The other man that we found today I mean wasn't that positive.... we stopped us in the street and was trying to sell a 4 condo house to us with a beautiful view and when I mentioned that we were missionaries he was like.... eh ni modo! You can still by it. So by the time I was trying to teach him a little bit about what we do as missionaries he just went OFF. Ya know the usual. No certain religion will save you. The bible is the only thing that is keeping us from burning in hell. Money is destroying humanity.... All that good stuff. He didn't even stop talking when my campanion activated the fake call on our phone and pretended that we were in a HUGE rush and that someone needs us RIGHT NOW!! But after a good 20 minutes of that and a lot of walking more.... we made it. Ok wow sorry long explanation later....
HAPPY NEW YEARS!!!! I hope you guys all made real good resolutions and and still going strong on them! New years eve was a little slow and New years was basically us teaching a bunch of hung over people about how drinking is bad and how they need God and change their lives.... All the way down to my companion confiscating a liquor bottle from one of our investigators (Id never seen him so sad in my whole life) I mean there was a lot¨s of fun games like.... Hid from the sister missionaries.... Run from the sister missionaries and Pretend like you are sleeping in front of the sister missionaries going on this week but trough it all we still saw MIRACLES!
So there is this Man named Juan in the branch. He got baptized about 2 years ago and he was even president of the Elders Quorum for awhile. But for some reason or another he got very resented against the church and during my time here (6 months) in Flores I've seen him maybe 3 times. And he has never stayed all 3 hours. That was Until the great ward choir came to sing to all of the less actives. Including hermano Juan. Turns our the day previous was his Birthday. So when we entered we found that out and the whole ward council same him Happy Birthday and some good Feliz Navidad songs. He explains later that it was an answer to his prayers. He has now been to church 3 times and has stayed for all 3 hours. This Sunday as it being fast and testimony meeting he passed to give his testimony. He started crying and explained everything that had happened. He said that he was at the point of going back into all of his bad ways but something changed in him. He was shown that he was needed that he was a clave member of the church. God is good and through the little love that he was shown he has now become a full active member of the church once more. He asked for forgiveness from everyone and gave the most beautiful testimony. Later that night when we visited him he was expressing all his desires to go the the temple to be sealed to his wife.
So here ya go. Little acts of love can CHANGE someones life for forever. So go out of your way this week. And visit someone. It doesn't matter if you think they will never accept you in and it doesn't matter if its even just a smile or a plate of cookies. From small and simple things big things come to pass.
I LOVE YOU ALL!!!!
HAVE THE BEST WEEK!!!
Hermana Nelson
Also Shout out to papa Nelson..... for New Years we got ANOTHER frozen cheesecake! THANKS DADDY!
sorry... no pics this week. Ill try to get some next week!!
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| OUR BELOVED CHEESECAKE AND ROOTBEER!!! |
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| OUR BELOVED CHEESECAKE AND ROOTBEER!!! |
