A new nephew!! Andrew is a good name. Congrats Julie and Brett! And
Val i love hearing your stories and your successes in France. The
work is amazing.
This week has been a crazy week filled with miracles and hard times.
So on saturday Elder Pericle and i were walking back from a visit we
had with one of our investigators and we saw this chinese guy standing
on the sidewalk with buckets and a bag full of vegetables. We started
talking to him and asked if we could help him take his vegetables to
his piso. He barely spoke any spanish and had a crazy chino accent
mixed in with the spanish so it was way hard to understand him. After
like 10 miles (or it seemed like it because the buckets were so heavy)
we got to his piso and we went inside with him. When we got inside
there was another chino and we hoped that maybe he knew more spanish
and we could talk to him... NOPE! He was even worse than the other
one haha but we found out his name was Jhung Hai or however you spell
it. Anways we tried to tell them that we were missionaries and we
pulled out a pass along card. Jhung Hai figured out what we were
talking about and he quickly ran out of the room and came running back
with a chinese Bible. He pointed to it and then to himself and said,
"Yo... Jesus... por dos años" We realized that they were christians!
We wrote down the address of the church and when it starts and invited
them to come. We didnt think anything would come out of it but then
the next day on sunday, guess who showed up to church.... Jhung Hai
with his wife!! Haha it was amazing. We sat with them and they didnt
understand anything but they could see that we were so happy that they
were there. We´re not exactly sure what we´re going to do now with
them... but we´re going to get a Book of Mormon in chinese and give it
to them.
Speaking about church, we havent been having very much success with
getting investigators to church lately and this last sunday we really
wanted to have a lot of people to show up. Saturday night we
specifically prayed that we would have 5 investigators show up to
church the next day. We got to church and there was only one
investigator there already, Andrés, who comes to church every sunday.
Then right before sacrament meeting started another investigator,
Adriana, walked in with a member. Sacrament meeting started and we
were afraid we would only have the 2 investigators there. But then,
Danny, another investigator walked in and right after him, was Jhung
Hai and his wife that we had met the day before. We had exactly 5
investigators at church. Heavenly Father always hears and answers our
prayers.
This week we met a man in the street who is homeless and has no job,
named Dayo. He is from Nigeria and is about 30 years old. He has no
family here and he barely speaks any spanish. We set up a visit with
him on thursday at the University but didnt really think anything
would come out of it. We got to the University and there he was
sitting on a bench. We talked to him about the restoration and told
him that he can know for himself if these things are true. We asked
him that when he knows these things to be true if he would be baptized
and he said yes! Friday and saturday we met with him again and taught
him more. His date to be baptized was September 10th but he didnt
show up to church yesterday for some reason so we have to push it back
to September 17th. He doesnt have a phone or a house so we´re trying
to find him again but we know the Lord will guide us to find him. He
is definitely an elegido.
Our baptismal date with Mami was on 10th also but she left this
weekend again to go to Barcelona. She had the same excuse last
weekend and we dont know why she goes there but we have to push her
date back to the 17th. We tried to get with her every day this week
and have a visit but she fired us 4 times and we were only able to
meet with her once. We´re working hard with her and trying to help
her progress but we´re afraid that she´s going to keep cancelling our
visits. We´ll see what happens this week.
Love you fam. I´ll talk to you all next week!
Elder Reeves
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