8/08/15
You guys must really be praying a bunch for us
because we are being very blessed here!! This week has been an amazing week :)
Honestly I am very glad that my last weeks on the mission could be ended like
this :) I am very grateful for all of you who are praying for our success
because it is truly being seen in our daily lives here. Where about 3 months
before we had about no investigators we have now improved drastically.
This week one of the
coolest things happened on Thursday. We hunting down the less actives on the
ward list in some of the humbler neighborhoods (and by humble I mean ghetto).
Some of those places where I just look at my companions and we say to each
other....if my mom could see me now....I think she would die ;P hahahahaha
(just kidding mom it wasn’t that bad! the worst thing was that they hadn’t cut
their grass in a long time ;) ) well we were walking and we found the number
where the family should have lived but then a little girl came out of the house
and told us that the family actually lived in the side alley. Then she pointed to this guy talking on the
phone walking up the alley and said that he was one of the people that we were
trying to find. We started to follow him
but we didn’t want to seem creepy our anything...so finally he looked back at
us and asked us who we were and what we wanted. We told him that we were
missionaries and that we were searching for a couple people and actually the
people that we were searching for turned out to be his parents! He said he had
been baptized in the church about 15 years ago. So we went to his house and
talked to him and his family. They were pretty nice and then Elder Betts asked
if there was anyone that they knew who was looking for the gospel and they
indicated their neighbors who lived two doors down. They were like; “there is
no door to the corridor that leads to their house so just walk in and then call
them”. So that is what we did. We walked up and just walked right in and I
clapped...and there were these two dogs that started barking a lot and I just
kept waiting and then this guy walked out of the house. He yelled at the
dogs! Then he looked at us and asked us
what we wanted....by this point I was a little startled so I was like...we are
the missionaries and your friend said you could use a visit our something like
that and we just were passing by....and then he was like ummm OK you can come
in if you want and so we went in and we went into the main room but the light
was burned out so we three sat down on the couch in the dark and the guy said “so
I am going to go call the whole family just wait here”....and so we waited and
waited for like 4 min and then I looked over at the others and I did my best to
break the tension and said "It’s a trap!! Like Starwars when they come out
of warp speed “;P kkkkk but then everyone came and it turns out that there were
15 people living in that house!!! We are now teaching two different families in
that house! They were extremely interested in the Book of Mormon and told us
that it would change their lives to know if the church of God was here on the
earth! We are going to visit them again on Monday!!!! Super excited :) so in
the end everything turned out okay :)
This week has been
awesome! We have a man who is preparing to be baptized and he is coming to the
party the ward is having tonight! :) Festa!!! It should be really fun!!!!!
I will tell you all
about the rest of my week when I get there in 10 days :P
I know that the church
is true! I feel the spirit testify to my soul as we teach about it and as I do
my best to live it. I know that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God and that
Thomas S. Monson is the prophet of God, call to lead the only living and true
church on the face of the earth.
Love, Elder Pachner II
