District Leader
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 by Sora Jay
Querida família,
It was good to talk with you guys on mother´s day even though it seemed really short with four different phone calls. Congratulations to Joni for the new baby.
This week was transfers, Elder Woolley and I stayed here, but I was called to be a district leader. Now I have to deal with other missionaries problems, but it will be good, I am learning a lot and now I get to go the leadership trainings.
Also this week Elder Araujo visited our mission and spoke with us, it was pretty good. He told us that the only talent a missionary needs is the talent of being an instrument, we just need to do what the Lord asks and he will use us to do his work. We just have to open our mouths.
I have a couple cool stories for you guys:
My first companion in the MTC was Elder Kennedy, he is from Sandy, but his dad wasn´t a member of the church and liked to talk bad about the church. Elder Kennedy was inactive for a couple year but he came back to church when he was 18 after he went to a temple open house and decided to serve a mission. Guess what happened last week. His dad was baptized and now everyone in his family are active members of the church. Pretty cool.
The second story:
We found a guy named Pedro my first week here and have been teaching him ever since he is married and has three kids. The teaching process has been a little slow because he used to be very active in another church, but last we he finally asked God if the Book of Mormon is true and he had a dream. In his dream he was reading a book that had the bible in the front and the book of Mormon in the back and when he saw it he started to yell, "It´s true, all this mormon stuff is true!" When he told us the dream I said that I would bring something for him to see the next time we came. I borrowed a quad from one of the members and read in Ezequiel about the stick of Juda and José joining and being on your hand and then pulled the quad out of Elder Woolley´s backpack and let Pedro look at it. Agora só batiza!
We also have an investigator named Jailma that already knows that the Book of Mormon is true and cries in the lessons because she feels the spirit, but she needs to come to church.
This week we did a family home evening in the house an inactive sister that started to came back to church and a lot of people came. It is weird when you are the oldest missionary and everyone just looks at you until you start the meetings and stuff. We had to set up this family home evening, but while we were there the members marked one for next week and they marked on for the 24th because it will be my birthday. I hope they make cake.
Gotta go,
Elder Jay
It was good to talk with you guys on mother´s day even though it seemed really short with four different phone calls. Congratulations to Joni for the new baby.
This week was transfers, Elder Woolley and I stayed here, but I was called to be a district leader. Now I have to deal with other missionaries problems, but it will be good, I am learning a lot and now I get to go the leadership trainings.
Also this week Elder Araujo visited our mission and spoke with us, it was pretty good. He told us that the only talent a missionary needs is the talent of being an instrument, we just need to do what the Lord asks and he will use us to do his work. We just have to open our mouths.
I have a couple cool stories for you guys:
My first companion in the MTC was Elder Kennedy, he is from Sandy, but his dad wasn´t a member of the church and liked to talk bad about the church. Elder Kennedy was inactive for a couple year but he came back to church when he was 18 after he went to a temple open house and decided to serve a mission. Guess what happened last week. His dad was baptized and now everyone in his family are active members of the church. Pretty cool.
The second story:
We found a guy named Pedro my first week here and have been teaching him ever since he is married and has three kids. The teaching process has been a little slow because he used to be very active in another church, but last we he finally asked God if the Book of Mormon is true and he had a dream. In his dream he was reading a book that had the bible in the front and the book of Mormon in the back and when he saw it he started to yell, "It´s true, all this mormon stuff is true!" When he told us the dream I said that I would bring something for him to see the next time we came. I borrowed a quad from one of the members and read in Ezequiel about the stick of Juda and José joining and being on your hand and then pulled the quad out of Elder Woolley´s backpack and let Pedro look at it. Agora só batiza!
We also have an investigator named Jailma that already knows that the Book of Mormon is true and cries in the lessons because she feels the spirit, but she needs to come to church.
This week we did a family home evening in the house an inactive sister that started to came back to church and a lot of people came. It is weird when you are the oldest missionary and everyone just looks at you until you start the meetings and stuff. We had to set up this family home evening, but while we were there the members marked one for next week and they marked on for the 24th because it will be my birthday. I hope they make cake.
Gotta go,
Elder Jay
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