Dear Family,
This week went by soo fast
because we were soo busy all week. We had zone conferences in Tulancingo and
Pachuca on Wednesday and Thursday so Tuesday in the night we went and stayed at
President´s house to be able to leave early in the morning. We did divisions
those two days with the zone leaders and then on Friday we finally got to work
in our own area except that we
did divisions with the zone leaders from Azteca so I didn´t get to work in my
area until Saturday.
So as I said last week was
super busy and we didn´t really even get for than 2 days to work I was a little
worried going into Sunday. Usually it takes a little time to find good new investigators
and when Sunday came we really hadn´t found anyone. But the whole way to the chapel
we were praying for miracles...but when we passed by for one investigator that
we had found he wasn´t there. But miracles do happen. After sacrament was over I saw a man in jeans
and a tie
talking to the bishop so I
thought I would check it out. Turns out that he hadn´t been to church in 7
years and had finally come back of his own free will. He happened to bring
along his 8 year old son and 11 year old daughter that aren´t members of the
church and left his 14 year old son at home. He expressed his intention of
coming back and
his desire to see his
children baptized. Then we went to Gospel Principles and a recent convert
presented us to her friend that she had brought to church. Her friend had come
to her of her own free will and asked that she invite her to church!! To
someone else those things might seem like petty details and interesting
consequences but to me I
recognized them as a
prayer answered. Sometimes we can´t control everything (even though we would
really love to be able to). Sometimes the answer is to give it all you got and
then sit back and pray for a miracle...but one thing I know is that I am a
disciple of Jesus Christ and He never ever leaves us out in the dark. He wants
even more than we do that we bring souls unto Christ.
In the zone conferences
Elder Jordan and I capacitated (taught) about the first lesson (or in other
words the first lesson contact with the investigator). There are three things
that are essential in the first lesson and those are
1. The invitation to church
(bread),
2. The invitation to read
and pray to know if the Book of Mormon is true(PBJ) and
3. The invitation to act
upon that answer an being baptized into the true Church of Jesus Christ
(bread).
We compared it to a PBJ sandwich.
If someone comes in and just throws a piece of bread (invite to the chapel) without
bringing the spirit or finding a need it is simply just throwing a piece of
bread and no one wants a piece of bread
thrown at them. (Elder
Jordan demonstrated by throwing a piece of bread at me). Then we presented a
nicely made PBJ sandwich (strawberry) that was cut up into triangles and
presented on a plate. I tried to invite Elder Jordan to eat the sandwich...unfortunately
he was allergic to strawberry. After starting
the lesson (like PME says in Como Comenzar a enseñar) we need to ask questions
and find the need of the investigator because if we come in with a pre prepared
memorized lesson they will
more often that not reject the gospel. Then Elder Jordan started asking me
questions like what kind of bread I like and if was allergic to any sort of
fruit or what kind of sandwich I was truly looking for in my life and made the
sandwich while he was talking to me...much more appealing. But the important
thing is that he can make a perfect sandwich...but if he does not invite me to
eat it I will never truly accept the sandwich...if we never invite them to be baptized
they will never do it and will never truly understand our purpose. Everything
according to the spirit.
Also we played basketball
today on the wooden court and I hurt my back a little. I was just jumping for a
rebound and "poom" something went in my back. Not quite sure what
happened yet because I am going to ice it and use icy hot and take ibuprofen
for a couple days to see if that takes care of it. But it hurts just like it did
when I hurt it Freshman year in basketball. Just though I would be honest and
let ya know about when I am sick and things.
Well....love ya...praying
for ya....until next week.
Love,
Elder Nelson
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