Hi!
We have a baptism coming up on the 24th of this month! his name is Zaul Avila the father and husband of the whole less active family.
So here is what happened! we were reading with Olivia who is less active 3 Nephi 17 about when Christ came to the Americas then her husband Zaul came in and join us as soon as we were about to start and we were reading and they were super attentive, then i don't know why i just had to share Mosiah 18:8-10 about what it means to be baptized and what we need to do after and always which is to lift one another's burdens and stand as a witness of God at all times, then we said "if this is the desire of your heart, Will you follow the example of Jesus Christ and be baptized by someone who holds the proper priesthood authority of God?"
"yes, i will"
(at this point our spirits are on fire and smiled really big) "we will be holding a date, will you prepare yourself for that day?"
"yes we need to prepare because i am not ready"
"we know you are not ready, and we are here to help you.'
We are so so happy for him and we know he will be such a strength to his family and he can help us be a missionary with his son ans daughter in law who we are teaching. we also chose someone to fellowship him which is super important, so everyone back home please do your home and visiting teaching it is so important to bring others unto Christ.
We found 4 new investigators this week and it was glorious, we have learned that we should always go with our plans even if they aren't as convenient as other people that we can go visit. We've been cleaning up the area book an have found a few formers and as we were looking for one we found out she moved and the new neighbors were a brother and sister and they are teenagers and they are really nice, we are super excited to teach them. We testified that Jesus Loves them and what the Book of Mormon teaches us, and the Saviors Atonement that made it possible for us to be forgiven and to have a way to return back to our Heavenly Father with our families, and they were so interested and my companion explained how they will feel the spirit testify to them that it is true and we helped them recall some spiritual moments they've had while reading the Bible and that when they read the Book of Mormon they can feel that same peace and happiness! i am so proud of her she is really applying what we practice in the mornings!
The other is a mom of an investigator that wants to get baptized now but his mom wont let him toil he turns 16 and he is 14 right now, he also wants to go on a mission, and he says that the Catholics are getting stricter in missionary work, but he doesn't want to go on a Catholic mission like his mom wants him to,he wants to go serve as a missionary as a Mormon. haha
We were called the MOB which stands for Mormons on Bikes, this lady told us that when her little brother sees the Elders he yells the MOB is coming! it was way funny.
So we are teaching the mom which is super nice she is really nice and she loves us talking to her son, because she knows we teach about God, so we taught her a 10 minute lesson on the Restoration and also "How to begin teaching" because we had to go another appointment wow that is something I've never done before it is actually harder than teaching a 40 minute lesson! i love her! we have a lot of faith in her.
We also met this man his name is Juan, we got to know him in his front porch and taught him the restoration and gave him to read the BOM and he said he will,then we visited him and he wasn't home, then we went again another day and he was just leaving but we go to talk to him a lot and he said he hasn't had the chance to read it but he wants to, and he will let us know if he has any questions..:)
Well i gotta go toodalooo!
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