This week was awesome! Just want to start out by saying how blessed we are to be working in the Lords vineyard. So this week wasnt extremely successful finding a ton of new people, but we really are starting to get some people progressing towards their baptisms. We have an investigator named Javier who is 18 and he is preparing to be baptised the 11th of February and this week we really saw his desire to be baptised. He told us that he was going to start a new job this upcoming week that starts at 4:30am and he gets off at 9:30pm... so he wouldnt be able to meet with us very much. That really scared us a bit and we kind of thought that he would veer off a little bit, but he told us that his one condition with his new boss was that he would not work on Sundays so he could go to church. That was just awesome to see that he has learned how important church attendance is in his conversion, and more importantly, in his salvation.
The other investigator that we have been having a bit of trouble with is named Carolina. She is always reading and wanting to learn more, but at the same time that is a little bit of her problem. She isnt too set on being baptised because she wants more time to learn and grow her knowledge first. We always try to tie it back to faith. We know that we need faith to be baptized, and in Alma 32:21 it says that faith isnt having a perfect knowledge of all things, it is having hope in things that we cant see. She has been struggling with her faith a little bit but we were super blessed this week to have an awesome activity that really helped her. We got a call sometime last week saying that President Vasquez was going to have a Family Home Evening at our church building with just our district (5 companionships). He doesnt do these very often and we got lucky enough for him to come to our building with only our investigators. So the thing was kind of a long story but ill tell that in a second.
So Carolina came to this Family Home Evening and it was all about faith and how we need to trust in our Heavenly Father. It seemed to work out perfectly for her needs right now, I wonder why. We passed by her house the next day and talked to her about the meeting. She was saying how beautiful it was and how we need to always have faith. It was a blessing to have this thing with our President, and even more of a blessing because of how specific it was to her needs. I hope this can give her the little push that she needs to get in the water.
So now to the actual meeting, it was super funny how it ended up working out. We were told that we just had to show up with our investigators and the president would have everything else ready. We showed up and President wasnt there. We thought he was on El Salvador time which is like 15-20 minutes late. We got a call after a bit and he ended up being on Mormon El Salvador time. For those who dont know that is like 30-40 minutes late... to an hour long meeting. We had to do something for like 40 people right on the spot. We were lucky that someone had a Finding Faith in Christ video so we put that on and Elder Bailey talked a bit about faith. Just a little funny story that we had.
The life of a missionary is super exciting sometimes. Seriously though, the work is awesome and I love it more nd more every day, I love my Heavenly Father, and I love the people here. I love you all and I pray for you all the time! Much love and have a great week!
Love,
Elder Adams Jr.
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