JANUARY 22, 2018
We had a pretty interesting contact this week that I would like to start with.
We were walking, and I said Buenas! to a guy sitting down. He said, Hola hermano. Como me le va! So we contacted him, and he told us he was siting down to cool off, because he was very angry. We asked why. The single Pastor of his church (single as in no wife) went to his house, and took his wife out to lunch and to eat ice cream. He had been sitting waiting for them for two hours. The pastor had said they would get there at 2 pm for example and they still hadn't arrived at 4 pm. So that will be a pretty good future investigator.
We found another family that I had contacted a long time ago. We finally got an appointment with them. It is a family of six, but the Mom and Dad refuse to talk to each other. So we taught the Dad and the four kids about the Book of Mormon. The oldest children came to church this week, but the Dad had to work.
Last experience. We got a reference from Elder Ardila in October of a woman, Elena Patricia. We had went to her house very fifteen days, more or less to see if we could find her and we invite her to every baptism in the district and other activities. Well, she couldn't for whatever reason for that whole time. Yesterday, Sunday, we went and knocked on her door. Her brother came out. We said we came for Elena. He said she wan't home. We just asked if we could talk with him. (He's in the third floor of the house) and he tossed us the keys and we went up. That is a lot of trust to just throw the keys to people you have never seen or met before. But he was really paying attention, and right after the first prayer, Elena walked in to the lesson also. They both were very receptive and we scheduled return appointment for Friday afternoon.
So it will probably be my last week in the area because we will have transfers Sunday. Next time I'll be writing I'll be from a new part of COLOMBIA!
In the last two paragraphs of the introduction of the Book of Mormon, it reads:
We invite all men everywhere to read the Book of Mormon, to ponder in their hearts the message it contains, and then to ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ if the book is true. Those who pursue this course and ask in faith will gain a testimony of its truth and divinity by the power of the Holy Ghost. (See Moroni 10:3–5.)
Those who gain this divine witness from the Holy Spirit will also come to know by the same power that Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world, that Joseph Smith is His revelator and prophet in these last days, and that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the Lord’s kingdom once again established on the earth, preparatory to the Second Coming of the Messiah.
Elder Connor Tracy
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