Hola todos!
Estaba pensando y quiero escribir un momento en Español. Di un discurso el Domingo durante la reunión sacramental. Estoy muy agradecido por el amor del Señor que el me has dado. El siempre está cuidándonos y podemos ver la mano de Él en nuestra vida. Estoy muy agradecido por el Don de Lenguas y sé que es por el poder del Señor que puedo comunicarme en este idioma.
I hope that some of you are able to follow that. This week we have been doing a ton of contacting, but we have been blessed. We dropped I think 5 of our investigators. That is about half of them, and three of the ones we kept are from the same family. Needless to say, we had to put a lot of trust in the Lord this week. To top it off, we as missionaries gave the talks for Sacrament meeting this week. I was assigned to speak last. Personally, I felt like it was a miracle which I will explain a little more below. This week seemed long, but it was a trial of faith.
Good things!
1. At the start of the week we visited and had a wonderful lesson with a relatively new investigator named Lorena. She was super prepared to listen and accept. Sadly, before her lesson this Saturday, she went to her own church and her pastor told her she cannot meet with us anymore. It was super sad. I learned that everyone has their agency, and that there is an opposition. Also, it testifies to me that our message is true because there is no way that this sort of opposition just happens. The converse is also true in that when the Lord blesses, there is no comparison.
2. Though we may not have had super success until the end, we were being guided by the hand of the Lord. On Wednesday, things just did not go right for us, however, we did find many people that are prepared to receive the gospel, but they speak english. Despite this, we were where we needed to be when the Lord needed us to be.
3. Blessings come after the trial of our faith. We had not had great success but had a very full day of appointments planned for Sunday. All of them fell through. We did find a less active, who I'm not sure if he remembers that he was baptized. It then rained on us. Correlation canceled. Our Branch mission leader did bring us food. Later, an appointment we had confirmed, didn't show up and there were a bunch of drunk guys. At the very end of the day, we knocked, for the second time this day, on a potential who had previously been to church and is the cousin to a more or less recent convert. She gladly welcomed us in. We taught her about the restoration and that God's authority is on the earth. We invited her to baptism and she accepted. The Spirit knows all things, and testifies of all truth.
The Lord watches over us all.
Sincerely,
Elder Haynie
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