Anyways, this last
week was good by way of having lessons and stuff but nobody showed up to
church with us other than a new family that is super great!!! The
only thing that kills me about them is that... they live in a different
area... and so... we won't be able to baptize them and we have to pass
the teaching off to some other elders... funny story about finding
them... :) we got a message from the mission offices,"NEW REFERENCE" so
we were thinking, "well that's cool let's go find 'em :)" so we go to
the address and..... it's a bar... ha ha how funny, pulling practical
jokes on the missionaries... anyways... REFERENCIA contactada, bien
hecho elderes! That was like 2 and a half weeks ago. Then one night we
get a call from the offices. "Hey we have a reference for you guys,"
"That's great! who is it?" "M__ R___" "a poco... ya contactamos
esa referencia, es un bar." "en serio?" "sí....." " pues marquele! aquí
está su numero" so we call him up and ask him where he lives. Turns
out he works in front of the bar in a car wash and it actually has the
same address as the bar, you've gotta love the organization in Mexico,
it's great :)
So we go and talk to him and find out that he has a friend
that lives in Utah right now that invited him to attend the ward where
he lives. He tells us, "well I'm going to go with you on Sunday and
bring my whole family" YES!!! it all sounds great when they say that
but sometimes there is a little doubt, I know I need to have a little
more faith, its just that because I have heard that a whole lot but I hardly
ever see it:/ and then on Sunday... we were there in the Chapel and
all of the sudden I see some movement of the members by the doors...
and.... They walked in!!!! It was so cool! I just felt good :) but that
is also what kills me... they are going to go to a different ward and we
won't be able to teach them because they actually live one street away
from our area, it's just that the brother happens to work in our area...
I know it shouldn't affect me very much because they will still be
learning about our Savior and progressing espiritually as a family... I
just wanted to be there with them helping them along... but what can ya
do? nada. I am really excited for them :) and we will just have to find
other families to teach.
Well that's an experience that we had this last
week :) Another that we had with J___ , he didn't go to
church but... we did notice a little change in him from the last time we
talked... he didn't mention his work :) He is always complaining and
doubting the church because when he got baptized he thought he would
have a lot of work and that the Lord was going to bless him in that way
but that didn't happen so he doubts that it is all true, but what
happened this time was that he didn't even mention it once! It's a good
sign I think :) we will see how it goes for him this week.
Well I don't have much more time so I'll just wrap it up but... I love you all and I hope you have a great week!
-Elder Sampson
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