Hi everyone, hope you all are doing great! Last week we were
able to visit a less-active who is agnostic, and we invited him to a YSA
broadcast, and he said he would come! I'm super pumped for him to got there!
We also handed off a former investigator named Nelson
to the Spanish Sisters, since he is from Nicaragua and his wife is from
Mexico, we thought they would be more comfortable talking in Spanish than
in English, although their English is terrific. On Friday the Spanish Sisters
called us and said that they were able to meet the family, and they invited
them to a meeting on Saturday that Elder David A. Bednar will be presiding at,
and the said that they want to go! The miracle of it all is that the wife is a
die-hard Catholic, and she's pretty firm in her beliefs, but she's the one who
told the sisters that she wants to go, and she'll take her husband!. But wow, I
am just so amazed and happy that Nelson and Veronica (his wife) want to go!
I also was able to make some biscuits and gravy for
breakfast as well last week, which is one of my favorite breakfast foods from
back home. Unfortunately we don't have all the same cooking items that's back
home in Utah, so we had to improvise a little bit. Fortunately it all worked
out, and the other elders in our apartment thought it was delicious, so that's
good to know haha.
On Friday night after dinner we were biking home, when a
drunk man named Jacob yelled at us to stop, so we stopped and talked to him. He
said "What do you know about the tree?" At first I thought he was
talking about the tree that was on the other side of the street, or about the
tree of good and evil in th Garden of Eden, but we just started teaching him
about the tree in Lehi's dream. He thought that what we were telling him was
the coolest thing haha! And then he asked "Well, what does the water
mean?", so we went with it and taught him about the water of filth that
separates the tree from the great and spacious building. "Ok" he
said, "so if the water is filthy, then how is the tree good?",
thinking that the water feeds the tree (if you read in the Book of Mormon, the
filthy water doesn't actually feed the tree, it's actually the fountain of
righteousness...I think...yeah I'm pretty sure, I'm just too lazy to pull out
my scriptures at the moment haha). Elder Morton and I both didn't know what to
say because we were stumped haha, but then I realized that this whole time
Jacob was talking about the tree of good and evil in the Garden of Eden.
Anyways, we told him that we had to get going because we running late, but he
kept on telling us to stay with him, and he even said he would walk with us to
our apartment! So we slowly made our way up north to the apartment. He pulled
out a cigarette and lit it, and he had a liqour bottle of King Cobra that he
seemingly pulled out of nowhere haha. He kept asking good questions, and we
would answer his questions and tell him what we believe. The best though was
when he asked us who created the world, and we told him that Jesus Christ,
under the direction of Heavenly Father, created the universe. And Jacob's eyes
got all big and he got excited and swore a couple times and said that what we
told him was super cool, and he was mesmerized by what we were telling him
haha! We told him that we could teach him more if he was interested, and we
gave him a pass-along card with our number on it. This is an experience that I
will never forget from my mission haha!
Fast Sunday was really cool, our investigator Jose went up
to the stand and bore his testimony! That's almost unheard of! Everybody in the
ward was telling him he has a great testimony, and he indeed does! His
testimony that he bore was simple, yet wonderful at the same time!
We've been getting rain here in Chino since yesterday, and
it rained this morning as well but now it's sunny and windy outside, but I'm
glad for the change in weather haha.
I love you all, thanks for your love and support, and I'll
talk to you next week! Oh yes, and also I will be emailing on Thursday next
week since our P-Day is going to be on Thursday.
Enjoying some hearty biscuits and gravy for breakfast!
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