What a great week!Nelsa was confirmed! Ricardo got
baptized! An eterna-gator just told us he has decided to get baptized and
wants our help to prepare! ( he has a slight problem with tithing but we can
work with that) We ran into a former investigator that asked us to come by
again! And a young man named Tyreek has been wanting to get baptized for weeks
(his grandmother just wants to be there and she never comes we are planning to
baptized him on Wednesday). So the work is definitely progressing and we have
A LOT to work on. (I love when Tyler gets SO excited!)
We were able to help Ricardo get baptized. He is an incredibly humble man that has really turned to the Lord. He used to have a serious drinking problem. He realized that was wrong and that he needed help, so he found it in AA. Through AA, he found a member that also attended and through her, he found the Church. He wanted to meet with us but the people that he lived with wouldn't allow it. He decided that it was important enough that he would take time out of his work to meet with us. So we would meet him at the corner where he sold oranges and flowers and teach him, while it wasn't the ideal location, they were some of the most spiritual lessons. He had such a desire to learn and know more about how he could grow closer to God.
We did have some struggles finding new people to
teach and that means that we have to really focus on finding this week if
we want to continue being as busy as we are right now. At church yesterday we
were slightly disappointed because the only investigator to show up was the man
that was getting baptized. But one of the awesome things that happened was that
Nelsa, the sweet old Cuban lady, that we baptized last week, made some of the
most amazing comments in class about following the prophets and how having
prophets here today helps her know that God still loves his children. That was
really amazing.
This week we also spent a lot of time "above the
canal". There is a canal that runs at a diagonal across our area that has
only 2 crossings and they are very hard to get to. The canal divides the HIGH
income area from the LOW income area it is an EXTREMELY drastic line. While
it is harder to find people above the canal they tend to be way more solid and
they understand a little more about what we are talking about and can get
themselves to church.
This week was an interesting week, I learned a lot about how I am just a tool that the Lord uses, and for more difficult situations he uses a better tool. And that has become my goal to become a tool that he can use in more situations.
In my studies I have been focusing on the facets
of the Doctrine of Christ that Elder Scott left us in a Stake Conference Broadcast that we had a little while ago mixed with love like Elder Kopishke
talked about. As I did. I realized that my desires to share what I was
learning grew. It was amazing to see that these simple parts of the Doctrine
could help people so much!
STAY STRONG, PUSH ON!!
ELDER PARK
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