October 27, 2014
Area: Broadway 2 Central
Companion: Heath
This week was just full of miracles. We are
still working on building up the area, but on Friday we had interviews with
President Drake, where he told me to start praying more specifically to
have my righteous desires be brought forth in the area. I have been
doing that, and we started seeing results immediately! Heavenly Father is there, always, just waiting on us to ask/pray for the right things that will help us most, and he always delivers (ie. blesses us)!
20 October 2014
We
went out after P-Day, sadly getting out a little late, so we headed
straight to dinner with Mark, one of our members, where we ate quickly,
so we would have enough time to ride the 15 minutes to our appointment
with Suyapa and Jorge, the part-member family. We had scheduled a member to be with us, but he had to cancel. This whole time I was praying
that they would be home because we really needed/wanted to talk with
them. I was also praying that we would get there on time and know what
we needed to say. When we got there, well, they weren't home...
It
was already about 8:00 pm, but we wanted to stay near-by, just in case
they showed up. We noticed that one of their neighbor families was
outside cooking on their grill and having a good time, probably a family
party, so we decided to say hi and just talk with them a little. They
told us their names, Alma and Gumaro, and ended up inviting us to eat
with them and wouldn't take no for an answer, so we sat down and just
had a good normal conversation, that ended up turning to the topic of
religion. We started talking about what makes our church different, and
they seemed interested when we said that we know that God has called a
prophet to guide us in these days. We ended up talking to them about how
they can know for themselves, and about how the Book of Mormon is the
key to that. We gave them a Book of Mormon, invited them to read from
the introduction, and we asked them when we could come back. They told
us that Saturday is when they wouldn't have work, so it would be fine to come
then.
By the time we left it was already about
9:10, and as we were getting up to go, when Suyapa called us to see
where we went because our bikes were still outside their home. We
accidentally missed the call, but right when the phone stopped ringing,
we saw them getting out of their truck, so we called to them and talked
briefly. They invited us in, but we explained that it was late, so we
set up an appointment for Wednesday.
We were
so blessed to go there and find them not home. We found a new family, and we
still got to reschedule the appointment (which we were able to with them and teach the lesson that we had planned), but I realize that we wouldn't have
been able to meet Alma and Gumaro had the 'planned schedule' been fulfilled.
24 October 2014
Had interviews with President Drake, but they took a little longer than we
thought we would, so we were running late getting to our area. We had an
appointment set at 4:30 pm, but it was already 4:15 and we were barely
getting home (and we still had to change and go on the 30 minute bike
ride there). We left with faith that it would all go well, and we prayed
that we would be able to at least set another time to come back if we
weren't able to teach her then.
On the way out,
we were biking really fast and while riding, I remembered the scripture
that it is not right for God's elders (missionaries) to be moving
quickly while the people beside us are dying from unbelief. I realized
that we should still talk to people on the way, since there was no way for us
to be on time. So I repented and prayed that God would put some people
in our way that He has prepared for the gospel while we were riding. We
saw some people holding a garage sale and we pulled over and looked at
some of the stuff to make it less awkward, then we started talking to
them. They asked what we were going around doing and we obviously
answered that we were missionaries and how we bring a message to the
world that God has once again called a prophet to teach the truth. They
were interested, so we talked a little more about it and gave them cards
to receive the evidence that God has given of this event, The Book of
Mormon. One of them said that he knew this was from God and that God had
sent us to tell them these things (which really made us think that he
was a member), but he said that he would make sure they called the number
on the card to receive a free copy. After that, we thanked them for
their time and went on our way.
Soon after that
first encounter with people, we passed by these two guys that looked
like they were in their early twenties, and I felt like we should stop
and talk with them. I sadly passed by them, but I decided that it would be the right thing to do to go back to talk with them even if it seemed ackward for me. We went over and one
of them was gone, but we talked with the other. We told him that we were
missionaries and a little about our message, then he told us that he
was just visiting his cousin, who lives in this area, but he would be
willing to listen to missionaries. We ended up just giving him a card
for himself and one for his cousin, and he said he was going to call the
number on the card as well.
I
never realized how powerful prayer truly can be. President Drake had
said that as long as our will is in line with the will of God, whatever
we pray for will come to pass, but only if we act in a way to make it
come to pass. I really look forward to these next weeks and the success
that will come as we pray specifically for the people in our area.
I love you guys,
Elder Stanley Scott Dye
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