Servants of Christ

Well it's been a pretty interesting week. Wednesday we had transfers, and we stayed together. It was kind of sad to see some of the people go. I can't believe that it'll be me the next one. I'm not gonna lie, it's hard to focus sometimes but I'm doing my best to work hard.

We've had a lot of trials this week. We've continued to drop a lot of investigators and trying to find new ones. So one of the days we went out and tried to find some, and the whole day nobody answered the door. That was hard. I felt a little discouraged that day. So when we got home we sat and talked and tried to figure out what we were doing wrong that was preventing us from finding new investigators. We talked it over and figured some things out and decided to change. So we started changing it that night and started updating the teaching records. The next day we went tracting and one of the first few doors we knocked there was a white guy that opened up. And he started to try and bash us and pick all the things out of our church that were wrong. I was tempted to open the Bible and start bashing back, but I restrained myself because it wouldn't get us anywhere. So we just stood there I defended our points, through a few scriptures out and was just smiling and laughing about how ridiculous this guy was. Then towards the end of the conversation he started criticizing us for going by the title Elder. And how we don't deserve the title because we're too young and that we couldn't go around with that title when he has grandkids older than us and telling people about what they need to do. And I kind of got mad at that and explained about it again, and told him that only prideful people would get offended by that and that prideful people wouldn't want to listen to Servants of Christ that are younger than them. And he got defensive about that and so we left. That took about a hour and a half. Then later on we found a lady who seemed pretty interested. We talked to her for a few minutes but she had to go so we're going back this week.

Then Saturday we had the baptism of Humberto. I baptized him. Everything turned out well. There were almost no complications. The Spirit was strong the whole time. Sunday we were asked to give talks in sacrament meeting. So we were waiting for Humberto to show up and get confirmed but he didn't show up, so we started giving our talks. I talked about the Atonement. I think it went pretty well. It's my favorite thing to talk about. There's so much to it. But half way through Elder Zambrano's talk Humberto walked in. So he finished his talk, I gave mine, and they had Humberto come to the front to be confirmed. So the day went on and we were planning for Silvias baptism. The plan we came up with was for her to attend an english ward and have a translator. So she went to the english ward, it went well. So we had her baptism and confirmation on Sunday night. It was great as well. The Spirit was strong, there were a lot of people, it was great. Oh and Sunday we were able to contact someone we've been trying to talk to for a week or two. We found the whole family there and we talked with them. They've been talking to missionaries for a few years now. We talked to them, had a pretty good lesson, and at the end me and my companion sang a hymn for them. The Spirit filled the room, and we invited them to "follow the example of Jesus Christ by being baptized by someone holding the priesthood authority of God." Each one of them said yes. The son needs to get married and we're going to help him with that. We're going to the temple with them this Thursday. It should be good. It was a great way to end such a tough week. 2 baptisms and 4 people on date to be baptized!