How are you?? It was wonderful to hear from you and to hear how
things are going back home!! We had a good week!! We have 2 investigators that
will be baptized this coming Saturday. D.A. and M.S. They are both sweethearts
and have really progressed in the gospel.. It has been interesting to see the
Lord bless our daily work and bring to pass miracles in our area...
Elder F, my trainer, will be going home this week.. I had
the opportunity to go on an exchange with him for the last time this past
week... And he taught me something very profound that would love to share with
you. We went to teach a Jehovah's witness together.. I do not know if you know
much about them, but they are know for being very devout members of their
faith. They tract door to door and are often times very argumentative.. His
name was N, and he is wonderful, kind and open to learn the truth... Our purpose
going in was to show him in the bible where in said that Jehovah was Jesus
Christ, because we as latter day saints know that He is. And then invite him to
study it out for himself and pray to know if it is true. And as we opened it
was going well, but i drifted from our plan and began to butt heads with him a
bit... And no longer knowing what to say, i looked at Elder F and he simply
said, mogen wij verder gaan... May we continue.? And as we did the spirit
returned and the very last scripture that we shared really got him thinking.
The spirit was very strong and he openly took a long list of scriptures that we
had prepared that morning, with the intention to search them out for himself. But the lesson i learned came after the lesson.... As we rode off, i was a bit
discouraged at what i had done.. But my companion looked at me and said its ok..
Look at the changes he did make and the things he was able to learn. The Lord works through small and simple means to bring to past great things to come
to pass. I was so grateful for his counsel. He opened my eyes to the many
tender mercies the Lord had blessed us with during the lesson and the whole
picture became more positive. I am going to miss him, I love him. Elder F has
done so much for me.. But other than that i am working hard to finish my
mission strong.
Love
Elder Garcia
ps we have 2 baptisms this week.. Ill talk about them next week!
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