So this week I went to Amarillo on exchanges with the Zone leaders. We taught a few member lessons but most of their friends canceled on us. I got to help their member who is starting to build a huge shed, and we started doing the walls. I can confidently frame a house now so that's a plus.
We had a lesson with our friend Marcelo, who wants to be baptized! He's so cool, but he's being difficult. He has read and prayed about the Book of mormon, he told us he knows with his whole heart that The Book of Mormon is true, that Joseph Smith was a prophet, and that our church is the only true church. SO AWESOME BUT he wants to wait till August to be baptized, because he wants to know every little thing and know the ins and outs of the church. A little frustrating, because I don't even know everything, but hey it's all good we're working with him.
We found a new person named Nancy. She's way cool! She's a strong believer in christ, and has no church to belong to. We knocked her door, and she was actually just talking about us with her sons last night! She told them they need to meet with us. So when we met her, she only had 20 minutes before her work shift. It was WILD. She asked what makes our church different, so we quickly explained The Restoration, Book of Mormon, and living Prophets. She asked about the Godhead and our beliefs, she asked how we do our "communion" or the sacrament, she asked how we invite the spirit, so we explained prayer, baptism and the gift of the Holy Ghost. Had a question about the Priesthood so we explained that, had some questions about Joseph Smith so we quickly answered before she had to leave. All while the gift of tongues was working because we were speaking the fastest Spanish I've ever spoken haha. She's way cool I'm excited to see her progress!
We taught our friend Tyler the plan of Salvation. He's a Baptist, but he was very very interested in our beliefs. He was mainly interested on what our beliefs about family and children are, so we sent him the Family Proclamation. He was also very interested in the kingdoms of glory. We have another lesson this week with him.
We had another little miracle happen! We were gonna end the night by going home and making some phone calls and messaging people on Facebook, but I got the prompting to stay out and do some street contacting and knocking. So we followed it, and went around for about an hour and nothing. We were about to head home when we ran into our friend Yoli! We met her once and haven't gotten back in contact with her! We gave her the Book of mormon, had an amazing talk and bore testimony of it, and she loved it! We're meeting her again this week!
We had a sweet lesson with our 5 girls, they're the best. They've been taught everything, so we retaught the Restoration. They loved it, again haha. Edith watched conference and she had tons of questions and shared tons of the messages with the girls. Got really deeper into modern day prophets and Apostles and helped them see the importance. Edith told the rest of the girls that the Catholic church (they're old home church) is still in Apostasy because they have no priesthood, prophets or apostles. So that's a plus.
Had a lesson with our friend named Lonnie, he wants to be baptized but I'm 70 percent sure he was on some type of LSD trip so we'll get back to him haha.
I love yall! Hope everyone has a great week! I'm so excited for this Easter week! I challenge you all to take time to focus on the Savior everyday this week, and focus on what we can learn from what he did during this last week in his mortal ministry. I love you all!
Love, Elder Ryan
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