This week has been interesting. I have was super sick still for a couple days last week to the point where we couldn't go out. We had to stay inside for a couple of days so that I could overcome this crazy persistent cold. I was getting really frustrated with myself, I was mad that I did not take care of this problem sooner, like at the MTC, because I have had a stuffy nose since I was there, so that I did not have to waste so much time inside when I could have been out teaching our investigators. I had these concerns, but my mind set changed on Monday because I got a blessing. Anziano Perry offered it. It was perfect. It was so wonderful because he said exactly what I needed to hear and he did not even know my frustrations, that blessing really was from the Lord! In the blessing he said how even though I have not been able to go out and work I wasn't wasting time for my testimony was growing stronger through study and a prayer. It is true because I have my testimony has grown stonger in these days of my tribulation.
Things are really picking up here. We have a new investigator, he was taking the lessons last year, but stopped because he just was not interested, but know he is wanting more than ever to learn about the gospel and he said that he wants to get baptized. It will be hard to set a date with him because he has some legal problems. He is still married but lives with another woman and has kids with her, plus he is on house arrest until The first week of April. I have tons of hope for him, just in the time I have been here I have seen a huge change, he went from avoiding us completely to being the one in his family to really contribute to the lessons.
We were given an assignment to write a short paper on charity from our mission president. I will send it to you today after I finish it. I love charity!:)
Yesterday I was the happiest I have ever been. I know why it was too, it was because I focused my all my study and thoughts on the people here and how I can help them instead of worrying about myself. I am starting to understand what president Hinkley meant when he said forget yourself and go to work. We had a lesson with Rosa again, finally (we wrote her number down wrong, so it took forever to re contact her). She was so nice, she made us risotto and talked to us about doing service for others. We were in the middle of doing the first lesson about the restoration when both Sorella Johnson and I felt that we should instead talk about something else with her. It is interesting how the spirit prompts us to teach things that we did not plan for. Rosa left for a second to get the phone, so Sorella Johnson and I had some time to talk, it was amazing because we both said she needs something else, we opened our scriptures, I turned to Alma 32 and she turned to Ether 12, we saw each others scriptures and smiled, because without even saying it we knew we needed to talk about faith. Those chapters are about faith and different aspects of it.
I love you all so much, I hope you have the best conference weekend (we are going to the branch president's house to watch just the morning sessions, since it is too late to watch the other ones). We are so blessed to have a prophet, he knows from the Lord how to help us, so listen up:)
Love you tons!
Love,
Sorella Comollo
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