1. Juan. We met Juan while tracting on Tuesday morning. We taught him the Restoration and he accepted a copy of the Book of Mormon! "When can we come back?", we asked.
"Well you see," he said, "I am here visiting my aunt from Mexico. I will only be here for a few more days, and I don't know when I will be free again.... Could you come back later today?"
...... Lemme think about tha-YES WE CAN COME BACK!
So we did later that afternoon. By that time Juan had read and prayed about the assignment we had left with him. This is how the conversation went:
"How did you feel as you read and prayed, Juan?"
"It's hard to describe... I felt this overwhelming feeling of peace"
"That's awesome. Where do you think those feelings come from?"
"They come from God."
"Exactly, so what does that mean?"
"It means that the book is true!"
Yes Juan! Yes it does!!! Although we can't keep working with him, I hope that the missionaries in Mexico will, and that he will continue to progress and act on the answer that he has received.
2.On Wednesday, I got to go on an exchange with Elder Nguyen (pronounced "win") from the Vietnamese program! We had had a pretty slow day, but at the end of the night, we decided to try the house of a member that the ward council asked us to visit. A young Hispanic woman opened up, which wasn't a good sign because we were looking for a guy named Rob .... As it turns out, Rob moved over two years ago. But this woman, named Eileen, just had her first daughter, Scarlett, two months ago and was happy to hear what we had to say! She also accepted the message of the Restoration and a Book of Mormon and set an appointment for next week. What an awesome way to end the exchange!
3. You're probably getting tired of reading so I'll keep this one brief. On Thursday we met a man who totally wasn't interested, but we asked, as we always do, "Who do you know who would be more interested?" This particular time, Elder Sirrine asked, "Who do you know who is going through a difficult time in their life right now?"
The man surprisingly perked up, and told us to try his neighbor. So we did, and we met Antonia, who let us in and voiced concerns about her wayward son Tony. We went back later that night and taught both of them the Restoration, which they accepted! They committed to read and pray every night together!
The Lord blessed us so much this week! But it in good times as well as trying, I am just so grateful to be a missionary. I love it so much.
Have an incredible week everyone!
-Elder Francis
The sisters in our ward have been passing out a picture of them
saying, "thank you so much, we love you!" To all of the ward members
they have dinners with. So this is the one we came up with:
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