We had consejo de lideres on Wednesday, so it was another week of traveling. We are learning to make better plans for our goals as a mission. In the days after consejo, Hna Aleixo and I made plans and goals and then STUCK TO THEM. Even though every contact we made with the Book of Mormon didn´t turn into a new investigator, and every new investigator isn´t progressing, we have had giant steps with existing investigators and I know Heavenly Father is blessing us in other parts of the work because we are trying and focusing on reaching our goals.
I think Hna Aleixo and I are becoming professional dog-washers. Cleopatra hurt her knee and hasn´t been able to do anything for a while, so we asked her what we could do to help her. She asked us to help wash her dogs! haha This week we were able to several small services to investigators, and really it has been fun! Washing clothes, dogs, and they are very grateful.
We had an intercambio this week. I was with Hna Moura in Hato Mayor. We had a cool experience in which we went to an investigators
house of theirs and she let us in. I sat down like normal thinking she was the investigator, turns out Elizabeth is the investigators sister and she has NEVER let the hermanas go inside the house when she´s there. We started singing the hymn and part way through a man showed up at the door and stood there until we finished the song. She invited him in. His name is Angel. Turns out Elizabeth and Angel used to be together but about 5 months ago they broke up and now they´re just friends....but we taught them Plan of Salvation and invited them to be baptized. They sat there and said nothing...we were in silence for a while and I asked angel how he felt. He said ¨joy and peace¨ he realized that it was the spirit and he accepted to be baptized!
Campusano had his interview in december and didn´t pass because the morning of the interview he had drinken coffee. After the interview he basically disappeared off the face of the earth. We called, we called his girlfriend (who is a member) we passed by her house (because Campusano lives in a ¨campo¨ kind of far away, so we´ve never actually been to his house, we always teach him in her house) and we could not make contact with him. He didn´t go to church the sunday after the interview, so it had been more than two weeks since we were able to talk to him or make contact with him. I was getting nervous that we had lost him. But lots of prayers later, yesterday he was in the church before us in his white shirt and after the meeting he told us that the morning he drank coffee before his interview...was the last time he drank coffee!! His girlfriend asked when he could be baptized and have his interview again. HEAVENLY FATHER ANSWERS PRAYERS! We never gave up calling. We tried everyday, so if there´s anything I´ve learned from this...it´s perseverence. Recently the work has been a little harder, and I explained my feelings to President Smith, and today he gave me advice that will help me and I hope will help you all as well. He said¨, ¨we are called to the work and must press forward - despite what we may be tempted to see as failures, in reality they are successes when we do our part and continue to press forward.¨ Pressing forward and seeing the good in every circumstance is a MUST. If we constantly look at the negative in everything, we´re going to be pretty sad people! Let´s be happy! :)
Love you all and hope you all have the greatest week!
Hermana Lawrence
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