This past week was really good, other than the fact that it is freezing cold and the space heater does litttle to keep us warm. We have finally started to see a little success from our finding efforts. A week ago we had a dinner apt with the Chavez family but we arrived a little early so we decided to tract a few houses. We began walking down the street looking for signs of a hispanic house. We walked down a culdesack and for some reason out of all the houses on the one street and in this circle we only knocked this one door. A lady opened the door and we began to talk. She told us of how she had never talked with the missionaries before and how she wasnt really interested. We set up an apt with her on the basis that all she had to do was listen. Friday the day of the apt came and at 6 we knocked her door. A man opened and told us Christina was not there but another lady said "let them in it is cold outside" so we entered the house and they called Christina to see when she would be arriving home from work. We had about an hour to wait until she would be home, so we began talking to the family that lived there and Christina's kids. They made us some food to eat and when the mom walked in she saw us eating dinner with the kids all laughing and having a good time (I think we earned some brownie points from her). Then we all sat down together and began the lesson. There was Christina (about 28), her son (9) her daughter (4) her sister (13) and her parents (no need to include age). We had a great lesson in which they were all involved asking question and feeling the spirit. After she told us that she would like us to come back because she likes how what we shared can help her kids. I still dont know why we knocked that door and only that door but the lord has a purpose for everything.
Second miracle, happened saturday night after a crazy long day of work and no success. It was about 7 pm and we were knocking the door of several former inv when for some reason I decided to go knock a house that we had found a few days earlier where a hispanic family was living. As we walked Elder Bolivar asked where I was going so I explained to him that we were going to knock this door again. He agreed and off we went. We knocked the door and a man about 40 years old opened the door. I shared a little message with him and asked if we could teach him more. He invited us in and asked us to share more. We talked with him for about 15 minutes about the Book of Mormon and its purpose in testifying of Christ and the restored gospel. At the end he sat there quiet and then told us how he had been waiting for us to come by. He told us of he past struggles and how God had helped him fix his life and that he decided that he needed to be baptized in this church because of it and he was just waiting for us to come find him. The experience really increased my testimony of how God really is preparing the hearts and minds of the people to recieve the message we just need to put in the effort to find them. God is always working in our lives preparing us for bigger and greater things. Sometimes the way in which he prepares us is not how we would like but we cannot see with the infinite vision that God has. We have to have the faith that everything will be ok and that it is all for our benefit.
Love,
Elder Jolly (falling asleep at the computer)
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