March 31, 2014
Area: Humble, Tx
Companion: Owens
So it sounds like all of you had a great week this week,
and I am glad to say that we did too! We had a ton of miracles in our
area again, and I love serving here. By far, there was one miracle that
stuck out from the rest, and it happened on Friday.
On Friday, we were trying some people, but nobody was
home, and it was about 8pm, so we parked the car and tried to think of
what we could do... While we were thinking, I pulled out my planner to
see which potential we could try at that time. I saw a couple of name
referrals that live in a trailer park, and instantly I thought of a guy
named Javier that lives there too. We had found him a few weeks ago, but
we couldn't ever find him again because he has no set schedule at work
and he doesn't have a phone. I said that we should try him, so we drove
over and he was actually home! When we knocked at his door, he seemed
excited to see us and invited us in to his home (which was only 1 room
that was 1/3 of the trailer..). We started talking to him about the
restoration and while we were talking about something, he opened up to
us and he told us how he is addicted to drugs and he lost his family and
how a ton of crap has happened in his life. He told us about how he has
tried to quit and tried to change his life so many times, and before he
had been on his way to church for the first time in a while, and he met
a really good-looking girl on the way in and instead of going in, they
went away and lived together for 2 years...she had drug problems too, so
it didn't help him at all. When we ran into him, the first time, he
said it was God sending him a way out, and this time we came right
before he was about to leave to use someone's phone to call a guy for
more drugs. I feel like God told me that we needed to go there to help
prevent him from doing that, and to help him feel His love. I felt
prompted to ask him if he wanted to change and that I believe that we
were sent to free him from his trap of drugs. When I invited him to be
baptized, he accepted while nearly being in tears for like the 2nd or
3rd time that lesson.
It is incredible how God prepares people for us and
how he prepares the way for them to change and grow! Javier told us that
this Sunday was most-likely going to be one of the last Sundays he will
have to work! :D
One of the saddest happenings this week was also on
Friday, when one of our investigators, Miguel, told us that he got an
answer from God that he should tell us that we should take our time to
teach people who will change... Indicating that he wasn't ready to do
what we asked. He told us that he was going to keep reading and praying,
and maybe someday we will get a call from him saying he's ready or
we'll see him at church... At first I felt like the missionaries from
the district video, when their investigator, Jinx, said basically the
same things, and before leaving, I asked Miguel if he felt like he did everything that
he could to get an answer, and when he said he did, I told him that
everything we invite him to do is to help him and that the one thing he
hasn't done is attending church. I promised him that if he would come to
church and pray to know the truth, he would get his answer there, but
he told me that he wasn't going to come this week and that we might see
him there sometime... He just wasn't willing to see that there was more
to do.
Even though this week had ups and downs, I felt like
it was a great week overall and I could see the Lord's love and
blessings each day.
I love you guys,
Elder Stanley Scott Dye
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