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| Me with the Jehovah's Witness Umbrella. |
Companion: Hermana Gonzalez
Missionary life is super strange and sometimes, it is super discouraging, but I have noticed during this week that it can also be really rewarding. I love being a missionary and getting to help the people in this area come closer to Jesus Christ and change to be better people.
This week has been pretty good as far as
finding people goes. One of the really cool people who we have started
to teach actually talked to us last week. I don't know if you remember
the lady who asked us to come back and do more service for her, but we
were able to go back and help her out. When we went, we started out by
cleaning her kitchen and then she took us to her dining room table. She
had a bunch of bills from about the past five years that were all in a
pile. She asked us to help her to organize them. The only problem is
that I couldn't really understand the way that she was telling us to
arrange them because all of the instructions were in Spanish. After
sitting around feeling a little useless, I decided to start putting the
papers in piles according to year. When I finally got my pile all
sorted, I looked around and realized that Hermana Gonzales and Mari (the
lady who we were helping) had been sorting them according to company.
Oh well. She really appreciated the help and asked us to come back the
next day to teach her a lesson. It went super well and she asked a lot
of good questions. I guess that service really is a good way to find
people to teach! Who would have thought?
The
other day, we were knocking on some doors in one of the neighborhoods
where we normally go. As we were going down the street, we knocked on
the door of a family of Jehovah's Witnesses. The mom came out to talk to
us. She asked us what we believed and so we started talking about the
Restoration of the Gospel. She stopped us right away and started
grilling us for about 30 minutes about the Bible and our beliefs in God.
It was super intimidating, especially because it was in English and
Hermana Gonzalez doesn't really feel very comfortable talking when we
teach in English. That meant that I was pretty much going up against the
lady alone. I finally just invited her to pray and ask for her answers
about our church that way. Hopefully, her heart will be softened.
That
same day, about two doors down, we knocked on another door and a man
came to the door. When we introduced ourselves, he told us that he was a
Jehovah's Witness and that he wanted us to tell him about our beliefs. I
thought that it was going to be just like the lady who we talked to
before, but he was actually really nice. While we were talking in him,
it started to rain. I don't know why, but I feel like any time it rains
here, it pours. The guy let us borrow his umbrella, so we are going to
go back and bring it back to him later.
This week, we have been working really hard to get our investigators to come to church. It is always really frustrating when Sunday comes around and the people who we thought were really progressing don't come. Because this Sunday was fast Sunday,
I decided to fast for all of our investigators and for their church
attendance. When the service started, I looked out into the crowd while I
was playing the piano and nobody was there. I felt so let down and I
thought that maybe my fast didn't work. After the opening hymn, Chris
and Stephanie (the two children who have started coming to church with
their mother, but who's father doesn't really want them to go to our
church) came. Imagine my surprise when I saw that they were accompanied
by their mother AND their father. I don't know if that means that he is
100% supportive, but I think that that is definitely a big step towards
him letting them be baptized. It was a miracle and I am positive that it
was an answer to my fast. I was just so happy and thankful to the Lord
for his help in this work!
This week, I have
seen the hand of the Lord in the work and the way that he is able to
help us in our righteous endeavors. I love being a missionary and being
able to bring the Gospel to others. I hope that I can become a better
instrument in the hands of the Lord and that I will be able to find
those people who are prepared!
I love you all
at home and I hope that everything goes well for you this week. I am
praying for you and I can feel your prayers for me being answered as
well. Thanks for everything!
Hermana Blau
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