July 5, 2015
Area: Baytown
Companion: Hepworth
Hey guys,
This last week was a little difficult, but we pushed through and tried
to make the best of it. We sadly weren't able to meet with many of our
investigators until Wednesday evening or Thursday. Andrea and Ulises
weren't available because they went to Mexico for vacation until the
11th, Mario was busy with work and we were continually trying to get in
with him, and Hermana Galvez usually has us come over on Wednesday, but
she wasn't going to be available. We still saw many miracles regardless
of the fact that we had those struggles.
Instead of doing the normal Hour of Power and just knocking, we had the
feeling that we needed to visit Mario, so we said a prayer went up and
knocked the door, no answer, we knocked again, no answer, and again, no
answer. We started walking back to the car to go to the place where we
originally determined as our Hour of Power spot for last week, but then
he opened the door and called out to us. We had a really amazing lesson
with Mario in which he confirmed the baptismal date for July 25th.
We expressed the importance of him coming to church and reading and
praying, and he decided that he was going to make church a priority.
We were then able to get in with him on Saturday and speak with him
about church and read with him because he sadly didn't read, but we
definitely saw a difference in him after that lesson during the Hour of
Power. He sadly got called into work on Sunday, but he called us in the
morning saying that we could come over today (Monday). We have plans to
finally get a member over with us, which has been nearly impossible due
to our inability to set up appointments with Mario.
We also saw some incredible progress with an 18 year old less active
that we have been working with, Ricardo, and he finally came back to
church! Last week we felt like we needed to give him a copy of Preach My
Gospel to help him study the scriptures better, which we did, but sadly
he hasn't studied. We can't really blame him though, his mom took away
his glasses with the hope that it would prevent him going out and
getting into bad things, which ironically, has prevented him from doing
the good things instead...oh well. We met with him a few times and he
got his siblings to go to Mutual this week, then he came to church and
we were able to convince him to go into the youth class instead of
Gospel Principles, so he would actually learn something that we weren't
already teaching him. We talked with him after church and he suddenly
got his fire back! He is really excited for everything again. He just needs to realize that the excitement he feels is because of the spirit that can finally dwell with him. I am super excited for him!
We have seen progress in some other people as well, but it has just been
a bit slower than with Mario, Hermana Galvez, Ricardo, and Andrea and
Ulises. We also saw a ton of finding miracles over the weekend, we were
surprised by how nice people were on July 4th. They were all willing to
talk a little, but they were almost all busy preparing for family
gatherings and wouldn't sit down and talk. We were however able to set up quite a
few appointments for this week to teach all of these people.
I love you,
Elder Stanley Scott Dye
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