Well just to
answer some of the questions from Mom. I am still close to Tampico,
although we have to cross the River Panaco to get here and we are
actually in a different state here, we are in Vera Cruz. I get along
really well with Elder Escobar and we try to get a lot done. We are in a
branch and well there are a bunch of members but most of them are
inactive, you could say the branch is kinda struggling but we are doing
what we can, we are going to have an activity this Friday and we will
see how that goes. Elder Escobar has been out the same amount of time I
have left and in case you didn't realize... I have been a missionary for
6 months now! It is so crazy right? I only have a year and a half left
to serve the Lord like this, it is just flying by! Well for me at
least... we are pretty close to other missionaries because there are 4
here in the branch so we see them a lot.
Well I am going to tell y'all about Giovani :) He is an
investigator that they had before I got here and he went to the church
and stuff several times but he never accepted a bautismal date because
he still hadn't received an answer and he doesn't want to mess around
with God and just go with whatever church you know? He is like 19 I
think and is very serious about stuff related to God. Well we were
talking to him and well teaching him of course and we were teaching
about the priesthood and stuff like that. He was going to a baptist
church before I think and was baptized with them and well he was telling
us about how he was talking to some of the people from his church and
they were talking about Los Mormones and were saying stuff that wasn't
true or whatever and he totally defended our beliefs and what we teach
and I thought that was pretty cool. and well, since we were talking
about the priesthood I asked him, "do you believe that Joseph Smith
received the proper authority of God and that we have that authority in
this church?" and he said "From what I have seen... yes" so then we
asked if he would follow the example of Jesus Christ and be baptized and
he accepted and was excited about it so that was pretty awesome. We are
pretty sure he is going to get baptized and be a strong member of the
branch so we are pretty excited :)
Well that was the cool experience for the week :) I
just want to let you know that it is super hot here :) we recently
started the 40 hottest days of the year here and like three days ago
some guy died from the heat in Tampico just to give you all a taste of
how hot it is, I don't know what degree it gets to but the sun with the
heat and the humidity is just killer... But don't worry, we will make it
just fine :) I love you all and here are some pics :)
-Elder Sampson
No comments:
Post a Comment