October 13, 2014

I Love Argentina. This week we not only had great lunches but great lessons! haha we have been crazy blessed with a ton of people to teach and the opportunity to share something that no one else has! 

    This week, every single lesson we taught had to do with the restoration and the importance of having a living prophet. IT was pretty amazing seeing how our teaching improved in 1 week as we taught basically the same thing the whole time. The most incredible part was the power of the spirit that we felt during those lessons (some better than others). We had quite a few miracles because of it.

    One miracle was a family that we found because one of the sisters saw us walk passed and yelled "hello" in english. At first I thought they were just mocking us, but then wefelt as if we should have goneback. So we turned around and went back to talk to them and the girl that yelled ran and hid. We gained the confidence a little bit and then were able to figure out a little more about their lives. We shared the message that we had, and then at the end we asked them what they thought when we first got there compared to when we left. We sang "ama el pastor sus ovejas" and they were in tears at the end. They went from laughing at us to crying because of us. They have brothers that are younger and aren`t doing the best things and they felt as if we were literally sent from God to help them.
    Another miracle is Matias. I LOVE THAT FAMILY. We passed by to teach him a little bit more about the Gospel of Jesus Christ and instead of us teaching him, he took the pamphlet and taught his 6 year old daughter. IT was so precious!!! I was so happy to see that not only did he understand it, but he had the desire to teach it to his family.

    Another was a less active family that had not gone to church for years. We passed by and taught them....guess which lesson.....the Restoration. They said that they never really understood the importance of the book of mormon, and didn`t really have a lot of faith in Joseph smith. So we invited them to read and then to "come and see" as elder bednar said in the conference.

    I have been spending all this last week just looking for all of the little evidences of why this is the true church, and besides just the obvious Scriptural evidences, I also was able to find so many more!. One young man asked us, Why is your church so rich? If they want to, they buy land and they build a church. We responded, "do you think if God had his church on earth today, then he would have power enough to build his kingdom?" EVIDENCE. Another person was talking about how everyone has the right to worship God where and How they want to. Which is very true, but Worshipping and making sacred covenants with God through Saving Ordenanzes are different things. In a classroom environment the students can all give their opinions, but when it is time to be taught...Who is it that teaches....? The teacher. In a house, who is it that leads...? The parents. For anyone that believes in God, they then also believe that he created all things. And in the creation of all things he established an order. And that order is and will be in all things. Especially in His Church!

    What I learned is that if we have a disire to gain a testimony, we have to look for evidences of truth and not excuses or reasons why not. Jesus never looked for the bad in things, so why should we? 

    Sorry for maybe ranting a little bit...I just took Elder Bednar`s invitation to "come and See" and went crazy with it. If any of you ever find yourselving doubting the church, than follow the advice given by an apostle. And Look for the Good that comes from it. I love this Gospel. And I know it is True.

I don`t have pictures this week, but next week i`ll get some. Love you guys!!

~Elder Hazlett