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| Elder Sorensen, Flores, & Burt |
This week was AWESOME!! We worked super hard and effectively and saw TONS of success and progress. We have a TON of investigators progressing, and we are finding lots of new people.
Monday night we
had an awesome lesson with a different Venezuelan family. Their names are
Pedro and Pricila, and they have 3 kids, and she is pregnant. They are super,
super poor and are working selling little candies in the streets. We brought
them a cake and sodas because it was Pricila’s birthday :) We had a great
lesson with them, and they are super interested to learn more about God and how
to follow Him more, because they have gone through soo much and they know how much
He has been helping them.
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| Christmas Lunch with the Venezuelans |
Tuesday (Christmas
Eve) we didn’t do too much. We had lunch with an investigator and family and
then dinner with a big member family. Christmas Day (miercoles) we prepared a
lunch for all the Venezuelan investigators we are teaching. They are super poor,
so we decided to make a traditional Christmas plate from Venezuela for
them (with help from a Venezuelan of course, hahaha). It was awesome!!! Then we
talked with the fam. :) Christmas was great.
Jueves (Thursday) we
went back to work and had an incredible day. We had several awesome citas/lessons
with progressing investigators, and then we found 2 new entire families!!! Both
were references that have talked with missionaries before, and we are excited
to help them come closer to Christ. We also had an awesome lesson with the Venezuelans.
We taught about the pattern of prophets and apostasies from the Bible and then
how the same thing happened and God once again has called a prophet today! The
Spirit was super, super strong, and it definitely touched their hearts. The
most interesting one is a lady named Nairubys. Her whole family are Jehovah’s
Witnesses, but she feels like there is more truth to be found. At first she didn’t seem
to believe us and was trying to argue, but we wouldn’t argue with her and by
the middle of the lesson, the Spirit was talking and she knew it. IT WAS
AWESOME!! We left them all with Books of Mormons and a few Bibles (they have
nothing), and they are super hyped to read it and find the truth themselves!!
WOOOO!!!!
Viernes (Friday) we
had another super, super awesome day!! We had an awesome cita with a friend of
a member named Lousia Fernanda. We taught her last week, and she is super
interested and works for a member lady (which really, really helps). We taught
about the Restoration and a living prophet and the Book of Mormon, and then she
said she wants to get baptized.... and help her children and all her friends do
the same!!! She is awesome!! She is reading and praying and preparing to be
baptized in mid-January!!! WOOO!!! We also taught some older investigators that
have been progressing slowly. We were able to find what is keeping them from
being baptized, and they are now both preparing to be baptized in January. The
Book of Mormon is the word of God and has a great power. A great spiritual
power comes from reading the Book of Mormon and praying daily.
Sabado (Saturday) we
found another awesome family!! This lesson was interesting... They were a reference
from members, but when we got there, they had lots of family over for the
holidays. Equally, we want to invite all to come unto Christ and before long we
were in a lesson with the entire family (like 15 people). However, one guy was
super, super Jehovah’s Witness and trying to argue and prove us wrong every
minute. Another lady was super Catholic and didn’t seem too interested. Despite
the resistance, we taught about God’s love and how He calls prophets, the
people fall into apostasy and then God calls another prophet (using the Bible
to teach everything). Once again the Spirit was very strong, and it touched
everyone (except the JW, he still tried to argue to the end). It ended up
helping us though... hahah near the end we asked, “Do you guys think we need a
living prophet today?” And a lady said, “Well seeing the confusion here between
you guys, I’d say yes, of course we need a prophet!” WOOOO!!!! It was a very
interesting lesson and quite different as we tried to maintain the Spirit in
the room. God definitely helped us though, and we left them all with Books of
Mormons and the challenge to find out if it’s true or not (even with the JW).
;)
Domingo (Sunday) was AWESOME!!!!
The entire Venezuelan family came! Louisa came! Several other awesome investigators
came!! WOOOOO!!! GOD IS GOOD. We had interviews with the mission President in the
afternoon, and it was nice to express all my feelings with him. :) I love
Colombia and the people here. I love serving God and being a representative of
Jesus Christ. Changing missions is tough, especially since they are extreme
opposites (mission wise) but focusing on the work and the people here is
helping me block out the nonsense. :)
Les amo!!
Elder Sorensen