Oficina week 14 - Silence

CRAZY week this week. Well last week we had all the old missionaries go home and this Friday all the new missionaries are coming in. There´s only a couple of them... 17 to be exact. 13 missionaries and 2 couples. So it´s been a pretty stressful week so far and it´s just getting crazier. But it´s been nice because I´ve had an assistant with me! Haha no actually one of the zone leaders from Hospitalet, Elder Morrison, has been sick for like the last transfer and a half. They thought it was appendicitis but they weren´t sure so he just chose to wait it out instead of surgery. So President brought him into the office last week so he can rest and he´s been in a trio with Elder Krasnoseslky and I. I´ve been learning a TON from him. I´ve realized how bad of a teacher I really am. He´s really an incredible missionary. Anytime I have to do some little things in the office, i just make him do it haha it´s been nice.This week we went to visit a menos activo from the Phillippines who lives with other investigators who haven´t been progressing, but we thought we´d give it a try to see if we could have a momento clave with them. We rang their timbre and asked if Corazon, the menos activo, was there. She wasn´t there but the girl who answered was Geraldine, one of our investigators. We asked her if we could go up and talk to her for a couple minutes just to see how she was doing. She let us in and told us that she only had 5 minutes so we started right away with a prayer. We asked her how her reading was going in the Book of Mormon and she said she hadn´t even opened it. We explained to her how important the Book of Mormon is and asked why she didn´t read. She told us that she´s so comfortable in her church and she sees no need to change. Elder Morrison taught a perfect example about how Peter had to get out of his comfort zone (the boat) and show his faith to be able to walk on water. We re-invited her to pray and to put her faith in God. She then looked down to the floor and didn´t say anything. We waited for a couple of seconds for her to respond and she still didn´t say anything, and we realized that she was praying. For about 10 minutes we just sat there in silence with her bent over in her chair looking at the floor. The whole time I was praying and praying that God would touch her heart and let her feel of the truth of these things. The Spirit that was there was SO strong and everyone in the room could feel it. We finally broke the silence and asked her how she was feeling. Still she said nothing. Probably about 2 minutes later she put down the Book of Mormon that was in her hands the whole time and said something I totally wasn´t expecting... "I don´t want to do this anymore." She stood up and walked out of the room. We sat there for a little bit not really knowing what to do, so we just wrote her a note and a part to read in the Book of Mormon and then left. I know that she felt the Spirit and she knows the truth. There is no doubt in my mind that God is part of this work. He sends His Spirit to teach us and testify to His children. That silence allowed the Spirit to teach. Even though she doesn´t want to accept the truth right now, she will always remember that experience and one day will come out of her comfort zone and come to the fold of God.
Jonathan is doing so good. He understands everything we teach him and is reading and praying daily. This last Saturday we did a fast with him so that he could feel more prepared for his baptism. He LOVED it and said he didn´t even feel hungry during the fast. He has a couple of doubts and still has some work to do before the baptism, but he is so prepared. We´re still working with him for the 24th.
I love you fam. I hope you enjoy the pictures. They´re pictures from this morning taking Elder Morrison to the airport because he´s going to Ibiza (the island) to do a baptism interview. Also a picture of when I led the music for the singing for the angels (when missionaries went home).

Elder Reeves