Week 82: February 12, 2018. Finding a new family.

Elder Parson sent voice recordings this week...some in Spanish.  It was great to hear his voice and hear he and his companion talk.

So this week was amazing! ME and my companion have been saying almost every day this week, God is so amazing with us! To explain this part, I would like to relate an experience.

So this week we have been really pushing to find some new investigators. We have been using many different ways to find new investigators. On Thursday and Friday, we had been doing everything to find new investigators:  contacting with members, looking for less actives and just talking to everyone. And I was so sure that we would find some news, but on those days we didn't find anyone. On Saturday, me and Elder Sorbonne were planning and we needed to find some new investigators. I was starting to get stressed but we felt that we should put our confidence in the Lord and he would help us out. We both prayed and we felt that we should contact one street in particular--we both saw it in our minds along with how we should contact people there by reading the Book of Mormon and giving out candy.

We went there and we started to touch some doors. While we were doing this, a lady put her head out the window and said in great English, "Do you speak English?"  She came down the stairs with her brother and she starts to talk to us. She had lived in the states a while ago and was super excited to talk to us. Sunday we went back and we were able to meet her family, all of whom spoke English really well. We just had them read a page of the Book of Mormon and the Spirit came in immediately. The family told us that they had been looking for many different churches but they haven't felt good in any one. We were able to relate to them the first vision and some of them had tears in their eyes. We invited them to study the Book of Mormon, come to church, and be baptized and they were really excited to find out if this is the true church.  It was such a great miracle to us that God is always willing to help us when we have faith.

I know that God lives and loves all of His children.

Have a great week

Elder Parson

My former companion, Elder Callejas

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Week 81. February 5, 2018. Brother Sanchez is baptized.

So this week was awesome!!! 

First off, we had a baptism this week which was incredible. It was amazing to see the change of Carlos Sanchez. He had been praying for a long time before his baptism to know if the Book of Mormon was true and before his baptism he got his answer. It was so incredible to see how much happiness came into his life while he lived the gospel. It was an awesome baptism service which the Stake President directed and the Bishop was able to baptize Carlos. It was probably one of the best baptism services that I have had on my mission.

 

Also we were blessed with the visit of Elder Gonzalez and it was so awesome to hear him talk. He gave us a lot of different ideas on how we can find new people using the Book of Mormon. Also, while we were sitting down with half the mission, he gave me and my comp specific advice on how to help the zone--what a blessing. 

The mission is honestly the best.  I am so blessed to be here. 

Love you all,

Elder Parson