So I
definitely learned some lessons in following the Spirit this week... good and
bad. But we'll start with the good...
Yesterday we went
to contact a referral downtown and we knocked on the door and the people
weren't home. But in the apartment building next door I saw a little boy
who was maybe 2 years old and hispanic, looking out the window at us.
Usually I would have thought nothing of it, but I felt like we should try to
visit them. My companion wasn't sure about it but I thought that we
really should so we went. We knocked on the door and a guy named Rodolfo
answered. He was the little boy's dad. He was super nice and we explained
to him that we're missionaries and had a message of Jesus Christ that helps
strengthen families and we talked about that a little bit. I told him
that we felt like we needed to knock on their door and it was probably God who
guided us there. He agreed and opened the door wide and said that we
could come in! We were so surprised! Unfortunately, his wife wasn't home so we
couldn't go in. But he gave us his number so we can set up an appointment
and he seems pretty open. Whether or not anything comes of it, t was
definitely a testimony builder of following the spirit!
Now for the not so
good... We have a super awesome who's preparing for baptism. Her
baptismal date was set for the 31st of May. On Saturday and Sunday
morning Hna.Gomez and I both had little feelings that we should call her just
to make SURE that they were coming to church. We didn't talk about it,
but I brushed those feelings off because her and her mom are super solid and
were like 100% committed to coming to church when we had our last lesson with
them. And they told the member that we took with us that they'd be coming
as well. But they didn't come to church:( We called and called right before
church but no one answered. We went by after church and the mom said she had
been working so they couldn't go. We told them that now we have to move her
date to the 7th of june and her mom was super sad. She was like man!
If I had known I would have dropped her off. We were super sad too because we
could have gotten her a ride! If only we had followed the prompting of the
Spirit to call and find out we could have made sure she'd be at church. So it's
definitely our fault that we didn't make SURE they had a way to church and
everything. Lessons learned... we're repenting. But we're still stoked
about the baptism on the 7th, but it's the weekend right after the transfer so
Hna.Gomez and I might not be companions still. But it's okay because
we'll still be able to come back for the baptism. And our investigator is
still getting baptized so it's all good!
But it's been a really
good week! I love being here. I love being a missionary. There are
SO MANY good things about it! Love you all! Que tengan exito a donde vayan.
Les quiero
mucho,
Hermana Horne
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