Hey Mom and Family, 8-15-12
I’m sure you'll do just fine in Africa. It should be good. This week was good. I’m feeling like our zone is really starting
to get that fire that they need to have success. These past couple of weeks has been tough for
them due to a lack of baptizing, but now there are quite a bit of areas that'll
baptize. We've been trying to help
excite them and make them all work together, increasing their faith. And this week it looks like they have some
people that'll get baptized. Today we
played soccer and it was super tiring.
It was a good zone activity.
So last Friday we got a new companion and we were working in
three until now. This kid lives in our
mission and was just helping us out. He
served in the north part of brazil but had to go back home to do a surgery and
now he's trying to go back to his mission by serving with us to see if he can
make it through another year and a half there.
But it looks like he just can't.
His leg is just hurting way too much, so he's going home today. It's pretty sad. These past couple of days that he was with
us, we really got a good friendship going.
It's interesting though. It makes
me think of him and our president and other people that didn’t have an
opportunity to serve a complete mission.
I guess that God just accepts our maximum. For example, President Tanner was totally
wanting to serve for the 3 years but God wanted something else from him, and so
he lowered his health down a little bit, so that it was needed for him to go
back home. Anyways, we were bumbed a
little bit.
Remember Doriedson that almost got baptized? We stopped by last Saturday to give a present
that we got him (which was just a shirt and a tie) and then marked to stop by
his house the next day to go to church together. However the next Sunday we stopped by and he
came to the door holding the present we gave him. And he said that he “doesn’t wear this types
of clothes", meaning church clothes.
Later we were talking with him.
He received an answer about the Book of Mormon and he knows that the
church is true, but he just doesn’t want to get baptized. We told him that because of these answers
that he's getting he needs to act, but he says that he's waiting for God to
give him a bigger answer that he could accept.
He's pretty prideful in that sense.
He deserves “just the best".
Anyways, a way that we as missionaries give incentive and a
desire to read the book of Mormon and to truly search out an answer is to
promise blessings. Our president had us
think about why other churches have so many members and so many tithe payers
when they don't even have authority. He
said that it’s because the pastors just promise a ton of blessings to their
congregations. Us as members of the
church and especially as missionaries have that authority and that right to
promise the blessings from God. Because
as the scriptures says by the mouths of my servants or by my own mouth it is
the same. Neat huh? So with the non-members that you are working
with, promise them a lot of blessings and show how it has changed your own life
together with the life of our family.
Yeah so Lucimar is marked to get baptized this Saturday, so
pray that everything will work out. Her
son has been really sick so she hasn’t been able to see us too much. Anyways, love you!
Elder Williams
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