This week was incredible!!! We started out the
incredibleness with all the miracles that we saw with all our investigators.
Just little miracles that they had read the scriptures and had good experiences
with that, or that they had found out that they had family that was a member
and they had recently invited them to church. Just a bunch of little things
that helped keep us excited.
Thursday was a little bit of a rough day because we woke up
in the morning and finished with our divisions with the assistents and came
back to plan. We left to work and EVERYTHING fell through....we were a little
bit exhausted and didn´t know what to do, but we didn´t lose our faith and we
kept on going! We went to visit a few more people and they weren´t there
either...so we decided to head to an area where we had one more
contact. As we walked, we walked passed a house and kept walking....but
then we felt as if we should go back. So we followed that feeling and it ended
up being a family that had always wanted to know what we did and was very
excited to read the book of mormon. She already had other plans for sunday but
she said she is now waiting anxiously for us to pass by this tuesday.
After her, we found another miracle guy. In the morning I
was really struggling thinking that it was going to be a LONG day, but I had
faith that we were gonna find someone and we did!
LAter on in the week. Friday, we woke up and studied and
then got excited to go to the wedding of Rodrigo and Betty. They got married on
friday morning and it was soooo great, but the best part was friday night. We
had planned a few weeks erlier to go to the temple with them and another
family, but we thought it all wasnpt going to work out. S owe had kind of
thrown that idea out...but then, as we were planning that night, we called the
member who had a car to go to the temple and he said "lets go!!!" so
he talked to his brother (rodrigo who was getting baptized that night) and he
took his car and we were able to go with not only rodrigo and his dad who then
were getting baptized, but with Jessica and Matias as well who are getting
married now in November so that they can get baptized, so that they can enter
the temple. They understand PERFECTLY the goal. Not just baptism, but the
eternal family. They got some books and stuff at the temple, a picture of the
Salt Lake Temple, and Joseph Smith because they have a huge testimony of Joseph
Smith.
Then we went back to our area and prepped for the baptism.
IT was AMAZING! Three generations of the family got baptized at the same
time.
Sunday morning, they all were there and were confirmed and
Jessica and Matias said, "we are next." Families are what makes the
church go round. I am so glad that we have been blessed with so many families
here to teach and help. This morning, Jessica and Matias sent us a message that
just thanked us for how much we have helped and changed their lives. They said
that we are their Angels here on earth. I consider them some of my best friends
because they are pretty young still. They are already planning with the other 3
families of recent converts to all get sealed to gether so that Elder Collins
and I can plan a trip to come back here to be there. I love it when familes put
their Goal as the temple because that is when they really have success and
conversion. But for reals, my companion and I were talking about that. IF a
family has their goal of being temple worthy and /or getting to the temple to
be sealed, they will progress soooo much more in life.
I lvoe these families and I know that this is the true
church and that when applied in the lives of anyone, the lives of Everyone will
change!
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~Elder Hazlett
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