ok first funny story: we teach english in a school nearby and I shared the scripture wickedness never was happiness and we explained that wickedness was not listening to the teacher, being mean to other kids, cheating, and so on. So after we had shared the message and were just playing games we hear one of the kids yelling ¨wickedness! wickedness!¨ at a kid who wasnt paying attention haha and so everytime that someone wasnt doing what they were supposed to the other kids would yell wickedness! oopps:)
ok so we do things called LPE which are just contacts and our goal is now 120 lpes every week, which is a lot. President Carmack has given us a lot of ways to make them effective and help us find new investigators and so this week we put it to the test! We almost never introduce ourselves as missionaries, always representatives of Jesus Christ.
Then we ask them a question- Did you know Christ came to the Americas?
Did you know theres a place in Panama where families can be sealed together for eternity?
But my favorite is this- if you had 2 minutes to talk with God, what would you ask Him? And then we use the Book of Mormon to answer their question. It really tests our knowledge of the scriptures and it shows people right away that the BoM contains the fullness of the gospel and the answer to all of our questions! We reached the goal of 120 this week and we found a ton of new investigators.
The biggest miracle this week was yesterday at church. We were waiting for a whole bunch of investigators and nobody that we were expecting showed up. But Hermano C and Hermana A did! They had kind of frozen and there was a lot of complications with work and marriage and bla bla bla so we had stopped visiting them, but they came to church! After church we had a lesson with just her and it was good, like really good. She had never officially accepted a baptismal date, only that they would get married, so I wasnt sure if it would be a good idea to invite her right away but after we shared our lesson about the Gospel of Jesus Christ and covenants I had one of the strongest promptings Ive ever recieved that I needed to invite her to be baptized. Before I even finished the question she was shaking her head yes! We are praying there wont be too many more complications (aka satan) and that everything can go smoothly fro them to get married and baptized!
We found a few more couples this week and in total we have 5 couples that are progressing and almost ready for baptism....solo les falta matrimony! But by my calculations if they all get married this month I can come back next thanksgiving and spend a whole week in temple sealings:)
It rained, it was hot, we found a lot of bugs, we taught with the Spirit, we reached a ton of goals, we worked hard, saw a lot of miracles, and we are so so so happy to be representatives of Jesus Christ!
have a good week familia!
Hna Smith
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