Another week
comes and goes! Shout out to the PV volleyball team for winning state!!!!!!
We didn´t
have a ton of progress with our investigators this week but some great
experiences as always...
On Wednesday
we got to visit Dayane for the first time which was the lady that just randomly
showed up to church last week. We showed up and just started talking to her and
her son waiting for her husband to get home. When he walked in we just thought,
man this guy is def an atheist and is going to be hard to teach. Haha but I
really learned not to judge because when we were teaching he was one of the
most focused and sincere people I have ever taught. We asked him why he thought
there were so many churches today when Christ established one when He was here
and he replied basically reciting the apostasy section from Preach My Gospel. It was awesome. This family has so much potential and I am super
excited to continue teaching them.
Thursday we
had a lesson with Daniely. We taught the Plan of Salvation and the Spirit was
strong. At the end we asked her if she wanted to be baptized and she said yes!
But then her mom (who is a member) got mad at us and started saying that we
were pressuring her and that she wants her daughter to know for sure that this
is what she wants to do. I was just thinking, why in the world are you stopping
your daughter from being baptized when you have a testimony? haha. But sometimes
you just have to put yourself in their shoes and see their perspective. So for
now we are going to continue teaching her and see what happens.
On Saturday
we were visiting our surf investigator, Devan and he is really struggling. He
just recently got divorced after 20+ years with his wife and he is super sad.
We taught him the Gospel of Jesus Christ but he wasn´t very focused. He tells
us that he is super grateful for our friendship and he actually reads the Book
of Mormon every single day for an hour which helps him out.
At night we
visited a family where the mom is a recent convert but stopped going to church
and the dad isn´t a member. Their 18 year old daughter ran away recently with
some guy and it has been super hard on them. We talked with them and then left
a message about trials and Jesus Christ. We shared Matthew 11:28-30. I told
them that I have no idea what they are passing through because I have never
gone through anything even close to this but that Jesus Christ knew exactly
what they were feeling. Not only that. but He is there to take this feeling from
you. Alma 34 talks about how the atonement is infinite and eternal. which means
that it covers everything we can imagine and more.
I am so
thankful for these humbling experiences. When I was saying my prayers at night,
I was thanking Heavenly Father for the opportunity to meet these people. I felt
the Spirit say to me that He visits people through the missionaries. It may
seem kind of obvious. but it hit me really hard that everything I do as a
missionary really needs to be through the Spirit because Heavenly Father wants
to talk to His children through me, and through the Spirit He tells us where to
go and what to say.
On Sunday it
rained super hard which means people decide that sleep is better than church so
that ,was kind of sad. but it´s all good. I had the opportunity to teach Gospel
Principles about repentance and we discussed a lot about how through
repentance, we can progress every single day and become more like Christ.
Have a great
week! Love you all as always!
Sempre fica
firme, forte e feliz!!
Elder Scheer
