Week 4
Wow I feel like I was just here three days ago! This week has gone by supper fast! This week was also my one month mark! Whoopee for me:) I'm stating to get into this routine and I'm getting pretty comfortable with it. At first it was supper difficult to me to open up and try new things or to knock on strange doors and talk to people I had never met before and talk to them about religion, but it's getting easier to get myself to do uncomfortable things. Contacting in stores or in random places is still tricky for me though.
Wow I feel like I was just here three days ago! This week has gone by supper fast! This week was also my one month mark! Whoopee for me:) I'm stating to get into this routine and I'm getting pretty comfortable with it. At first it was supper difficult to me to open up and try new things or to knock on strange doors and talk to people I had never met before and talk to them about religion, but it's getting easier to get myself to do uncomfortable things. Contacting in stores or in random places is still tricky for me though.
This week was full of ups and downs. I'll start with the downers first and then I'll talk about the ups. So the biggest downer actually happened yesterday during my little Spanish Sunday school class. Alejandro one of our resent investigators who comes to church
regularly decided to speak his truth during our prophets lesson. It was just all pretty random because it was all during a discussion about how we can know for ourselves if a person was a true prophet. He just raised his hand and told Hermana Garlitz and I that this was
going to be his last day in church because he had decided to return to his Catholic Church where he was comfortable. This was all very shocking to us because our discussions with him were going great and he was keeping his commitments and was reading the Book or Mormon and was feeling the spirit. In other words he knew that the Book was scripture but was not willing to leaving his comfortable life of ignorance. Of course we didn't think of this at first because his excuse had been that all churches were good and that as long as you follow God you would be saved. So my automatic response would be the importance of the restoration of the priesthood and the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon but that wasn't what he was concerned with. From the very beginning he was very worried about the commandments and the more Hna Garlitz and I thought about it the more we knew that his concern was deeper than he was letting on. Long story short Hermano Zaragoza, Alejandro's friend and co-worker who introduced us to him and brings Alejandro to all the activities and sits in on the discussions, told us some background about Alejandro that solidified our theory. Our next step is to teach him the commandments and to make him understand the blessing that come from knowing the truth. As I think of this I think of a scripture, "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" (John 8:32). So true not only for this situation but for a lot of other things too. Anyways this whole Alejandro bummed us all day yesterday.
Enough of the sad stuff! Have I told you guys about Mayfield yet? We'll if I haven't Mayfield is where we go on the weekends or in other words Mayfield is the promise land. There are more Hispanics there in a block than in almost all Paducah. So interesting fact: Hna Garlitz and I had to drive to Zone Conference this week which means that it killed our miles and we had to walk everywhere in Mayfield. It wasn't so bad though because Mayfield is really small and walking is a great way to talk to people taking a walk on the weekend. The super awesome thing is that it pretty much rained all weekend and so half the fun was being soaking wet for most of the day. Mayfield is always super busy, we talk to and teach people all day long because we spend less time finding people to talk. My favorite lesson this week was with a sweet family that includes five kids and their parents Myra and Alfredo. We taught them the restoration and I got the chance to share my testimony about the Book of Mormon. I felt the spirit so strong and I knew that they had felt it too. In the end they both asked us for a copy of the Boom of Mormon and promised to read it and invited us to come back anytime. It was truly amazing! We'll is this all for this week I hope you are all doing good! This was a really busy week for mail I was so happy to hear from new people and surprised to hear from others. In all I love hearing from you guys to keep it comin:)
Until next week,
Hermana Orellana
regularly decided to speak his truth during our prophets lesson. It was just all pretty random because it was all during a discussion about how we can know for ourselves if a person was a true prophet. He just raised his hand and told Hermana Garlitz and I that this was
going to be his last day in church because he had decided to return to his Catholic Church where he was comfortable. This was all very shocking to us because our discussions with him were going great and he was keeping his commitments and was reading the Book or Mormon and was feeling the spirit. In other words he knew that the Book was scripture but was not willing to leaving his comfortable life of ignorance. Of course we didn't think of this at first because his excuse had been that all churches were good and that as long as you follow God you would be saved. So my automatic response would be the importance of the restoration of the priesthood and the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon but that wasn't what he was concerned with. From the very beginning he was very worried about the commandments and the more Hna Garlitz and I thought about it the more we knew that his concern was deeper than he was letting on. Long story short Hermano Zaragoza, Alejandro's friend and co-worker who introduced us to him and brings Alejandro to all the activities and sits in on the discussions, told us some background about Alejandro that solidified our theory. Our next step is to teach him the commandments and to make him understand the blessing that come from knowing the truth. As I think of this I think of a scripture, "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" (John 8:32). So true not only for this situation but for a lot of other things too. Anyways this whole Alejandro bummed us all day yesterday.
Enough of the sad stuff! Have I told you guys about Mayfield yet? We'll if I haven't Mayfield is where we go on the weekends or in other words Mayfield is the promise land. There are more Hispanics there in a block than in almost all Paducah. So interesting fact: Hna Garlitz and I had to drive to Zone Conference this week which means that it killed our miles and we had to walk everywhere in Mayfield. It wasn't so bad though because Mayfield is really small and walking is a great way to talk to people taking a walk on the weekend. The super awesome thing is that it pretty much rained all weekend and so half the fun was being soaking wet for most of the day. Mayfield is always super busy, we talk to and teach people all day long because we spend less time finding people to talk. My favorite lesson this week was with a sweet family that includes five kids and their parents Myra and Alfredo. We taught them the restoration and I got the chance to share my testimony about the Book of Mormon. I felt the spirit so strong and I knew that they had felt it too. In the end they both asked us for a copy of the Boom of Mormon and promised to read it and invited us to come back anytime. It was truly amazing! We'll is this all for this week I hope you are all doing good! This was a really busy week for mail I was so happy to hear from new people and surprised to hear from others. In all I love hearing from you guys to keep it comin:)
Until next week,
Hermana Orellana
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