This week was really cool! We have
found many investigators and they should all be progressing but really Satan is
against our work so none of our investigators are going to church! One was literally walking to church when she
got a call from her sister that she needed to go to her house so she didn’t end
up going!!! It is frustrating especially
when we are teaching the best we have ever taught!
It
was the funniest thing in the world! We were teaching this family and the 12
year old boy wasn’t understanding so Elder Schoen starting explaining it in
dragon ball z form! So prophets are like freza which the god sent to the earth
and Jesus is like Goku....it was the funniest thing I have heard on my mission!
I started to die laughing! It was the best lesson we have ever taught! really
the spirit was there with alot of force and it was amazing!
So something I learned this week is that
my testimony of the Book of Mormon is a little different! I was talking to a less active and we were
asking him to read the Book of Mormon and pray about it and he told us that he
had already done that and that he didn’t feel like that he should if he already
asked....So I thought about how I knew the gospel was true....and how really I
had read the Book of Mormon 3 or 4 times before I actually new It was true
because I never actually wanted to know...I didn’t have real intent like Moroni
says that we need! I just felt the spirit really strongly and I
am actually very grateful for who I am! I am happy for the different way I can testify
about the Book of Mormon! I am very grateful for the spirit! Truly we feel the
spirit in all that we do and I know without it we could not teach!!
3/31/14
This week we
had some really cool experiences! I
recieved a revelation while thinking about a lesson that we had given earlier
that day. We had gone to our recent convert’s
house and started a new program called 4 which enables us to get 4 references!
It was pretty great but during the lesson I had be inspired to promise him that
if he prayed before choosing the names to give us He would receive inspiration
on which of his friends to put on the list. As I was thinking about this later
I was thinking about the promise that I made him...and then I received the
inspiration that really when we make promises like that we are really
prophesying because we are telling what will happen in the future...true it is
a conditional future but when you look in the Book of Mormon you will also see
that some of the prophesies are conditional. I just always thought of the
spirit of prophesy in the scriptures as something that only the prophets and
men of really strong faith had but I realized in that revelation that it can be
as simple as a promise made by a simple missionary. It was a very interesting experience
something that I will not soon forget.
Also we had to cut one of our
investigators.... he has a problem with about all the commandments and we went
there and he was actually really high on cocaine. First he tried to lie to us and say he wasn’t
high but we both knew he was lying and pretty much it ended with him
saying the flesh is stronger than the spirit! It just shows how much you limit your agency
when you get involved with bad things! But we both felt that we should cut him so we
did.
I
was told that I was part of the CIA the other day!! That was actually pretty funny! We were looking for a less active but when we
knocked on the door an old man came out. He told us that he moved in after the lady so
we decided to make a contact and talk to him about the church. He said he was of no religion but he believed
in God but not in Jesus as the son of God but as just some cool guy that did
miracles. He believed in reincarnation
and that the bible was completely false even though he then used it in his
argument against us...but anyways at the end of the conversation he told Elder
Schoen that I was deceiving him that I was a CIA agent and that I was brain
washing him. It was very
interesting.....sometimes I just don’t even understand where people get these
ideas! He said that our religion was not logical so we asked for him to explain
his logic....he never explained and started talking about how I was sending in
reports.....but yeah it was pretty funny!
There
is one thing that you guys could do for me! I am sure that you are already
doing it but please pray for our investigators, specifically that they will be
able to go to church!!!! We are having problems getting them to come
there but hopefully it will happen this week!!!!
I love you
all!! I am so glad that you all are safe!
Abraço e
Beijos,
Love, Elder Pachner
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