Well its been a pretty good week.
We basically have been calling all of our investigators to repentance, teaching straight commandments haha, which is scary but the good thing is they’ve all accepted. 👍🏽
Other than that we had some funny stuff happen this week. We got stranded at a train station in the middle of nowhere for a little over an hour because we didn’t realize national woman’s day would effect the trains. It was fun though because there were two retired Norwegian couples there that we talked to. It was funny because at the end they asked if they could take a picture with us. We couldn’t communicate too well because they were just speaking to us in broken English. However we did commit them to talk to the next set of missionaries they run into back in Norway.
We had another funny situation of difficulty in communicating this week at the Cara’s home. They invited us over for lunch. The only problem is, they are French. The wife speaks a little bit of english and the husband speaks some Spanish but no English. So sometimes it gets complicated.. This guy is a beast though. He went from being just a regular old plumber to starting a kitchen supplies and appliances store. In the end he had two 700 square meter warehouse stores. He has now sold the business but still owns the properties. So he is quite well off. His key to success is easily notable though, he’s a hard worker. His hobby right now is translating the Book of Mormon in Spanish back into French. He was so excited to show us his Excel page where he had just under 4000 words in Spanish and French. Anyways it was a fun time with them, they were hilarious.
Carole is progressing so fast we decided to move her baptismal date up so now it is on the 24th. She is super excited. Its so funny because her whole family like loves us now. She normally talks to them on the phone like almost every day cause they all live up in England still. Anyways her son said “take them out to get Chinese food on me.” Then the next day her mom “take them out to get Mexican food on me.” They all like love us just because Carole is so much happier than she has been in a long time. She came to church yesterday and shared her story. I don’t know if you’ve seen all her facebook posts but she calls us “Carole’s little angeles.” So apparently during relief society she shared the whole story about how we knocked on her door in her lowest moment. She had come out of having hip surgery and her son had just left back to the UK. The first time we talked to her she told us she hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife because she feared it would be as hard as this life. Somehow she felt that she should invite us back though. During our first lesson she began to change. When we started she was pretty skeptical about it all. She made it clear that she wanted to continue worshipping in her own way. Then at the end of the lesson as we were explaining a little bit about the Book of Mormon we showed her the picture of Alma baptizing in the Waters of Mormon. The spirit testified to her and she began to tear up. Over the course of the past two weeks as she has learned more she has begun to glow. She went from a point of dark despair to bright happiness and willingness to learn and serve. She is the greatest example of what the gospel of Jesus Christ can do to the life of one who commits to live it.
So yeah its been a pretty awesome week. We had two investigators in church!! I know that doesn’t sound like much but here it is a big accomplishment haha. They both really enjoyed it too. So that’s always a plus :)
Well thats about it, love ya’ll!
- Élder Alex M. Childers
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