So here in Aurora, even without the 4th of July, it was a pretty dang sweet week. This area is pretty awesome. I've been reflecting on some of my misson experiences, and I've realized that I've been really lucky. For the past like year of my mission, I've had companions who have all been awesome. They've been hard-working, they've wanted to be obedient, they've been easy to get along with. Plus I've been in areas where there's a lot to do, a lot of people to teach. Of course it hasn't all been just super easy--I have had some struggles, and there have been some hard times. But it seems like generally Heavenly Father has been making it pretty easy for me to be a good missionary. I definitely feel very blessed. Even just the fact that Me and my companion are both new to the area is a really neat thing--it makes it a lot harder to slip into routines when everything is so new.
So I know you probably want to know what sort of cool things happened! Well here you go!
1. Our most progressing investigator has been worried for a while because he doesn't feel like God is answering his prayers. He's been hoping that God's going to send him some incredible experience proving that the Book of Mormon is true. But when we taught him on Saturday, he was starting to realize that God has been talking to him, just not in massive ways. He talked about a "joy" that he feels when we come, and a peaceful feeling he has when he reads the Book of Mormon. He's so cool. He probably won't be able to be baptized while I'm still here, but I know that he's going to progress so much in the gospel. He just seems like he'll be a great member.
2. Friday was just full of miracles. We had planned to just do some tracting in the early afternoon, but while we were doing our weekly planning session, I was just messing around with the phone and remembered a referral that the English Elders had sent us. They said he was available any time, so we decided to swing by and check him out. We did, and he immediately let us in. He is super cool. He actually requested that missionaries come, because his best friend who lives in California is a member. Apparently they'd always been super close, but they used to essentially be gang-bangers together. They led a really sketchy, dangerous life. But this friend of his learned about the church, and was able to completely turn his life around. So now he wants to know about it. When we got there, he showed us how he already has the gospel library app downloaded, and everything. He said he's been listening to the Book of Mormon for a few days, too. Super cool.
3. Another miracle on Friday: We stopped by a less-actives' house to see if they were home. They weren't, so we did a little bit of tracting in the apartment building. after a few doors, it seemed like the building didn't have very many Hispanic people living there, but we decided to knock a few more doors. When a Hispanic lady answered, we started off with the normal door approach: "Hey, we're missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Have you ever spoken with Missionaries like us before?" (in Spanish). Her response surprised us a lot: "yeah, actually I'm a member of the church!" We had no idea this lady lived there, she wasn't on the records or anything. But she's less active, she wants to get active, and she wants us to teach her 9-year-old daughter so that she can get baptized. Super awesome.
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| Iguana tacos - yum! |
4. And then this wasn't a miracle, but pretty fun--they told us that either we had to be in at 6:00 PM on Saturday because of the 4th of july, or we had to be with members. So we had our Ward Mission Leader pick us up, and we hung out with him for a few hours, just talking about his mission, and other church stuff, and everything.
Being a missionary is great! I'm going to miss it a lot, so I'm trying hard to maximize these last few weeks of it.
Love,
Peter
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