This week was pretty good, so our investigator Maria Soledad did not get baptized this week. When we went by on Tuesday she started bible bashing with us. It was so weird because it wasn´t like her at all. She had a little booklet of notes and a magazine from the Jehovah´s witnesses and started saying all kinds of things. It was so heart-breaking to watch her, I could see that she knew it was true, but there was something that was trying to influence her otherwise. I felt almost as if I was contending directly with one of the evil spirits that Jesus cast out in the New Testament, because it wasn´t Maria Soledad. We talked about the importance of consulting God to get our answers and not anyone else and bore testimony and left. As we were leaving she asked me if I was okay or if I was just really tired. I told her that I was just really sad. She asked why and I told her it was because we loved her and that it was hard to see her not accept happiness in her life. Her countenance changed and she promised us that she wouldn´t search anymore in her magazines or listen to her friends and that she was going to ask God.
Our next lesson we decided to teach the restoration again, but it was so hard. So we´ve discovered that Jorge, her husband is mentally ill. And he was there in that occasion, it was so funny, he started talking about random things, like how an important part of being a prophet is to have money and how money buys food and so we need money. It was so funny, but not a very condusive environment to help someone regain their testimony. It was so funny, I shared Helaman 5:12, my favorite scripture in the whole world and bore my testimony on how it has helped me that if we have our testimony built in Christ we have the promise that we won´t fall. The spirit was super strong. Afterwards, we waited for a second in silence so that things could sink in. Then Jorge said, "but sometimes when it´s dark outside we fall" and things that were just really random.
Anyways so we passed by yesterday and we decided to watch the 20 minute video of the Restoration. We started to watch it, but their DVD player would freeze every so often. We were about to give up, but Maria Soledad really wanted to watch it so we would start the movie over and fast-forward to where we were. We were all praying so hard that it would just work so that we could watch this movie with her. In the end we got through the whole video and Maria Soledad was crying. She told us that now she knows that it is true. In her prayer, she apologized to God that she doubted and that now she knew that the book of mormon was true and the Joseph Smith was a prophet. It was so cool and so powerful. This whole experience has been really cool. I think that someday Maria Soledad is going to be a great leader in the church, because Satan sure has been trying very hard to block the way for her. But she is going to get baptized the 25 of December, no important what Satan says.
Well, that is pretty much all that happened this week. Oh, I cut like 5 inches off my hair. It was too dang hot and I was sick of it, so I had my companion cut it that night. It´s not the best haircut in the world, but I´m in Chile, I don´t think it really matters.
I love you all! I´m going to send pictures next week!
Hermana Evans
No comments:
Post a Comment