Hello Everyone!
This week was an interesting week and not a whole lot happened but I'll share the most important parts.
We
worked a lot with Mark this week trying to get him married so he could
be baptized this week. Things didn't end up going through. When he
talked to his "wife" about getting married she told him that she wasn't
going to marry him until he got her a ring. He was a little
disappointed that he couldn't be baptized but was excited for one day
down the road when he could. However, missionaries aren't nearly that
patient, especially when they have such a little time to make a
difference in people's lives. We asked him to pray about if he still
needed to get baptized. This first time he got a weird answer that he
wasn't comfortable about because he felt like it wasn't an answer that
came from God (which he was right about because it was really negative).
We tried to get him to pray with us again the next night but he felt
like a lot of bad spirits were keeping him from being able to do it so
we helped calm him down and he committed to do it again that night. The
answer he got the next night was better and we were able to help him recognize the spirit and the
promptings it was giving. The big thing that we are working on now is to be able to talk to his wife so we can help her understand why
they need to get married. They're "anniversary" was this past weekend
so they were going out and Mark was going to sit her down and have her
watch the Restoration DVD and then try to talk to her. We were letting him get up for church and over there
completely on his own, but he didn't show up so we'll have to figure out
what happened and get him married and baptized by the end of this
month. More to come on Mark. He's awesome but he needs lots of support
to make it sooner rather than later to this step.
This week Elder Gurr came down
from the mission office to do exchanges with us and other Elders
in the zone. What we do on these exchanges is we do quick "team ups"
with most of the companionships in the zone. We meet up with the
companionship, the AP goes with new missionary/younger companion and we
go with the other missionary. They are supposed to set up as many
appointments as they can and we go with them and make the time we have
with them as spiritual and motivating as possible to help the
missionaries learn and get to know them better. We went on 6 exchanges
throughout the day and it was amazing to see the work that was done in
just an hour or two. At the very beginning of the day we found a girl
name Sabryna who was supposed to get baptized that weekend but the
missionaries hadn't been able to get in touch with her for about 2
weeks. We found her, recommitted her for baptism in October, and put
the fire back in her that had been lost for a little while. Later in
the day we found a few new investigators, invited them to baptism, and
taught some really good lessons. My favorite part of the day was when
we were able to split with the Spanish missionaries and I got to speak
Spanish again! We taught a few people, and committed an
investigator named Maria to be baptized on November 16th.
It was a lot of fun that day.
Those days are the most draining
physically because you have to be on your A+ game for every minute of
the day to lift and inspire the missionaries you're with. Normally on a
typical day of missionary work you will teach 2-3 lessons and maybe find
a new person to teach and then have lots of other contacts and
missionary activities during the day. When we totaled up all that we
had done, we taught 9 lessons, got a few referrals, added 3 new
investigators, visited 4 less actives, and committed 2 people to baptism
on specific dates. It was an amazing day and filled with miracles.
It was a great opportunity to
be able to help so many missionaries.
This Sunday
was probably one of my favorite Sundays of my mission. The talks that
were given in Sacrament meeting were by a new couple in the ward that
have young kids and are both returned missionaries. They talked about
receiving revelation and it was really inspiring. Our gospel principles
class talked a lot about modern day prophets and that was great as
well. In Elder's Quorum we talked about missionary work to top it all
off. Sundays are always the best and so refreshing!
It was a great week and as always I'm looking forward to this next one!
Les Quiero Mucho,
Elder Gaskill
No comments:
Post a Comment