scripture in revelations trying to use it but I later read it and all it talked about was the beasts and the sea of glass so his story was not making sense. We decided to leave but he wanted to keep talking so we bore our testimony and left.  

Wednesday: Today we talked to a lady and at first she was apprehensive. Her name is Norma and she did not want to let us in at first but we kept talking and later she said her niece died and we then talked about the plan of salvation and eternal families.  All of a sudden, she calls her grandchildren to get the key for the gate. We were shocked and we stepped in and talked more with her. We taught lesson 1 right there with her and it was so great!  She even prayed at the end when we asked her.  We gave her the Book of Mormon and I hope that she is reading it and waiting for us to come back.  It’s pretty good!

Thursday:  Today we went to paint the house of the Zone Leaders and Barrio 5. It was good and fun. The only thing that bothered me was that we committed to go and help the family at their house since it burned down but we decided to go paint. I felt like I let the family down because they called the day before asking for help and I said yes. Later my comp said we have service with the other elders and we should have gone to help the family.

Friday:  It was a normal day in the mission.

Saturday: Today we taught Ruben lesson 2 and it was really good.  I really hope that he can see and feel the spirit and gain a testimony of the resurrection.  That someday he can live with his family and his wife again.

Sunday:  In priesthood class they were talking about giving service to someone.  I hope we all can work together to be able to serve and minister to those who are in need.