We were walking around looking for another contact we had received. We knew the general area, and were just going house to house looking for them (funny story- one time, we got to a house, and the lady immediately left and said "I'm Jehovah's Witness, I don't want to talk with you, I'm very happy in my own religion." That's fine, whatever. But I asked "Thats fine. We're looking for Eduardo and Mara." She responded with ´´YOU'RE looking for Eduardo and Mara, but I'M looking for Jehovah!" ... and then never told us where they lived.... Sometimes, people just make it so hard for us to love them).
Anyway, we talked with this pretty cool dude. His name is Hugo. He has a mustache. So immediately we wanted to talk with him. He said we should pass by later. So we did. Last week. It was a pretty great lesson. We went with a member who lives close by, and we basically just talked about family. Great. We left the Restoration pamphlet to read.
We went back. They read up until Christ's ministry. Great. By the way, we left with a young man from the ward this lesson, and we let HIM explain the Joseph Smith story. Super powerful. It was awesome. We left soon after.
We went back a couple days later. Saturday. With another member. And she immediately started telling us that she had recently left her church. She didn't feel comfortable. And started praying to find another church to go to, and that someone would come to explain the gospel to them. The next day, we showed up to her house after talking with Hugo. She also said that their family had started talking about the Restoration right after they left, and they talked about how it was an answer to their prayers and that it was, indeed, from God.
It was a great experience. I love it. They didn't come to church yesterday, though. They thought that the meetings started at 9 PM instead of 9 AM... poop.
Another uplifting story...
We were walking down the street going to an investigators house. I saw a woman sitting on her porch with her kid. As we walked past, I heard myself reading out loud in Preach My Gospel "talk with everyone." ... crap.... so I could only bear the guilt for about 10 steps, then I told Elder Christiansen that we had to turn back. ]We went and taught her and her husband about the Book of Mormon. Then left
We went back on Friday. She said that She had moved there recently. She's Lutheran, but the chapel was really far away. She went with her husband to an evangelical church, and left feeling more confused. so she said that she prayed and started reading the bible. She said that she was praying so that she would know the correct church to go to. 2 days later, we walked past their house, and I felt the impression that we had to talk with her. We taught her about the restoration, and she said that she has doubts, but she's willing to see whats up.
It was a great week. We just had interviews with president LaPierre. It was sad because its the last interview that ill have with him... He's such an inspired man, its crazy.
Elder Christensen
Turns out, my memory card didn't work... so I had to use a new one...
Here's me and Elder Christiansen showing some school pride!
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