My dearest friends and family,
Looks like Christmas came early this
week! HA I know you all love my letters........ but seriously, PDay is today,
and I forgot to tell y'all last week. Kindly excuse the air-headedness.
It has been a wonderful week of miracles,
and despite having to leave a bunch of investigators last month, the prospects
for THIS month are looking good. We’ve got several families in which the
parents are gonna get married, and the new rules regarding church-attendance
have allowed us to continue setting baptismal dates for May 2017. WOOHOO!
LECCIÓN DE LA SEMANA: Specific
prayers are the BOMB DOT COM. I remember when Presidente Tenorio of the CCM
gave a talk about specific prayers, but this week, as E. Coello and I watched
The District (five-star missionary programming), I was reminded how important
it is to pray for each of our investigators, specifically. We made it a goal to
do so, and also to ask God for help in achieving each and every one of our
daily tasks.
Yesterday, we asked God to guide us
to one person (outside of pre-set appointments) that would be ready and
desirous to receive the Gospel. That evening, a man flagged us down from his
taco-stand and began talking at us excitedly. He presented himself as Jonathan
Guzman. He told us that his brothers and sisters are members of the church, and
for the longest time he tried to resist, but that his curiosity had led him to
speak to us. "Come and visit me! Please!" he begged.
We arrived at his address, annnd he
wasn’t home when we got there, but his NEIGHBOR welcomed us into her house, and
we began to teach. She told us that she had been praying to God that he would
send her someone to invite her to church. She accepted a baptismal date and
went to the Friday-night Ward activities THAT SAME EVENING. Her name is Ligia,
and she is wonderful.
Just after we got done with Ligia,
Jonathan arrived, and he welcomed us into his house. We didn’t have time for a
lesson, but he told us quickly that he had already finished the pamphlet we
gave him and that he wants to attend church. We gifted him a Book of Mormon and
set another appointment, promising to pass by on Sunday with a member to help
him get to the church building.
It works, guys. We asked God for one
person, and he blessed us with two who are absolutely dying to feel the light
of the Gospel in their lives. He’ll help you, too, as you seek to align your
desires with His will and demonstrate the faith to ask.
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We got the news about the
transfers, and GUESS WHAT??? I’M STAYYYIINNNGGG!!! WOOOHOOOOO!! I figured
President would keep us here, considering the fact that I’m training and all,
and to be honest, I’m super happy to continue in Palmas. These people are
wonderful, and I’m super excited to work with my friends and family here.
I had exchanges with Elder
Jimenez, my District Leader, and ALL of our appointments fell through! They say
that there’s an "exchanges curse" in this mission, and so far, I
haven’t seen any evidence to the contrary. Nevertheless, we WERE able to find
several potential investigators and set appointments with them.
- We found a guy who studied at
Harvard! It surprised me when he said so. He addressed us really formally and
in an overly-dramatic voice, and began to tell tales of the Boston campus. It
was funny.
- We got caught in a storm on our
way to an appointment! It was sunny and hot, but all of the sudden the clouds
came, and it began to pour BUCKETS. Of course, having predicted a nice,
oven-sort of day, I hadn’t brought my umbrella.... we got to the house of the
investigator soaking wet; the sister who answered the door looked surprised and
said, "hold on just a minute!" and disappeared back into her
house.................. "ok, we’ll be right here...." we said. Fun
stuff.
- Ana Camas is progressing again! We
had to leave her for a while because she needed to get married and didn’t
really want to, but her spouse stopped us in the street on Thursday to ask us
about the details of the marriage documents. We called our people, and our
people called their people, and eventually we were able to get the hermano the
information he needed. Looks like they’re gonna get hitched!
That’ll be all for this week, folks!
Thanks for being such a support to me and my family! I know that God lives and
that He’ll answer your specific prayers with specific replies sa you exercise
faith in Him!
Next week I WON’T have PDay, so it’s
goodbye until the 15th of May! That rhymed. *Mic-drop*
Elder Carson
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When you get drenched for serving the Lord.
#worthit
I think my companion took this photo because he
admires my shoulder-bag?
THE POWERFUL ELDERS OF PALMAS
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