Last Monday, we went by a man we had briefly contacted the week before and he didn't seem super promising. We stopped by anyways and he let us in, but started getting pretty angry with us and it seemed like he wanted to bash. I was getting a pretty weird feeling about it becuase we had to ask him a few times if we could start by saying a prayer. He kept on putting off the question, but finally he said that it would be ok. So we prayed and just like that, he started opening up to us and we were able to share the Plan of Salvation with him.
On Tuesday, we had our district meeting, and then right after, we went to the Institute building to have a lesson with a less active member who just had her records moved over to our ward. She is going to school at UCR, so we wanted her to get to meet the director of the Institute program there. We invited the sister missionaries in our ward to come help us teach a lesson to her, but honestly I didn't have any idea what we would share, so I prayed the night before. Fast forward to 6:30 the next morning: the alarm clock goes off, and immediately a thought comes to my head, Patriarchal Blessings. For anyone who is unfamiliar with what a Patriarchal Blessings are blessings given to worthy Church members by ordained patriarchs. A patriarchal blessing contains the Lord’s counsel for the person receiving the blessing and declares that person’s lineage in the house of Israel. They give us guidance, comfort and protection as we live worthy of those blessings.
So we shared this message with her and she loved it! She felt the Spirit strong and has a strong desire to come back to church and to be able to receive her patriarchal blessing sometime in the future!
We spent more time this week helping out some less actives and I know that they were feeling the Spirit, so now it's just their decision to act on it!
We taught Rigoberto this week and his answer to everything (especially when it comes to an invitation we are extending him) is "Yo les aviso" (translated...I'll let you know). I'm really not a fan of that haha because we are trying to get a clear yes or no to see if he is going to come to church, read, pray, be baptized, but he just wants to let us know later. We were street contacting in the area by his house one night, and his family was having a party, but Rigoberto was wearing a pretty awesome t shirt, so I had to get a pic with him.
Juan came to church and he is still doing well. All the recent converts will be going to the temple next month to do baptisms, so we are just trying to add to the number of people who will be on that trip!! We taught 2 brothers this week as well. We had planned to go by a guy named Adrian on Friday, but his brother Alfredo was the only one there, so we taught him and he is pretty interested in reading the Book of Mormon. We stopped by on Sunday to teach Alfredo again, but we talked to Adrian instead and were able to teach him and his son. Adrian opened up a lot because his mother passed away 2 years ago, and his mother taught him a lot from the Bible. He was hesitant these last 2 years to go to church and read the scriptures because it made him miss his mom, but we were able to turn a corner and he felt a lot of peace and comfort in his heart. We were able to testify of how thin the veil is that separates us and how he can live with his mom once again, but he needs to put his life in God's hands. Really powerful lesson to end the week! It was also my comps 20th bday this last Sunday, so the members have been treating us extra nice! We heard Saturday night that BYU beat #6 Wisconsin, so I wore my BYU tie on Sunday!!
It was a good way to end the week, and now we are looking to start this week strong!
Elder Moon
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