Well, another week here in the mission. We had set the goal to have
3 baptisms, but each one fell. However, we have a baptism this Saturday
for A from San Francisco. His wife was going to be baptized as
well, but told us last week that she doesn´t want to stop going to her
evangelical church because she "met (came to know) Jesus" there...but
after she told us that she is still going to go with her husband and
learn more from us. I think she will follow her husband´s example when
she recognizes the blessings and understands the doctrine of eternal
marriage. Gotta have patience.
We had some ups
and we had some downs with some investigators, but overall things are
progressing. K is starting to open back up again. Her faith
is building and she actually came to church yesterday! We also had
R (11) and N come. R´s mom and sister didn´t come to
church, but she is super animada and can help set the example for the
family.
We had a lesson with J (N´s mom) this past Wednesday
with one of the counselors of the Branch Presidency. We taught about
the principle of Faith. Despite being such a short word (just "fe" in
Spanish) it literally brings about miracles in our lives. Despite a good
lesson, she still needs time to think about baptism. Thank you for
being willing to donate for the operation, but we have been told not to
give money (even for weddings) in order for the people to build their
faith and remain active in the church after baptism.
I
just found out from an email that investigators in Ocotillo - A y
J and their son J - are making pizza with members so they can
get married and baptized. Sweet!!!! The importance of planting seeds.
Well,
yesterday we watched some videos from the Presidencia de Área about the
Plan de Área 2015. It gave me a lot of ánimo to work harder in this
part of the Lord´s vineyard. If you haven´t sent the birthday package, can you download these videos as well? Here´s the link:
After
church, we went to San Francisco and had a neat experience. SF is kind
of far and costs us 60 Lempiras in mototaxi (in total for both of us).
When we got there, all of our citas had fallen within 5 minutes. I was a
little bummed. I was thinking about taking a break for 15-20 minutes to
think about some things (problems with chismes and chambres that some
investigators had received from members of the ward earlier that day)
but then remembered the experience in Ocotillo when the exact same thing
happened. I had sat down and then remembered from Elder Holland´s BYU
talk about Thomas Edison and said how after a devestating fire, Edison
said "we´re rebuilding". We later found a referal and she and her two
kids (R) went on to get baptized. Entonces, in San Francisco, I
remembered that when I was discouraged and decided to "rebuild" and
start contacting. To make a long story short, we found 2 great families.
One family, the son was in San Pedro for 1-2 months during vacation and
went to church with her older sister is a recent convert. We didn´t
meet the family (only the son was there) but there are 4 in total that
can be baptized. With a little more ánimo, we went contacting and I felt
prompted to contact a house. The man said "come in come in"...joking
around, I asked him if we knew each other and he said no, but we can
right now. We went on to teach the Restoration and his wife came back at
the end of "the great apostasy"...we finished the lesson and asked us
about baptism. The "wife" (unión libre) told us "I want to get baptized,
but I know I need to get married. A lot of churches say ´get baptized
first and then married´ but I know from the bible that no fornicator can
enter into the kingdom of God"...We challenged them to baptism and they
accepted. They also know A so we invited them to his baptism. A
lot of work to go, but my testimony has increased dramatically. When
everything seems to have fallen, just say "we´re rebuilding" and then
get to work.
Well, still don´t know if I have changes yet. We´ll find out tonight. If not, let´s have a good 4th change here in Río Lindo and if so, well, on to the next one.
CHEQUE!!!
-Elder Lund
Río Lindo, Zona Yojoa 2/9/14 - 2/16/15
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