Dear family and friends,
So this has been my best P-day yet. I got to spend it;
-taking people to and from the hospital several times.
-Taking the presidents kids to and from school (this was all week, but today as well.)
-Helping people get to where they need to be for emergency changes.
-And, taking the cars of President and Hermana to have some things checked up.
So overall, a pday just like last week ;)
But regardless of that, here we are with a few minutes left and I have decided I should take some time to write home! :)
So this last week was actually really great!! But also frustrating! We will start with church on Sunday. We had 8 investigators at church last Sunday!! It was so amazing because we really did not have a ton of time like we had imagined in the area, but it was truly a miracle that that many people actually came with us to church!! And the other elders in the branch, Elder Chen and Elder Clark brought 12 investigators, so total in the branch, 20 of the 117 that attended were investigators!! It was really cool and we were so grateful to see miracles like that!
On the note of Ronald. We have been noticing that he has been a little less excited every time that we go visit as of like Sunday ish. So finally last night we went to visit, and he told us he didn't want us to come talk... It was really sad to see that because he had been progressing so well and we could see him getting happier and happier, and it was making us happier and happier. But something must have happened... and now he is really negative when we pass by. :( We will have to leave him for a little bit and maybe visit in a few weeks to remind him that we still care about him.
But on the other hand, 5 of the 8 that we brought to church are a dad and his two sons and their friends, and they are progressing surprisingly well! They are really accepting of the Gospel and willing to put their faith to the test to know if it is true! More info will be given on them as they progress! :)
But the best news of all however, is Bertha and her daughter Daniella. We decided that there was nothing else we as strangers missionaries could do, so we had to phone a friend. This friend was a friend of Bertha who had served a mission about 4 or 5 years ago, and she was just what we needed. Bertha has really been unsure about baptism, only because she is afraid of what her family will say and what they will think. So when this member friend began to speak, she bore her testimony about her conversion, and explained that after she felt that it was true, she knew that she had to follow, no matter what others thought, because what God told her was more important than what others tell. So at the end of the lesson, I felt prompted by the Spirit to invite her to pray right there in the moment with us to know if these things were true and if she should get baptized. We all knelt in prayer and she offered a wonderful prayer. The spirit was SO STRONG!! It was seriously the most amazing I have ever felt in my life! And so then we asked her how she felt, and she said super good. "So what is it that you are feeling?" and she responded "the Spirit". "And what is it that the spirit is trying to tell you?" and she said "that these things are true, and that i need to follow them!". So we asked "Will you be baptized on the 19th of November?" And she said YES!!! But that was not even the best part!! After she said yes, her daughter with special needs came up and gave her a great big hug!!! She could totally understand that that was a super special moment and that Bertha, and a few seconds later her daughter, had made a good decision!! So that was a really nice highlight of the past week :)
Other than that things have been alright, and crazy as normal! But for the lack of time this week, I'll have to cut it off there!
Love you all!!
Elder Moser
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