This
week was a pretty crazy week we saw the lord helping us so much!
At the begging of the
week it was kind of sad, we had about 4 people that are really awesome that we
are teaching right now and they all live in the same area, well this week we
found out that that little corner is not our area. So we had to refer two of
them to the other missionaries. Bummer for us but good for the missionaries in
that area. The other two are just barely in our area. They live on the dividing
line!
One of the people that
we had to refer is so cool. Her name is Sister Lin. I started teaching her when
we were on splits 3 out of the 4 times. So I have really been the one teaching her and
I am pretty close and she is definitely getting baptized on November 1st but when she
first met us she told us she lived in our area... turns out that is just her
set address but right now she is living somewhere else and it is kind of far
from us. So we had to refer her. It was super sad but we met with her on Saturday and she took us out to dinner after we told her. She took
us to a buffet!! She is awesome, hopefully I am still around to go to her
baptism!
Then yesterday, Sunday, we had a super
cool experience with one of our investigators. Her name is sister Huang or her
English name is Lain and we met with her for the first time on Tuesday. She is
super hyper and crazy!!! But super nice and she always brings us drinks and
stuff. On Tuesday we taught her the plan of salvation and gave her a book of
Mormon and asked her to read every day for 10 minutes and we would call and see
where she was throughout the week! Well we ended up meeting with her on Sunday
and asked her where she was at in the Book of Mormon. She flips open the book
in the middle and says about here. My companion and I both look at each other
and she keeps flipping through and turns to Alma 10 and says oh right here!! We
about pooped our pants. Now we need to try and figure out how to teach someone
that actually did what we asked. So we start asking questions like wow you read
that far by only reading 10 minutes a day? Her response "well like 10 or
30... Maybe an hour.... I DONT KNOW I was just reading it!" We start flipping
through and she has sticky notes with questions to ask us and has marked all
the way through, from the introduction to Alma! As we went through our lesson
we would bring things up and she would talk about how she read about that and
then finish the story! It was crazy I have never had an investigator read more
than like a page let alone half the Book of Mormon in less than a week! We
ended up giving her a baptismal goal and committing her to the word of wisdom
and she accepted and is going to get baptized on the 1st of
November, as long as she comes to church!!! haha She
also said while she was reading she just started to cry and wasn’t sure why but
it felt good and she felt peaceful and just kept reading, She read Alma
8:14-15.
This week was awesome
and we saw a lot of miracles but I don’t have much time so here they are really
fast:
We contacted one guy on
the road that first completely denied us and as we talked to him and talked
about why our church was different by the end of the contact he asked us for
our number and gave us his number and told us in 2 weeks he is going to call us
to learn more!
We had a guy show up at church
that Elder Greenhalgh contacted clear back in February but he was too busy and
now has time to hear about the gospel!
And transfers were this
week and me and Elder Shelton are staying together to experience more baptisms
and miracles together!
I love you all and hope
you have a great week!
Love Elder Roberts
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