January 27, 2015
Area: Trinity River
Companion: Gamez
This week was great! We
met almost every one of our goals! It is a great feeling to be able to
humble ourselves and to push forward with faith. We would have met our
member present goal of 5 if the members didn't have to cancel on us. We
saw so much help from the Lord and the branch this week! Last week I
mentioned how the branch came up with their Branch Mission Goal of 15
baptisms and they are willing to do what it takes to achieve it. We
could tell this from all the help we received and from their excitement and
desire for the work. In a few weeks they will have 2 of their 15
baptisms achieved because the Chavez family set a date for their
marriage! They decided to get married on the 6th of February, and
President Escobar and his wife are getting them the paperwork and
helping them fill it out. The branch is so excited! They are already
making plans for a little reception that they are going to throw for the
Chavez family as well as making a cake for them! I am so happy, I don't
know how to express it, I just know this family will be great! This
Monday they mentioned to the Escobars', during the lesson, that they haven't
met the bishop yet, so President Escobar explained that a big
congregation is a ward and has a bishop, but a small one like ours is a
branch and has the branch president. They responded so well! They just
said, "Well, we're going to join and help it get bigger then!"
That
is the biggest progress that was made this week, but we had the
opportunity to teach Evangelina a couple of this this week. She had her daughters there
one of the times, so we included them in the lesson, but the second time
we taught it was just her and it went really well! We
taught her the restoration and about the Book of Mormon, and when we
shared a scripture with her, she continued reading further after reading
the one we shared, and she decided to read aloud one of the scriptures.
She said she really liked it, it was 2 Nephi 25:29 and it reads:
"And
now behold, I say unto you that the right way is to believe in Christ,
and deny him not; and Christ is the Holy One of Israel; wherefore ye
must bow down before him, and worship him with all your might, mind, and
strength, and your whole soul; and if ye do this ye shall in nowise be
cast out."
We really see her potential and she
really desires to come to church and continue forward in the gospel
because she feels that it is true. Sadly, she will be in Mexico for
the next 2 weeks, but she said she would talk with her father while she
is there and ask him if the missionaries can come and teach him as well,
and if he says yes, we will send his information as a referral to the
missionaries over there. I have no doubt that she will be baptized as
well when she gets home from Mexico.
Other than
our work with them, we worked with some of the less-active members, and
one family actually let their nonmember daughter come to church even
though they couldn't make it. We have been able to include the branch president's son, Aaron, to work with a less-active young man, Kenny. We have made some good progress. We have
plans to involve Aaron in the visits whenever it is possible.
I love this area so much!
I
hope you all have a great week and enjoy the 60 degree weather we are
having, oh wait, that is us in Texas, well, I hope you enjoy the weather
whatever it may be!
Elder Stanley Scott Dye
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