Wow...
what a week. In some ways, it feels super super long, and in other
ways, it feels very very short! Monday and Tuesday were last minute
visits and Wednesday, Elder Warner left to go to Weston. It was a
bummer. Elder Neeley, Elder Curzon, and Elder Warner are going to be
life long friends and I was a little bummed we were only together for 1
transfer. Elder Fragoso came here and we quickly started working. We
started trying to contact part member families. We stopped by one of our
members to talk about why his kids weren't baptized but he wasn't home.
We went up to the top floor to just knockin his house and we met a guy
who let us in. We taught the Restoration and during it, the guy, J,
told us he had done some crazy things. He has been in prison for 14
years. He now, has been on Probation for the last 17 years and he gets
off of probation December 12th. For people to get baptized, they cannot be on probation. We extended a baptismal date for the 15th of December. The Saturday
after the 12th and he said, "wow. That's my birthday. Yes. I will be
baptized then." It was a great lesson. We went back the following day
and talked with him and his wife and the member who lived on the first
floor. We extended the same date to her and she accepted as well. It was
super cool how we met them right when his probation is going to end.
They didn't make it to church like they said but we will keep trying
with them.
Friday,
we were making more visits and decided to call J. We set up a
time for later that night and asked Hermano De Aza to come with us. We
taught them the Restoration again with her daughter D. It was a
great lesson and she said she would pay a taxi to bring her to church.
Hermano de Aza said that he would be able to pick them up and bring
them. We extended a baptismal date for September 15th and they accepted it. They said, "wow. September 15th
is J's (the 6 year old son) birthday." They came to church and loved
it. D is 11 and she went to Young Womens and J. went to
Primary. J came with us to Gospel Principles and enjoyed it. We
will meet with them tomorrow and they will be coming to church next Sunday.
Saturday
night, we were meeting with a member family to ask if they would help us
get in touch with their Sister in law. We want to start teaching her
and they said they would help us. After leaving there house, we talked
with a guy from Ecuador. His name is H. and he was a little drunk so
we just got his info, gave him ours, invited him to church, and left. We
called him Sunday morning and he said he was going to come. Well Henry did show up. He came and sat
with us during Sacrament. We haven't even had a lesson with him. We will
be teaching him this week and extending a baptismal date. I've never
had a random person on the street come to church without tons of fallow
up calls and arrangements of rides etc. So we have had a lot of success.
The week has been good! I'm doing well! Excited for more to follow!
Love ya
Elder Bushman
No comments:
Post a Comment