Finding with faith

8/29/16  We had a really good week this week and found a lot of new people with a lot of potential. One lady we contacted and set up a new visit with told us on the phone that she had read the pamphlet we left her and loved it and really wants to visit with us now! We also had a really good visit with Rodrigo. He had been visiting with missionaries before but because of work, he lost contact with them. We are finding a lot of new people, and hope to continue finding more. We will be doing everything in our power to make sure that these investigators can progress.

We had a good visit with Manuel this week, and they came to church!! They all made it on time and stayed for the first two hours. The kids liked Sunday school. After Sunday school, Manuel asked us where we do baptisms. We went and showed them the baptismal font, and Inma was interested. We could tell she was contemplating. We have seen a ton of progression in this family over the past few weeks, and I really think they can be ready for baptism by the end of September.

We were able to teach the word of wisdom with Eva this week. She expressed that it will be difficult, but we made it clear that nothing is impossible with the Lord on our side. She has still been very busy taking care of her father who is recovering slowly, but she calls us at least once a day to see how we are doing and to report on how she is. She is super excited for her baptism, we just need to work with her a little bit to make sure she is ready. She'll get baptized for sure though.

One thing I learned this week is the true power faith has in finding those who are prepared. Chapter 9 in Preach My Gospel talks all about developing the faith to find. We always talk about it in district and zone meetings. It seems like we are always hearing about having the faith to find, but somehow we always seem to fall into the rhythm of things and contact people just because that's what we do. That's not finding with faith. When we contact people because we are truly looking for the people who are prepared, that is when the Lord blesses us with miracles, and that is when he puts those He has prepared in our path. This week we were truly trying to find those who the Lord has prepared, and He put several of them in our path. Now the next step is to teach them with the spirit so that they can receive a witness of the truthfulness of the message we carry. 

with Elder Mambo who just left for his mission in Argentina