So this week was interesting there was a lot of great
things and really weird things. We will start with Sunday. Sunday was fast and
testimony meeting and Saturday we went to Yeni’s house and invited her to share
her testimony. And she agreed to do it. She came to church a little late but
she shared her testimony and it was amazing!!! I just get chills thinking
about. I just wanted to cry. The spirit was so unbelievably strong. I wanted to
cry. She has had a real conversion. Yeni told us about herself before she met
the missionaries and she used to be an angry person. Her husband has seen such a big change in her
as well. It’s amazing. And I’m so grateful I was allowed to be part of her
conversion and to know her it was amazing. But also during the fast and
testimony meeting one of our investigators that has come to church two times
and we have never taught him got up. We were terrified. This guy is a little
off. We didn’t even know he was at church when we saw him get up. He is a
cancer patient so he only talked about that and said kind of a bad word. It was
kind of funny. His name is Jeremias and he is in love with my companion. After
church was out he asked my companion to marry him.
Also at church we had an investigator whose name is Juan.
Juan contacted us on Tuesday and said he always sees us and wants to know more
about our church and has the desire to know what church is true and on Friday
we taught him. We taught him lesson one and he had a bunch of weird
evangelicals ideas and we showed him a ton of scriptures in the Bible. He liked
what we taught and we gave him a Book of Mormon and he liked the idea of it. It
was funny because he had a meeting with his pastor after us and he hides his Book
of Mormon in his sweater and a little while later we saw him and his pastor. It
cracked me up. But he came to church on Sunday only for the first hour. It will
be interesting to see what happens with him.
Also this week we found Edvin again. He disappeared
because he stopped working at his job and we ran into him the other day. He has
been reading the Book of Mormon while we weren’t visiting him. And he knows the
next step is baptism. But he never comes to church. He promised he would this
Sunday but he didn’t come, which stinks because he is so prepared!!!!
Also we had an amazing lesson with Violeta this week. She
is a woman of so much faith! It’s incredible!!! She has the greatest testimony
of prayer and what faith can do. And she knows Heavenly Father will answer her
prayers if the church is true. She told us a ton of amazing stories. She is so
prepared as well. She just hasn’t come to church yet. We called her Sunday
morning to verify and she told us that she was sick. But we have a lesson with
her tonight. Hopefully it all goes well.
The Perez family is progressing a lot as well. They are
the cutest little family. They invited us to dinner the other day and we ate
fish. But here they don’t degut the fish. It has its tail head everything. It
actually didn’t taste too bad it just grossed me out that there was a fish tail
on my plate. But I really really hope they accept baptism too. They are
adorable. Yesterday we went with them and shared the Because of Him video. They
really liked it.
But the weirdest thing that happened was with the brother
in law of Brenda. The really funny family where we tried on Corte. So we taught
Brenda and one of her sisters and her mom lesson one. And they accepted it
really well even though they are crazy evangelists. Well her brother in law is
a crazy nut job of an evangelist. He told us that he read the pamphlet we left
and then he said he has studied a lot about our church, which he was confusing
us with Jehovah Witnesses. Then he started on about how he has seen God. But
first he told us that before he did a deal with the devil and that he was a
druggy. And that he started a fire that was his fault and three ppl died and
that he burned a child and the mom of the child was a witch and that the witch
cursed him. And that he got really sick and skinny, but had a huge stomach. So
he went to a wizards place and that the wizard told him about his life and that
in his stomach he had dirt from a cemetery, five fingers and a brain. And that
he threw up only the dirt and he couldn’t afford the wizard anymore so his mom
took him to a woman pastor that prayed for him and healed him and he had a vision
and he met God. He didn’t see him but
heard his voice and that God told him he needs to teach the gospel and whole
bunch of other crap. But when he was talking he confused himself and he doesn’t
know anything. I wanted to take my Bible out and show him how it really is but
I knew we would only fight. So we just left after his long rant. I’m pretty
sure he is still on drugs.
But that experience just made me so unbelievably grateful
for the gospel and the truth that we do have! And that we are the only living
gospel that has the authority from God. We are so blessed to know the truth!!!
and I’m so blessed to be sharing the truth. I love it so much. and I don’t want
to go home. I do want to see everyone again. But I just love the mission so
much...
Oh…also Saturday we had a stake activity…it was a
cultural afternoon. I don’t quite understand why we had to be there but it was
fun to see all the dances. The elders also did a very interesting dance. But it
was a great week all in all! As always thanks for your love and support! Have
an amazing week!
Love,
Hna Anderson
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