We
had an amazing week! I honestly feel so blessed to be serving in an
area with so many strong church leaders. On Monday we had the family
home evening with Alejandro, Elder Godoy, and his family. Alejandro is
progressing so well. We had another lesson with him, his mom, and the
bishop this week, and the mom is more excited about her son joining the
church because the bishop is so willing to look after him and his
progress in the church. Also we are teaching José Chaman who came to
church for the first time yesterday. He is friends with the daughter of
Elder Moscosso. And today the Moscosso family is going to bring José to
the Area offices for some christmas activity with the area presidency.
José is really intelligent. And he didn´t progress very much before
because we wasn´t willing to accept many things that didn´t agree with
his scientific understanding. But teaching him made me remember a talk
from Elder Uchtdorf in the first general conference in my mission, where
he talked about how we could go back in time and tell people that there
are giant metal machines that can carry dozens of people thousands of
feet in the air at hundreds of miles per hour, and they would tell us
that we were crazy because based on the current human understanding at
that time, heavy things fall. But now, based on our current human
understanding we know that it is possible. So I used that example and
Elder Montoya used a scripture that talks about using the methods of men
to understand the things of men and methods of the spirit to understand
spiritual things. He really liked that, and now he´s willing to get
baptized on the 26th!
Last night President Larson invited Elder Montoya
and I to watch the christmas devotional in his house with his family. We
brought the Ortiz family and they really enjoyed it. Arantza left
yesterday morning to New York for 4 months through a work and travel
program, so they were feeling a little bit sad that their 2 eldest
daughters weren´t going to be home for christmas. I´m beginning to
realize how privileged our investigators are here. On Friday we had
lunch with the Ortiz family because Arantza was about to leave and
Arantza invited one of her friends that came to her baptism, named
Andrea. The word Lamanites was brought up and she asked what that meant,
so we explained the story of the Book of Mormon to her with the
pictures at the beginning of the book. She was really amazed and
interested in the book because she never knew what it was about. Their
daughter Arianna was watching the Lion King in the other room and while
we were teaching about the Book of Mormon the idea came into my head to
explain that the difference between the Bible and the Book of Mormon is
the difference between the Lion King and the Lion King 1 1/2 (the one
that explains the story of Timon and Pumba). It is the same story, just
from different perspectives and places. Simba, the son of the king,
appears in both. They really liked that example. Andrea is really
interested but she lives 2 blocks outside of the ward boundaries in
Lince. So we´re going to have to pass the reference. This week we were
looking for the address of someone we had contacted before and we
knocked on the door and a woman with her 3 year old daughter came out,
she was in a hurry, and she didn´t have time to talk, she wasn´t the
person we were looking for, but she asked us were our church was so she
could attend on Sunday. We explained where it was and we offered to pick
them up on Sunday morning and she said yes. When we came by on Sunday
morning she was all ready with her daughter waiting for us. She isn´t a
member of any church and she has never talked to missionaries before,
but she stayed for all 3 hours, and we have an appointment on Wednesday.
I´ve never seen that happen before on my mission, we still haven´t
taught her anything.
I hope you guys have a great week!
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