We had a pretty good week. You're never going to believe this. I'm still in shock. We had an investigator come to church. It was weird. We didn't know what to do or how to act. hahah! Well to start off, it was great to be able to skype you all. I definitely enjoyed it. It kind of makes the next few days interesting though. You can see it in all the missionaries after they had skyped. You could literally see everyone's "trunkiness". If you don't know what that means, ask a returned missionary. Well I goofed and I left my camera at the apartment so I don't have any pictures to send this week. I also left my old planner (today is start of new transfer) at the apartment so I'll have to try to remember everything that happened this week off the top of my head.
Well Tuesday was Christmas Eve, and we were invited to the Rosas home to be at their Christmas Eve party. (same family that let us skype at their place). It was a lot of fun. A lot of members of the ward were invited as well. It was a great time. They forced Elder Hillebrant and I to sing christmas hymns haha that was interesting. Christmas morning we opened our gifts. The Book of Mormon was the coolest gift ever. Thanks to all those who wrote in it. Sure miss you all. Then we had a zone breakfast. We ate breakfast as a zone and played basketball and volleyball and such. It was a lot of fun. Then we skyped! that was awesome and a lot of fun. For the rest of Christmas we went over to a family in the ward, the Major's home. They fed us dinner and we sang Christmas hymns. It was pretty fun.
So I can't remember what day it was, but we went over to a referrals house and taught him the first lesson. He had a girl there as well, I'm assuming it's his girlfriend, and it went well. I think they understood the concept of the first lesson and we committed them to read the Book of Mormon and pray about it. They said that they would. We also set up a return appointment for tomorrow. Hopefully that doesn't fall through, and hopefully it goes well :)
On Thursday we decided to go visit Laura. She didn't come to church that past Sunday so we didn't have a planned lesson with her. We showed up and talked to her for awhile. We talked about missions like the whole time. We told her about what we do and how all of it is set up and such. She thought it was very interesting and she liked it. We set up a lesson with her for Saturday. On Saturday we planned to teach her the last 2 parts of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, The Holy Ghost and Enduring to the End. We ended up talking a lot about The Book of Mormon. She said that she feels that she has to read the Bible so that she can understand all the references that The Book of Mormon makes to the Bible. A thought that I had was that the Bible is important, and that we should read it. I have been reading it and I have learned a lot, but if we read the Bible and know that it's true, do we come to a knowledge of the "One Lord, one faith, one baptism" that the Bible teaches about in Ephesians 4:5? It's not possible, considering the 700+ Christian religions that read from the Bible. If we read the Book of Mormon and pray to know if its true and receive an answer that it is, then we come to a knowledge of that one Lord, one faith, one baptism. Then, after we receive that witness, we can be able to read the Bible and understand the correct interpretations and meanings of it. The Book of Mormon has increased my testimony of the Bible, and I am grateful that God allowed for the Book of Mormon to come forth so that we can know the true interpretations and true doctrines of Christ's gospel. Anyway, she gave us a pretty promising indication that she would be coming to church on Sunday.
Well Sunday came, we thought for sure Laura was coming. She didn't. We were bummed. When sacrament was over and the usher opened the door, Laura walked in. We were so shocked. It was funny. Long story short, she loved it. The talks were good, gospel principles was great, it was all about baptism, so it fit perfectly. One really great thing about Laura is she said she doesn't feel she has fully repented. She says she needs to before she gets baptized. She is awesome and she just gets it. She loved church and the ward did a great job of welcoming her. We are really excited for what lies ahead.
Well there is a lot more that happened this week but I can't remember it all off the top of my head :( Hope everyone has a great week and I'll update you all on my new companion next week! I love you all. Keep being amazing :)
[Elder Steed]
Christmas aftermath.
Our awesome zone.
Elder Valdez (right) is the best.
Our new WML, Brother Parker.
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