Hola!
Well, this week has been super awesome. I have been working really really really hard this week on loving my companion and trying to find constructive ways to help her learn. It has been a little bit of a struggle but things are starting to progress.
So this week was so awesome, oh, I already said that. But de verdad, it was full of ,miracles! So yesterday was the most awesome. So we are teaching this family called the Familia Martín. It is a super super big family that we have been teaching for a while, but the problem is that the adults that live in the house aren´t really commited, but there are lots of kids that live there too. Catalina (15), Javiera (14), Carolina (10), y Benjamin (8). Really the kids have a strong desire to get baptized but it is kind of hard since their parents don´t have that desire, but this week Catalina y Javiera went to church and they brought one of their cousins with them. It was super super awesome.
Then a few hours later we were a little bit late for an appointment but for some reason I felt like we needed to pass by a few houses of old investigators that we had records of from like two years ago. There was one lady on our list called Bernarda, we went to the house and there were people leaving we talked to them and said that we were looking for Bernarda, they acted a little bit surprised, but went to go look for Bernarda. Bernarda came to the gate and she actually didn´t even live there, but she was visiting her daughter for a few hours because she just had her hair done in the salon accross the street. Bernarda just had heart surgery and is super ready to hear a message about God. My heart was full of gratitude, only God could have put so many circumstances like that together.
So my companion had a really bad experience while trying to do our street contacts a couple days ago and it scared her a little bit and became super reluctant to do her contacts. So anyways, yesterday I encouraged her to talk with a lady in the street and this is mas o menos how the conversation went:
Hermana Ruiz: But they´re catholic.
Yo: It´s okay, our message is for everyone.
Very scared look from Hermana Ruiz, a nudge from me and she started talking to the lady.
Hermana Ruiz: What´s your name?
Lady: Why do you want to know my name?
Hermana Ruiz: We´re missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Lady: Oh yeah. I´m a Jehovah´s Witness.
Hermana Ruiz (very timidly): Our message is for everyone.
Lady: Yes I´ve studied a lot about your religion. You guys focus on the The Book of Mormon instead of the bible. But it says in Galations that anything that isn´t in the bible is maldito, so your religion and the book of mormon are maldito.
Note-I will let you guys translate the word maldito to English. But needless to say, Hermana Ruiz was dumbfounded and I was not exactly rejoicing.
I started talking to the lady after trying my best not to be super defensive and angry which is how I felt, but in the end as it says in the Book of Mormon when the anti-christs tried to argue with the prophets, she was confounded in her words. Oh Yeah! That´s what happens when you argue with a representative of Jesus Christ, so I guess that´s a little cocky. But really it was a cool experience to see how God will put the correct words in your mouth if we are righteous and we have studied.
Well, I am out of time.
Love you all!
Hermana Evans
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