Well I should start with transfers. I am going to be staying in Costa Mesa 4th ward and Elder Maughan is headed up north. My new companion is Elder Arévelo. He is awesome! He grew up in Florida, but his parents are from Salvador and so he is fluent in Spanish, which will help me a ton. He is our new district leader and I'm way excited to be serving with him and show him this awesome area we have. He is more quiet than most but has a lot of desire to share the gospel. It's going to be awesome to get to know him.
Elder Maughan and I really worked super hard since we figured it was our last week together and wow we were so blessed. We starting the week with lots of people dropping us and it really stunk. But every time we get dropped we seem to be able to find a lot too. So let me tell you about Jesus. We met him at church when a friend that doesn't live in our area found the ward and told him she wanted him to find the truth. He loved church and told us he was going to look for a new job so he can get Sunday's off to come to church. But a few weeks passed and we couldn't find him again. Well this Tuesday we found him and it was so awesome. We were telling him our purpose for teaching him and asked him what he was expecting from our visits. He asked us if we baptized and if he could be baptized. He was so prepared. It amazes me how when members just share little bits of testimony with their friends how much more prepared they are to hear the gospel. He also asked for a blessing as he is dealing with a divorce and not being able to see him family in Mexico. I got to give him a blessing and it was sweet how much he felt the Spirit. He wanted us to come by the next day and again during the week. We have a baptismal date set for him the 9th of March.
We also got to teach Olis a few times. We are teaching her commandments and it is awesome to see her faith through her actions to obey the commandments. When we taught her the word of wisdom she said that she drank every once in a while and had coffee or tea almost every day but that she wanted to go throw it out right then. She is making some amazing progress, but still is worried about setting a baptismal date until may-ish. This week we found a lot of people who didn't believe in God, but after teaching them at the door they said they really felt like God was there and that He loves them. It is such a precious moment to help others feel the love that our Heavenly Father has for all of us. This week we brought out this awesome young kid in our ward named Andy. He is 17 and getting ready to put him papers in after he graduates this year. He is going to be an amazing missionary. With him we found this awesome girl Rebecca who is Christian and thinks her whole family would be interested in learning more about His restored gospel. I'm excited to go teach her whole family. Another fun thing that happened was we knocked this door and then a guy was walking up the stairs next to the door so Elder Maughan starts contacting him but then the door opens so he got to teach the guy about prophets while I taught the lady at the door about the Book of Mormon and the Bible. Teaching two people at a time :) that's how we do it haha
Well it was a really fun week, but now time for some change which I am really excited for as well. I love the work. I know the church is true and that our Heavenly Father is always there for us. I know Jesus Christ is our Savior and will come again. LOVE, Elder Hyde P.S. My companion is a "tech specialist" so he has an Ipad already and I get trained and start using mine this week! So pumped :)
No comments:
Post a Comment