Hola, hola, hola,
This week was a lot better besides the heat. It is getting up into the upper 80's and we hadnt hooked up our swamp cooler, so last night I got on the roof and hooked it all up. This past week has been fun and went by very fast. Friday night all the missionaries in the mission hopped on the TRAX and went to the tabernacle center to see a chior of 400 adults and 200 children and 200 person orchestra perfom Messiah in America. The words of the concert followed word for word verses in 3rd Nephi about the coming of the Savior and his appearence in the Americas. It was AMAZING, the spirit was out of this world. The best part was at the very end they did an encore where all the children sang a beautiful rendition of Beautiful Savior. I was crying the missionary next to me was crying and wow people everywhere were crying. Our mission president was in the chior and at the begining he came up to the balcony where all 200 missionaries were seated and told us we could take off our suit jackets. As we did so everyone in the tabernacle applauded us and stood up, it made me feel loved.
Saturday we did exchanges so I was in Taylorsville working with Elder Gomes from Cape Verde while Elder Hughes (district leader) and Elder Santiago worked in my area. It was a fun day. Elder Gomes is a very hard working and so we got along great. We visited a lady who did not understand the priesthood but she asked for a blessing so it was the perfect time to explain it. We then grabbed the bikes to ride across town to our next appt. I had to use Elder Hughes bike which would not have been a bad thing except it could not shift out of the lowest gear. So riding up hills was not to bad but in every other part I had to pedel crazy fast to keep up. We taught this family who had about 6 million question but they were honest real questions. They went to church the next day and seem like they are prepared for baptism. We ended that day extremely tired and ready for bed.
Mond mrning Elder Hughes randomly showed up at our house during personal study. He had had a long talk with Pres about our area. President had actually called him to talk about our area. We havent had a baptism in awhile and President told him that Elder Santiago and I are too good of missionaries to not have had a baptism in so long. He told us to be more bold. Elder Hughes told us everything pres wanted us to do and so we decided we would do it. Yesterday we started our new teaching idea where we tell people straight up the first time we meet them that our purpose is to help them gain their testimony and them baptize them. If the get angry well then we know they are not prepared. This way we dont get stuck with investigators that long term dont want to commit to anything. So yesterday when we went into our lesson with Alberto we taught the Restoration and told him that we are here to help him be baptized. We were extremely bold, but we care about him and when you are bold the spirit will testify. It worked. He accpeted the idea and agreed to be baptizd July 17th. We have another appt tonight with a new investigator so we will see how it goes this time. Pres has his eye focused on this area so we have to preform. It is more fun this way too because people know why we are there and they know we are expecting something in the end, we are not just there to teach, we are there to bring people to the waters of baptism so they can make so neccesary covenants to return to the presence of our Heavenly Father.
We also found 4 more people to teach this week and one said he would invite his friend to sit in also. The work is progressing, the spirit is strong. I love the mission. I know that baptism is necessary for every single soul. Not just baptism but baptism by the proper authority into Christ's one and only church. This is that church, we are building his kingdom. Enjoy your week and look for the miracles in everything around you.
Love,
Elder Jolly
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