My new companion is awesome! Elder Dominguez is from the
Dominican Republic, and he is brand new in the mission. He only has 3
months in the mission, i am his second companion. And his trainer was my
friend Elder Spriggs. His accent is freaking legit. Its like a Jamaican
dude speaking spanish. Its awesome. But man this sector is going to be
an awesome area for him to be in in the beginning of his mission.
And i cant even imagine what he is thinking about
how strongly we are guided by the spirit here. Last night it was his
turn to pray before we went to bed and he said ´´God we are thankful
that we are being constantly guided by your hand to find the people
who are prepared for your gospel´´ But this last week has just been ridiculous about how many awesome people we are finding.
On the first day we got to work here it was awesome,
we were walking down the street, when we walk pass a big red house, and
we walk past it when i feel like i need to turn around so i turn around
and look at the house, then turn to my companion and say ´´Elder, God
wants us to knock this door´´ And so straight away we knock the door,
and a man answers and straight away says ´´Welcome to my home, Please,
come in´´ And we were both taken off guard because no one ever invited
us in the first time we knock their door. But we go in and they offer us
Soda, and we all start talking. And it turns out that he was a member
who was baptized at 11 years old but went inactive when we was about 17.
But now is in his 30s has a wife and 3 kids. And his wife isnt a
member. And oh my gosh she was so receptive. I could talk all day long
about them. But she wanted to come to church and to read to book of Mormon, and wanted to investigate more of the church. They were awesome
But we leave the house, and were just talking about
how awesome they were, when we took at our planners to see what our plan
was. And so we read the planner and i read the name out loud, and then
say. "I know that they are our plan right now but i feel like thats not
where we need to go right now. Lets walk over there" (pointing in the
opposite direction from where we were planning on going.)
And as we were walking i see a house of a less
active member that i know. And i say ´´Ok this is where we need to go´´
So we knock the door and they invite us in, And the less active member
was sitting there playing X Box So we go ever there and start talking
to him, when i see that he has a friend over. So i start talking to him
just to be polite, not to leave him out. When i ask the less active
member to search for his book of mormon because we wanted to share
something with him (3 nephi 18) And i give my book of mormon to his
friend, and invite him to read with us. And then as we were talking
about the Sacrament. I explain to his friend the covenant of baptism and
how when we take the Santa Cena we are renewing this convent that we
made.
And then i say ´´And even though at this moment you dont know much
about our church we want to invite you to be baptized so that you can
make these same covenants with God and enjoy the same blessings that we
talked about.´´ And the friend is sitting there and is thinking about it
and then starts nodding his head and says ´´Ya. I want to be baptized´´
And then i say ´´And we want to help you arrive at the point to where
you feel ready to be baptized. And we are preparing a baptism service
on the 8th of Feburary. and we want to keep sharing with you to help you
prepare to be baptized. So will you prepare to be baptized this 8th of
Feburary´´ And he is sitting there thinking for a second, and then
starts nodding his head again and says ´´Ya´´ And then i make a whole
bunch of promises and then get his phone number and stuff and then we
leave. And my companion was just in shock. And just starts staring at
me. And so i just say like ´´Welcome to the mission Elder´´
We had a ton of more incredible stories from this week too. It was awesome. But im out of time. Ill try to tell more
stories next week
Love you all keep me posted!
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