SO........This week was DIFFICULT!
but also GOOD!:)
So in short, this week we had to go
Urdaneta again to get some training for the missionaries that will be training
the New Missionaries, so I can know what I should be doing. While we were there I got to eat at KFC after
a very long time! It was DELICIOUS!:)
Any way other than that we had a
difficult week with the teaching. Almost every day the people we were supposed
to teach were always gone or investigators we thought were golden all of the sudden
didn't want to be taught anymore. So, we had some trials. But, on Saturday we
had a great planning session and had a great plan with lots of backup
activities from 1 until 9! I thought we were going to get like 7 lessons taught
in the day. So, we left the apartment and went to our first appointment.....Not
home even though she said she would be, so we thought well that’s a bummer. So we went to the backup we had planned. We
went to find a less active. Well we looked and she wasn't home either. This happened about 5 times in a row. I was
frustrated and then I thought there is always a reason for appointments
falling through. Like there is someone else we have to find or teach.
So I thought and then the name of this Barangay or kind of like neighborhood
thing popped into my head. So without
second guessing I was like “Elder, I haven't gone here in a long time. Want to
go check it out because it was 3 oclock and pretty much all of our appointments
were gone? So we got back on a bus. Went to the complete opposite side of our
area and went to the Mendoza compound. A compound is like an area of houses
where they are all related it would be like all of our family and extended
family living in an area about the size of Grandma Kathy and Grandpa Arlins’
property. The Branch President is one of the members there. So, we got talking
to them and started making some plans. And through the talking we just felt
like we need to start focusing more on Less Active members that are close to
the church and the area we were in at that time was very close to the church.
We taught a lesson then they fed us dinner. We haven't had a dinner appointment
in over a month so it was wonderfull!!!:)
Then, on our way out of that Barangay,
on our way home, we were walking and randomly the thought came into my head. Go
see how the Moreno Family is. The Moreno Family is a Less Active family that I
have only visited once before. Elder
Suaraz had never met them and had never been to the area we went to that day.
But anyway, ee went to their house. We
got there and their family was all there even the father who is not yet a
member and the first time I went wasn't there.
They said he is always gone. So, we got there and had a great lesson
about Temples.
The spirit totally prompted Elder
Suarez to begin the lesson with that because we had no idea what we were going
to share and after the prayer we waited a few seconds and then started talking
about Temples and Eternal Families.
The lesson was AWESOME! The father
is pretty hard headed and didn't really seem to be into it. I am not sure of everything
I said to him. At one point in the
lesson I felt like someone was speaking through me. All I know is that what I/Jesus
Christ/Heavenly Father/The Holy Ghost said was very bold and it made him pay
attention to us more and then Elder Suarez followed up on what I said. The
spirit was so strong!
The lesson was good and they
committed to go to church. Now only one of the daughters went to church but the
cool part was that the entire day was led by the spirit.
I know that we were supposed to go
where we went and teach who we taught! I am so grateful for the spirit and the
guidance in this work!!!:)
It is so true, what we know, and can NEVER
deny it!!!:)
The scriptures I want to share this
week are Omni 1:26 and 1 Nephi 4:6!:)
I love you MOM, DAD, KATIE, and MATTHEW!!!:)
Elder Ball
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