As missionaries we are always wearing white shirts, ties and slacks. On monday we went and visited some members that had some really cute kids and one of the kids kept asking us about what we as missionaries wear when we sleep. and we told him that we wear normal clothes and he liked that but then he started asking his dad. "dad, what do the missionaries wear when they are inside, inside clothes, like me?" and he said "no they wear church clothes." Well he was not satisfied because when he is inside he wears inside clothes, when he is leaving the house he wears his clothes for when he leaves the house and he only wears his church clothing when he goes to church. He finally he had to accept that as missionaries its normal that we always wear church clothes.
On tuesday we got to teach Nadia who is a new investigator that went to church and is GOLDEN she is looking for change in her life and is wanting to come unto Christ. We actually didnt find her but she went to church with her member friend and was already talking about baptism. When we were teaching we coould tell that she has been going through a lot of hard things because when we asked her about what the role of Christ is in her life and she could barely talk about it and tears were visible. I knew that it was the perfect moment to invite her to be baptized. I look over at Elder Arias to have him be the one to invite her but we had a member in between us and were all sitting in this tight cramped place. However i didnt want to take the opportunity away from him to be able to invite her to be baptized so i leaned forward and mouthed "BAPTISM" I did not know if he got the message or not so i watched him and i saw that he pulled out a Book of Mormon and he took out his notebook where he has the invitation memorized and he went and read off the invitation too her. It was awesome i was so proud of him and we talked about it after he was like i dont think she knew i read it hahaha he is so funny! I love him
I always love those days when our plans just get ruined and then it makes you kind of get out of whatever you are doing or wherever you are and then always, always you are guided somewhere you need to be and that is exactly what happened on wednesday. we were able to find a part member family.
On Thursday we went back to Camille and she is someone that we found a while ago that had so many questions about the Book of Mormon. We finally got a chance to see her again with members and in the middle of our lesson she said wait can i share something...and then she told everything! It was awesome because she opened up about how before she was super close to God but then over time as she got older things changed and she hasnt found a place where she feels comfortable and it was perfect because the spirit was there and we were able to testify and having the members there i know really helped create the environment for the spirit to be able to abide.
We are teaching this new investigator named Annie and we had really good lessons but this week she was not able to go to church this week but we had the chance to meet her family and they were really interseted in the message and wanted to know if it was true. So we invited them to come to church. Well they said they would go to church if annie did. We were sad to find out that Annie was not going to be able to make it but on sunday morning we were at church and Annie had talked to them and they came to church without her! Crazy! we were so happy to see them and they seemed like they really enjoyed church. So did Nadia we are so excited that Nadia will be getting baptized on May 26th! Miracles! We just got in the area and we see that God is blessing in more than one way!
I love sharing the Gospel, this work and serving God!
I hope you all have a great week!
I love you all!
Elder Wright
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