What's up my friends!
Crazy week this week full of work which is good! I'll
get right to the point.
Okay so we're teaching some alcoholics and trying to help
them the best that they can, but they keep drinking when they say they won't
which is frustrating. The sad thing is they have a 14 year old boy that's
pretty much perfect. One lesson with them we took him outside afterward
and he actually started to cry because he wants something better for his
life. So we asked him if we could start teaching him by himself in the
church and he said absolutely. We had our first lesson with him and he
even brought a friend! We taught the Restoration and invited them to be
baptized and they said yes. He came to Stake Conference with us this week
and already started reading the Book of Mormon. He's awesome. (Also
we stole his parent's coffee and took a picture with it.)
I already told you guys about our drug addict
investigator? Well we met him! We taught him at the beggining of
the week and set some goals to stop taking drugs. We returned at the end
of the week and he didn't do drugs all week! He said everytime he was
tempted he said a prayer or read the Book of Mormon and the temptations went
away. We definitely invited him and his family to get baptized and they
said yes. He said before he never would have said yes to us, but now he
can see that he needs this Church in his life. Super cool experience.
Also this week pretty much every missionary in our little
area had medical problems. I think all of us except my companion went to
the hospital this week which is awesome haha.
To finish I'd just like to share a quote from Jeffrey R.
Holland that I really like. It says, “Some blessings come soon, some
come late, and some don't come until heaven; but for those who embrace the
gospel of Jesus Christ, they come.” I've noticed here in the mission that
a lot of times people want to receive the blessings right now, without putting
in hardly any work. It even happens to us missionaries. But we need
to realize that God has His own time and His own plan for each of us.
Sometimes we won't receive the blessings we want exactly when we want
them. The important thing is that we can't stop doing the things we need
to do just because we don't get our blessings right away. Patience is a
virtue for a reason. When we keep the commandments, we know that God has
to bless us. We just need to wait for God's timing to align with our own.
Have a great week! I love you guys and hope you're all
doing well!
Elder Warren
Pictures:
Our investigators' coffee
We went to Walmart to get a new phone cause ours got stolen
My boy President Mann
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