Well this week has
been really awesome!! Some really crazy things have happened this week like on
Thursday night we just got done with our correlation meeting at the church and
when we are just about to leave these 4 East Indian foreign exchange university
students walk in and ask if they can have a church tour, so we said of course
and we showed them around and gave them our number and they said they would
call us back. Then on Friday we were out and we dropped by a person who had
told previous missionaries that they could come back and so we went and knocked
on the house and the lady that answered said that the person we were looking
for moved but then told us we could come back because she was interested in
learning about our church because her biological family was Mormon, so we set
up a time to come back later that day and had a really awesome lesson. So needless
to say we saw some pretty awesome Miracles this week!
One of the
people that we have been working with is Garry and we have been seeing him a
lot this transfer. We have really been trying to help him to progress and quit
smoking because he has told us several times that he wants to get baptized but
he can’t because he still smokes but over the last few weeks he has been really
cutting back. So yesterday I fasted that he would be able to over come his smoking
addiction and last night we went over to see him and he told us that he had
tried smoking but only smoked half a cigarette because it was making him sick.
You know what they say God works in mysteries ways. It was so awesome to see
him and he is truly progressing and has a strong desire to get baptized. So we
set a date for him to be baptized on June 6th and it really looks like he is
going to make it.
One of the other
really solid people that we have been working with is Katrina. We met Katrina
at the beginning of the transfer and invited her to General Conference and she
came but right after that her mom passed away and she was really busy planning
the funeral and had a lot on her plate but a few weeks ago she texted us out of
the blue and asked when church was so we told her and she came last week! At
church yesterday she told us how she found a Book of Mormon 30 day study
challenge. So that is insane! She is so awesome and has been prepared by the
Lord to hear the Gospel.
One of the
things that I have really learned on my mission is that it’s not me and my
companion that convert people, it’s not us that prepare people but it’s the
Lord. Yes, we do teach people and we do help prepare people but it’s someone
much bigger than us that brings people to the Gospel. I have loved my mission
and have really learned a lot and am really excited to continue on and learn a
lot more.
I am so
grateful for this gospel and for what it has done for me. I am extremely
grateful my Savior for giving me the opportunity to share his gospel with
others and for giving me the opportunity to choose to live with God again. I
know he lives and I know that he is always there for us no matter what we are
going through. I know he loves all of us.
Love Elder Slack
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