This week was good, we've been getting more
investigators lately, and we've also put some more on baptismal date!
It's been good, our investigators want to learn more but almost all of
them have the same one problem, attending church. It's hard for them
because lot's of Hispanic people have 2-3 jobs and work on Sundays.
Elder Berrios and I were contemplating this topic, how can we help them
get to church easier?
I was reading in Doctrine and Covenants the other
day and received revelation of how to help them, and I told Elder
Berrios this too. It's hard to a solution to this type of problem for a
people with a working culture, so the spirit told me how to try and fix
it. I read the scripture that talks about people should never fear God
more than Man, because eternal punishment for disobeying his
commandments and not keeping our covenants, is worse than any punishment
we can have in this mortal life. Even though none of our investigators
have made covenants with God, they have felt the spirit and know what we
teach is true, they have told us that. They said they can't keep the
Sabbath Day Holy and attend church because of work. We've started to
make the approach of being more bold, loving, but bold when inviting
them too church. Just telling them that going to church and taking the
Sacrament is part of keeping the Sabbath Day Holy, which is a
commandment of God. If you have the desire and real intent of going to
church, then you'll go. We've tried being more bold with this invitation
and it's helped our investigators, you can tell. The Spirit meter goes
from like a 6-7 to like a 9-10 because we're being bold and loving. When
Christ taught he was always bold and loving with his teachings, never
backing down and never falling for the temptation to back out. We're
trying the same thing, we'll see how it goes!
Last Thursday
was American Thanksgiving, so we had 2 dinner appointments, the first
one at 2 pm and the second one at 6 pm. During both of those dinners, the
TV was on with some NFL games haha. I got to watch some of the Seahawks
demoltion of the 49ers, I saw Sherman's first interception! I was just
like, take that Rob Ralph and Brent Bourne (Might as well throw Tyson
Bourne in there as well) :) Haha I also saw a bit of the Eagles
annihilation of the Cowboys, so Cowboys fans must be blaming Romo again
haha. The second family we ate with was named the Jacksons, Brother
Jackson is a huge Cowboys fan. His bedroom and basement are loaded with
Cowboys stuff, like it's crazy haha. He's been a fan his whole life, and
he's fun to talk football with! He hates Colin Kapaernick just like me,
so we had a nice conversation about that!
All in all, it
was a good week and I enjoyed myself. Forgot my camera for the
Thanksgiving dinners, darn it. I'll try and get pictures with the
families I'm close with so you guys can see them too.
Thanks so much and I love you all!
Love,
Elder Strate
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