I am doing
really great!! Transfers were good! I am actually really happy about it. My new
companion is awesome and really motivated to work. We have been finding a lot
of new people to start teaching and it's just been really awesome.
On Tuesday,
we got up and went to the transfer site to change companions. Sister Passey
gave a really great talk on how being obedient allows us to be worthy of the
Spirit. After the meeting, I went on
splits for a little while and then we went to the transfer site, and I met
Hermana Flake and we were on our way. It was super fun! We went to go visit one of the less active
ladies in our branch who we had been inviting to fast to help her husband find
a new job. It was super awesome because we got there, and I asked her if she
was able to fast. She said yes and then went off on a story about how almost
immediately after she had fasted for that her husband was able to find work! It
was such an amazing miracle! Then we had dinner with our Branch President’s
wife which was good like always.
Wednesday we
had Zone meeting and did some training on keeping the Sabbath day holy and how
to teach people about that. It was really great because our Zone Leaders have
been trying to get us to speak in Spanish during all of our meetings. We haven't been so good at it, but all of us
were trying for the most part and I was able to answer a lot of questions in
Spanish. It was really funny because I am pretty sure Elder Gonzalez and Elder
Stidham didn't think I could say anything in Spanish. Usually, I had tried to
avoid speaking it in front of them, so when I would answer questions they would
get super excited when I said full sentences in Spanish.
Then we got a
lot of referrals for the English elders that night from knocking a trailer
park. There was this one really awesome lady who wasn't at all interested in us
beforehand, but we asked her if we could pray for her and she said of course
and then afterwards she asked us a bunch about the Book of Mormon. We were able to have a long discussion about
it. She said I wouldn't normally let
strangers pray for me, but you two have really good spirits and I can feel
that. It was a really cool experience. We set up an appointment for the elders
to come and give her a priesthood blessing the next day. We also met this other
teenage boy. It was a really neat
experience because you could tell he had been struggling with a lot, and we
were able to bare testimony of the Atonement and we could see his faith in
Christ increasing as we were speaking to him. It was awesome. On the way out of that trailer park, we saw
this boy sitting on the side of the road, and I felt prompted that we needed to
talk to him. We turned around and we talked
to him about the Book of Mormon, and he told us how he had some cousins that
had investigated and joined the church and how much they loved it. He was super interested so we set up an
appointment to see him the next day, but he lived in a different area so we had
to refer him to some other Spanish elders in our Zone! But that's ok because at
least God is trusting us enough to allow us the opportunity to plant seeds in
people!
Then Thursday
was awesome too. We did a little bit of knocking. We met some really
interesting people of different faiths. There was one boy who just radiated
light that we talked to. He was Muslim.
Just meeting someone with so much light in him makes me wish he could
have the fullness of the Gospel in his life too. We also were able to meet with
Ashley and her little brother (Ashley is the one with the baptism date for
next month)
Saturday was
the ground breaking for the temple, so we went to watch that at the stake
center. It was really awesome because President Uchtdorf was there for it along
with 2 members of the 70. They gave really good talks about how important it is
for us to remember that our bodies are temples and to have a ground breaking
for our hearts, to soften them and to change for the better. It was really
great!
Yesterday was
probably one of my favorite days, because we were finally able to get Ashley
and her family to come to church because it was the primary program. Then our
other investigator Naomi came with her dad who we are working on teaching as
well! It was really awesome and an
answer to our prayers.
.
An update on
the 18 year old boy. When we contacted him, Hermana Budge wanted to give him to
the English elders because he spoke English. I had a feeling that we needed to hold on to
his record and try him again, so I just didn't send the information. Then
yesterday we went to go find him, but the address he gave us was wrong or we
weren't listening right and turns out he doesn't even live in that apartment
complex. He hangs out around there a
lot, so we knocked on the door and the people told us he doesn't live here, but
pointed us to his aunt’s apartment where he goes sometimes. She answered the
door and wasn't very happy to talk to us. She kept telling us she was Catholic
and so was he so they weren't interested. Then Hermana Flake offered to pray
for them and the aunt’s heart started to soften, so we said that we could leave
our number for him so we gave her one of our Jesus cards with our number on the
back. The Hispanic Catholics love
pictures of Jesus, so she thought it was the prettiest thing in the world. We left 2 other ones just for her and she
asked us which church we were from. We
explained about how we are LDS and she said she never heard of it, but she
recognized Mormons and so I explained to her what the Book of Mormon was and
you could see her countenance change. We were able to leave her with 2 Book of
Mormons one is English that she was going to give her nephew and one is Spanish
for her.
Anyways
that's about it for this week.
Thanks for
sending the pictures at the Fort Collins temple. It looks gorgeous!
Love,
Hermana
Burgoyne
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