June 10, 2013
Hello Family!
This week has been exciting and very
spiritual.
We started the week off by going out with one
of our Spanish members named Bro. Calix.
He loves working with the less active Spanish members. We went out
with him and he was able to get us some appointments set up for later in the
week with some less active Spanish members. We also took him to meet
Salvador our main investigator. Bro. Calix and I talked to
Salvador outside his house for a few minutes and Bro. Calix was able
to bear his testimony and tell part of his conversion story. Salvador
enjoyed meeting Bro. Calix and Bro. Calix said he would
invite him over for dinner and a lesson next week. Going out with Bro. Calix got
us off to a good start.
On Tuesday we were able to meet with a girl
named Monique. Monique is only 19 but she wants to change her life because
she is tired of her rebellious ways. We ended up teaching her at the
library which was alright. She was just
asking lots of questions that were more about our lives and how we grew
up. We did however teach a little bit of the restoration which she found
interesting. She says she could never be Mormon because we have so many
rules, but we'll help her understand that rules free us.
We also had a lesson with one of our
investigators named Tony who has every health problem imaginable. He has
been taught by the missionaries for three years but has never come to church so
we focused on getting him to church and he came!
Wednesday was the best day as far as lessons
go in the York area. We gave a blessing to this man from Texas that was
driving his truck through Pennsylvania when he all of a sudden had a heart
attack. Someone he knew was able to contact us and asked us to go give
him a blessing. It was a good experience.
Later, we taught this lady that we ran into during
our visits with Bro. Calix. She was interesting and when we walked
into her house we also met her sister and her sister’s girlfriend. That
was a little weird... The lesson went well though and we will be seeing
her again soon.
After that we went and taught a woman
named Lanzo. We found out that she
has never been back to church since she was baptized more than 10 years ago so,
we are going to start teaching her all the lessons again. She is a nice
lady and likes to have the missionaries come over but she is not a fan of
church.
The best part of the day was our lesson with
Salvador. Bro. Coy, who is a Spanish teacher for the high school, came
and taught with us. Salvador had read the whole entire restoration
pamphlet and expressed to us his thoughts about it. He told us that it
all makes sense and he loves how the church is big on families. He really
seemed to connect with Brother Coy which was good and Bro. Coy left him an
assignment to read Joseph Smith’s testimony. He said yes and then closed
with a meaningful prayer.
Nothing much happened on Thursday or
Friday. Friday we were supposed to have a lesson with Salvador again but
he canceled because he had to wash his clothes. We were bummed that everything
that night fell through but we got over it. Some other missionaries came
and stayed with us on Friday night for the big meeting with Elder Bednar the
next day. One of the missionaries that came and stayed with us was a
missionary that is waiting for his visa to Brazil. We told us all about
how visas work.
Saturday was a once in a life time
opportunity. We had Elder Bednar here with three members of the
quorum of the 70. Elder Bednar taught us for about three and a
half hours in a new and unique way of teaching. He did not give a
talk but he had us read three of his talks beforehand and he asked what our
impressions were from the talks and what we learned. He would listen
to what the missionaries had to say and then he would comment on what they
said. He then opened the last hour and a half up for questions but we
couldn't ask dumb questions like “where is the sword of Laban”. He didn't
open his scriptures once but quoted many by memory. He never said
"you know" “um” or “uh”. Everything was said or answered as a
statement or with a scripture. His visit was everything I expected and
more!
Sunday we ended up having Tony come to
church. He thought it was pretty long but he got pretty excited when an
elder in elders quorum said he was getting rid of some bug spray and lawn feed
for free. He got him some free stuff and went home happy! Haha.
Salvador didn't end up coming to church but Bro. Coy went and saw him after church
and then we stopped by later to see why he didn't make it. He told us that
he got done with work at 2:30 and was super tired and had no gas. It was
a good excuse but he really enjoyed it when Bro. Coy went over and just talked
to him. The members here are great!
Well I love you family!!!
Elder Mouritsen
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