Gabino, a previous less active I've been talking too, decided to serve a mission! I've been sending him texts every now and then about the blessings he can receive as he decides to go, and yesterday I called him and he said he's for sure going on his mission and that he'll talk to president Torres next week!
Also, Alexander (and maybe Bascillia) are going to be baptized next month. They met with Pt. Torres and are progressing wonderfully. We talked to the husband and he says he likes what he heard and could be baptized in the near future also.
Milka is going to come to church this week finally! Her husband gave her permission to be baptized next month as well along with her daughter.
Don Joawakin is struggling with giving up drinking but has made huge progress.
We found two inactive young men, Walter (16) and Freddie (14) who will probably come back to church the next week as well. They, along with many other less actives, have been experiencing difficulties with members who have offended them in the past. The members here have been, unfortunately, the cause of offense and a barrier in the way of less actives coming back. Whether it be punching people in the face, insulting words, or not saying hi when they see each other in the street, feuds here in this little village can last a life time with eternal consequence.
On the personal side I've learned a lot this week. It's been very tough though. After finishing Jesus The Christ and all the other books in the library, I'm running out of things to learn so I've been rereading the Book of Mormon over again every day.
We went to the capital this week in Guatemala so we haven't been able to do much work. We only spent two days in our own area actually. We stayed the night with a bunch of missionaries bout to end their mission. It was crazy to think of that happening in the future. We're going to have an apostle come in February and I am going to play piano at the meeting. Nothing much new happened this week, other then that we had a really awesome experience with teaching a newly married man to pray for the first time.
We were sitting together and I bore my testimony about the truth of the gospel and asked them if they felt it was true. they all said yes and the husband agreed to pray for the first time. It was a great experience. The best experiences are the ones where we don't have to convince them or use logic to say why they should pray they just feel like the should themselves.
I read Grandpa Young's mission papers. Wow he was successful. It's crazy to think that he baptized that many people every week. It makes me feel like a little bit of a failure, but we'll see baptisms soon.
We played alot of ball iwth this family. They also agreed to feed as as we did service for them. THey heard our message.
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| For a Pday activity the missionaries went to Racana and they walked to this waterfall. |
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