Bon dia per tots!
First off: Bless my heart for sending so many
emails last week, transfers totally got me scatterbrained, my apologies for
taking up your inboxes just a cry for attention I guess ;) Second off: I am
just loving life right now. Seriously I am so so happy. I hope all of you are
too. So I'll try to keep my email a little more focused this time around just
know there were a lot of amazing things that happened this week but the things
I HAVE to tell you about are: Harry, Interviews, and our crazy Saturday.
Harry (from Ghana): So Hermana Swenson and I
taught him earlier on in the week, we talked about baptism and he really had a
problem with the idea of being baptized a second time (he was baptized catholic
as a baby) we set a baptismal date and told him that before that date we would
do our part by teaching him everything he needed to know and if he did his part
of reading, praying, and coming to church we need he would receive his answer.
He accepted but we were a little worried. A couple days later we taught him
again this time along with teaching about the necessary authority of baptism
like we did last time we talked about the gospel of Jesus Christ (faith,
repentance, baptism, Holy Ghost, and endure to the end) and as we talked about
baptism we talked about how this time it is completely his choice and it will
be a day he will remember for the rest of his life and he will feel completely
clean. We normally don't emphasize that a lot because we don't want to offend
people but were totally guided by the Spirit and it made sense to him and the
lesson ended with him saying that he really wanted to be baptized now, that he
truly felt everything we were saying was true, and that he would be ready at 8:30 sunday morning for us to go with him to
church which before he really didn't want to do because it's so far away. Sunday we
went with him and he absolutely loved it. Kofi was great at fellowshipping him
and afterwards we taught Kofi, Josef, and Harry a lesson. Josef asked some
difficult questions but Harry kept asking if he could answer them and he did
amazing! He seemed more like a member than an investigator. He was exactly what
Josef needed. And then we asked Kofi how he feels now that he is baptized and
he said that he is happier than he has ever been and that he has completely
changed his life. Harry asked him if he truly felt he had the Spirit of God
with him and Kofi said yes, that as long as he is doing what is right he can
feel it and he never wants to lose it. It was exactly what Harry needed. Funny
sidenote: Harry got a text during sacrament meeting from a friend that said
"LOL since when did you start going to church." He changed so much in
just this week and it's amazing!
Sorry I got carried away, I'll try to keep
these next two short
Interviews: Wow, soooo powerful. President
Pace is incredible! We were originally only supposed to talk for 10 minutes but
we got carried away and ended up talking for about 35! He always has such great
advice and is so encouraging. I am so lucky to have a President where he genuinely
loves every single missionary here and he has a way of making every one of us
feel like we are the best thing that ever happened to this mission.
Our Crazy Saturday: In the simplest terms ever: Saturday= great lesson with Harry +
three people that contacted us (asking for one of our cards) + an indian man
taking us to get hot chocolate as we taught him about the Book of Mormon +
doorway lesson with a girl from Barcelona + tear filled lesson with a family on
the street + a couple of super interested bench contacts + great lesson with
Patti y Mireia + running into a metro contact from a week ago who really needed
someone to talk to + a race with the elders to see who could get the most phone
numbers in the last 30 minutes before we had to be in piso when our last cita
fired (we won 6-1 no worries, they bought us KFC today for the prize) + a total
of 10 phone numbers in one day = an amazing day to be a missionary.
Les quiero un montón! Gracias por todo el
apoyo!
Hermana Tuttle
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