Hey Mom and family, 5-9-12
Yeah everything should be all ok with Skype this week. I’m not too sure when yet it might need to be
on Saturday and it might need to be early.
Friday night I’m going to call and confirm everything at like 8-ish or
9-ish so 3-ish or 4-ish your time because I still need to see what’s open and what’s
not.
I've been learning quite a bit about the member’s role in
missionary work this last week as well.
This last week we had a baptism.
It was some less actives 10-yr-old son.
He doesn’t even live in our area.
I feel like the Lord wants to bless us for our hard work that we're
putting in, but He doesn’t want to bless our ward. Not that our ward is bad our filled with
apostasy or something, but because of pride that's starting to come into their
hearts. Our ward is just not growing due
to a lack of sacrifice and desire to do good in our ward. It's not ready to receive new members because
the Lord knows that they just won’t care for them. So He's not showing us those golden baptisms
so that we don’t end up condemning them for getting baptized and then falling
away from the church. This happened with
one of our last baptisms a couple months ago.
No one went to his baptism, even though it was right after church and everyone
was still there. They weren’t there to
support him and after his baptism they completely forgot about him. I’m not complaining about the ward, I just
think it's interesting to see that there's a whole other part to missionary
work that doesn’t directly involve the missionaries. If the ward isn't wanting to maintain,
strengthen, and help new members, then the Lord simply won’t give new members
to them. I think that our work in Cosmópolis is going to have to be a lot
less knocking doors, doing contacts, and even asking references from members,
but to humble the members and place a feeling of sacrifice into their
hearts. Anyway, there isn’t too much new
that happened this last week. We taught
some English teachers some English like grammar and mainly just
pronunciation. We think we found a
teacher that has a bit of interest in the church so we're going to plan on
going there one of these days.
But yeah, I can't wait to skype, don't worry about the
details, I already checked out the usernames and whatnot and everything’s
fine. I just need to find a place to use
it still. So this week expect a call for
me to confirm. Love you!
Elder Williams
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