Sound off Mormons!

This week was honestly pretty good.

Exchanges on Wednesday with Elder Dundon. Multi-zone conference on Friday. 

My favorite day from this week was Sunday because we were able to get Carlos and Rosa to church! Elder Bailey and I were also able to teach the Gospel Principles class. The topic was the Atonement of Jesus Christ, which is just an awesome topic to be able to testify on, so it was very enjoyable to be able to teach in that setting. We actually received a few compliments from a few members and investigators who really liked the lesson. Definitely a confidence booster and I hope to have more opportunities like that in the future!

We were able to get back in with Rosa again, and we had a powerful lesson with her about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. She wants to continue learning and growing in this gospel, but it will be poco a poco. She will be out of town a lot for the next 2 months, so we are planning on doing some Skype lessons! 

We had a lesson with Carlos during the week. We taught him the Gospel of Jesus Christ and committed him to live the Word of Wisdom. He is progressing super well for his baptism on May 6th. Like I mentioned, he came to church and he made some good friends and from what he told us, he enjoyed it! 

We are teaching another man named Carlos Maldonado, and he actually is strikingly similar to our other Carlos. He accepted a baptismal date for May 13th after we taught him The Restoration. Unfortunately, he didn't make it to church. We also got by Eduardo Saturday night and invited him to church, he said he would come, but didn't make it again. Our solution for these people... Get more members in lessons so they can make friends.

Whenever Elder Dundon and I were on exchanges, we had just ate dinner and we were going to contact a referral that we had. We got out of the car and elder Dundon and I both felt like we should talk to this one women who was sitting on a porch with her son. She immediately let us sit down and talk with her and her son outside. We learned after a little bit that her 16 year old son didn't believe in God and didn't like church at all. We addressed that pretty easily with him, and the mom was really nice to us, but was opposed to accepting a Book of Mormon to read at that time. She kind of just wanted us to help her talk to her son, but she and her family still have potential to grow. The funniest thing actually happened during this lesson. This guy comes out of nowhere and is walking by where we are sitting. He starts yelling and screaming at some other neighbors, and then he sees us sitting down and starts yelling at us saying something like "oh y'all are some men of God over there? Are you all Jehovah witnesses??" I shake my head no as the conversation with this potential investigator starts to die down as we are wondering what is going on. The crazy guy then yells, "Mormons?" 

I shake my head yes and then he gives us the all time one-liner, "SOUND OFF, MORMONS!" 

At this point, I reply back to him "Christ is our Savior!"  He was just spazzing out the whole time and I think the last question he asked us was how can he be better and I just told him "Follow Christ and you'll be blessed." 

At one point, it looked like he was going to try to come closer to us and actually walk in the woman's yard, so the woman had her son try to call the cops, but all ended up being okay! Just have to stay cool and also just so happen to pray for safety in the opening prayer! A funny experience, but more importantly, hopefully we can teach this woman and her family some more.

Multi zones were pretty good too. The only thing is that we had to trade cars with the sister missionaries out in Anza, so they have the Toyota Tacoma now and we have a older Nissan Fronteir truck. We did win the cleanest car award though and came close to having the cleanest apartment too (partly because we got rid of our old couch hahah). 

I've been reading in the middle of Alma this week during my personal study, and just feasting on the words of the GOATs of missionary work: Alma and the Sons of Mosiah. I liked Alma 29:14. It shows how we have a more complete joy when we can be happy and support others as they work hard and have success. From all the scriptures about missionary work, we learn how much happiness we have and how great our reward will be as we work diligently to bring others to Christ.

Take care

Elder Moon 

Pics: 

Taking away the couch that we had in our apt, that we had previously found on the street

Multi zones

Hemet and San Jacinto zones from the hike