Wow this week was a little crazy. We are visiting a lot of people who are super interested in the gospel and are progressing really well. They all have a lot of desire to learn more and they are all really prepared. But the only tough thing that happened this week was that nobody went to church!!! Ahhhh thats super frustrating , we were expecting over 10 investigators to go tochurch yesterday and onlyt one showed up. We know evryone will come next week though.
We had some really good lessons wheree the spirit was really strong this week. I will tell you all about one. So we have an investigator named Guti who we are teaching. He is a 17 year old kid who lives with his aunt who is a member of the church. So we have been teaching him for a while now and he has gone to church and he likes everything. But on friday we had a lesson with him that was really just awesome. We got there and right off the bat he just started asking us a ton of questions. We answered all of them as best we could and they were all mainly centered on the plan of salvation and the exitence of God. We sat there explaining everything about what he was asking for about an hour and then he told us as we were about to leave that he has only prayed two times in his whole life and he has a tough time believing that god really hears his prayers. We just told him that we really do have a LOVING heavenly father and that we are all his children. We asked him to offer the closing prayer and after a few minutes of resisting he agreed to do it. His prayer was so real and we could feel that he was really trying to make a connection with god through his prayer. As he was closing the prayer we heard him start to cry. Afterwards he told us that that was the very first time that he had really FELT the love of god in his life and he comitted to pray more often to strengthen his communication with god. That was really the turning point for him and now he is doing awesome and we are seeing the change in him every time we visit him.
Experiences like these are why i love the mission so much. Helping other people learn more about God is such a cool thing and the miracles that i have seen have strengthened my testimony so much . Love this gospel and know that heavenly father loves each and every one of us no matter what we have done in the past.
Love you all. Until next week!!
Sorry i cantr send pictures this week because this computer is a little retarded..
Elder Wilks