So last Tuesday we had District council! Super good I love district council because it's a good reset and helps me get back into focus after P day. After district council we found a guy named Abel! He's super cool and he loves loves NFL so we talked to him about football for like 15 minutes but then we taught a sweet Restoration lesson and he seemed really interested!
Okay so Wednesday was awesome. There's a woman named Margaret that we know because we know her son. After weeks of trying we finally got in her door and it was super cool. We sat down and talked and she explained that she's a devout catholic and stuff but she loves us. She says her son is only happy around us and we have a light and that she respects us a ton. So anyway she started telling us that about fourty years ago she was taught by sister missionaries in San Diego. She said that they started teaching her about the steps of repentance from a chapter in the book of mormon. But then they had to leave and no missionaries ever came back. So she looks at us, gets a serious look, points to the book of mormon and says, "find it." So we start flinging through the book trying to find a book of mormon chapter that talks about repentance...spoiler literally every chapter talks about it. So we went to the main ones and just none of them felt right. Then we turned to Mosiah 4 and we just knew. We read the first verse and she started crying and got all excited and started shouting because she remembered King Benjamin and she just loved it. So we proceeded to read the whole chapter and the spirit was SO STRONG. She loved it it much and my testimony grew a ton. We ended up talking about modern day prophets and she's now studying different talks from Russell M. Nelson!
On Thursday we had a lesson with a guy named Julian and we brought a member. We literally spoke like 4 sentences the whole hour long lesson because our member just went off. Julian didn't read the Book of Mormon and our member let him hear it. He bore some super powerful testimony and the spirit was so strong. Julian was super impressed by the spirit and testimony of our member Hermano Ortiz. So that was awesome! Then, we taught a guy who's brother decapitated someone and he claims he could be Adam. Like the Archangel one. Oh well haha
On Friday we had our weekly volleyball and met a guy who goes to La Luz del Mundo which is kinda like Satan trying to copy our church not gonna lie. They claim authority and all these things and they have a rule where they can't read any type of book other than The Bible.
On Saturday we met with Mark at the Library. Mark is awesome and loves our church and The Book of Mormon. We read 2 Nephi 31 explaining the doctrine of christ and the spirit was so strong! And then all the sudden this random guy in the middle of the Library comes up and talks us for about 30 minutes. He went off about the evilness of the Book of mormon and the Bible and just blasphemed for 30 minutes. Mark bore his testimony to him and it was so powerful and when that guy left Mark goes "wow I felt a gross feeling when he was talking. Let's start reading and feel good again." And it just made me so happy to realize that he can recognize the spirit of the Book of mormon. I think God sent that guy so Mark could recognize it. We invited him to be baptized and he said yes! So everyone pray for Mark!
So we were in a trio with one of the ZLs this week and so we had to go to both one of the English wards and our Spanish branch. So we were at the church all day. But our Spanish branch talked about different ways to smoke meat our entire second hour so that was a highlight.
Sorry again for the long email but it was a busy week! Tons of miracles! Super awesome to see God blessing us when we work hard. Truly nothing we do is because of ourselves but all from him! Love yall!
Love, Elder Ryan
Honestly I was at bad at taking pics this week....and honestly these maybe some of the same ones I sent last week I don't even know but there ya go
We helped a lady chop wood in our pros so that was sick
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