Hey Family :) Well I read the letter from Mallory and
that is so crazy... I still can't believe that she is already coming home from her mission in the Philippines. Time
really does fly! I can't believe that I have 10 months here either. I feel like
I haven't even had time to do anything really special yet (haha) but I also feel
like this is the only way of living that I have ever known.
Anyway, I had a very nice week this week! We had two
baptisms!!! It was awesome but I'll talk about that a little bit later
on.
Okay so this week I have been thinking a lot about the people
we have been teaching and the ways that the Church can help them in their
lives. Like its obvious that the Church of Jesus Christ will help everyone,
however, every person is their own self and they have different needs. I have been
trying to put myself in their shoes and see what type of help the Church can
bring them right now in their lives. For instance we had our baptism last
Saturday... Investigator G. He is 12 and he's a super happy kid but the part of the
city where he lives is very dangerous with a lot of ghettos so he can't
hang around with kids outside of his house because they are all smoking and
drinking. He loves the Church for the atmosphere that he can fiind there and he
loves going to activities, I truly feel like he will stay in the Church and be
able to gain a very stong testimony of the Church.
The feeling you get as a
missionary when you find someone that can just fall in love with going to
church and learning about Christ is something that is truly hard to express.
And it's what pushes me to keep finding others to teach and to help :) We have
been so blessed here in Malvinas to be able to be baptizing every week! I am so
happy and grateful for that and I feel like my duty right now with these people
that God has placed in front of us is to truly convert them, to find the key
from the Church that will help them to stay in this religion for the rest of
their lives.
We had the two baptisms on Saturday and it was
awesome! They are two brothers, one is Investigator A. and the other is Investigator D. One
is 15 and the other is 8 and they are so awesome! They love listening to us, reading
the Book of Mormon and we are so excited to go to their baptism! We were
blessed to have them accompanied by their parents who are super sweet! I hope
to be able to work with them later on too :)
Now the funny part is is that we
have been teaching pretty much their entire street.... like all of their friends
and family that live by them have been listening to our lessons so every time
we go to teach them, they all bring out chairs and sit around us to listen so we
teach about ten people at a time every time we go over there and they all go to
church together as a group! They are all so wonderful and
if everything goes right this Saturday we will have the privilege to baptize 4
of them :)
Okay and now I wanted to share another interesting
miracle that happened this last week. So I was in an interchange with another
missionary and his name is Elder Vasquez and so we were walking around before
lunch and we were talking to everybody in the streets and we came across an
older man who was sitting outside in a chair and so I went up and said hello
and right as I was saying hello there were about three older ladies inside the
house that started yelling, "Hey come in come in" which at first
caught me super off gaurd and I didn't know what to do. Then they said, "Hey
come sit down for a bit in here and talk to my Dad (the older man outside) so I
figured nothing could hurt by just going and and talking to them, so we went in
and started a conversation. Well, it turns out that over like 30 years ago the
missionaries had talked to them and they remembered them that's why they called
us in. So we started talking about the things that they taught them and they have never gone to church and only talked to the missionaries one
time. We then invited them to church and also to be baptized and they accepted
both of the invitations! They will be coming to church this next Sunday and are
preparing to be baptized on the 13th of September! They then invited us to eat
lunch and asked us to come back to teach them more and eat lucnh again this
Tuesday... I honestly know that God prepares people for us and he just expects
us to go out of our way to say hello and then he does the rest :) They are a
wonderful family they have started reading the Book of Mormon and praying
everynight :)
So we have been pretty blessed out here!!! I know this
Church is true and I love this work!
Elder Lignell Our Recent Two Baptisms....They Are Two Brothers
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