This week, we did something a little different. Saturday morning, we just decided to animate the zone a little, and we sent a message telling them to invite as many people as they could to church the next day, and then we'd see how many we could do as a zone. We did 138 invitations. Pretty good.
Well, the most exciting one happened at about 8:30 at night. We just had a few plans fall through, and decided to go house to house, with the purpose of inviting, not really having a lesson. In one house, we learned that the lady is from Asuncion, and that her niece got married in the temple last week. Wow! Thats pretty cool. We didn't share anything, but w'ell go back. We went to their next door neighbors, and some old guy opened the door, and smiled, and ran up to the gate, opened it, and said "come in!"
Well, we had just walked in on 2 old guys just sitting around the coffee table, chatting. They lived in a very nice house for Paraguay. One of them told us "my brother is the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints!" Wow. I thought this guy was smoking something. And I was even less convinced when he said his name. Robert Heyn. Nope. I definitely don't know him. Well I still wasn't sure, but he showed us pictures, he lives in Utah, and even this guy had gone to visit him once, and knew the temple, and went to Park City. Okay... maybe a little more legit. We had a very solid lesson about the Book of Mormon. They're both retired, and it's hard for them to learn, but they're both currently not going to church and they love reading. So I've got some hope. Robert Heyn's brother lives in Asuncion, and was only visiting for Saturday, and our new friend was going to take him back home. So they declined our invitation, but they said that in the future they will attend again.
I just barely looked up Robert Heyn, and, yes, he DOES exist. I contacted his brother!
Another great experience was that the family Roman passed their baptismal interview. They travelled to Asuncion yesterday, and promised that they'd attend there. But they're very excited, and should be baptized on Saturday. They are two very successful people that love reading the book of Mormon and should contribute to the church a lot here in Rama 6.
Another great experience from the invitation experiment came from a man that we already knew. A few weeks ago, I bought a pair of cleats so that I could run sprints at the park. It's the greatest. Anyway, on Saturday, we walked passed the shoe store, and saw the guy in there, and decided to invite him to Church. He's active in the Evangelical Church. But he said, "ask my wife! If she says yes, then well go." so we asked his wife.
First thing that comes out of her mouth, "what is different about your church from the other churches?" GREAT question! So we almost had lesson one right there. We left her with a Book of Mormon, and she said that she is very interested, and the Spirit was strong, and it was awesome. They're 23 and 24. They have 2 kids, and got MARRIED 5 years ago. They will contribute to the church a lot once they're baptized.
We had consejo this week. I had to stand up the whole night in the bus on the 6 hour red eye again. Love it.
Elder Christensen
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