Things have been really good
and this week was awesome! We had some sweet miracles and we met some
new people and we had some really awesome lessons. Here are some of the
highlights:
This week Elder Deal and I went to
the temple to do an endowment session. It was really, really cool, I
loved it. We both went quite prepared. We had talked about some things
and we both did some studies and thought of some questions when we went.
The night before we went, I personally read Alma 33 and I loved that
chapter. I began to understand that truly praying and worshiping God is
in having a relationship with Him. V. 3-11 talk about how God hears our
prayers and that he answers us through the scriptures. Even though the Zoramites were thrown out of their synagogues, they still could pray and
read the scriptures. I loved verse 16 because God is so saddened when we
don't want to understand Christ's sacrifice. It makes me glad that he
wouldn't be mad at me because I am sincerely trying to understand it.
Verse 22 was great as well because it talks about how sure Alma was when
he said that Christ would come. :D Anyways, when I went to the temple, I
just understood so much better everything. A few things I learned in
the temple:
1. God loved Adam and Eve so much
that it was a big act of love that they put the cheribums and flaming
sword in front of the tree of live (that was explained even more to me
this week as I read Alma 42.
2. It truly isn't meet than man should be alone.
3. God's plan ALWAYS included the fall and the need for a Redeemer.
Anyways,
Elder Deal and I talked a lot about the things we had learned and we
have more questions for next time. I am very excited to go again and
I've been studying the scriptures with temple eyes so as to understand
and see the hints and signs and hidden references to the temple and the
ordinances therein.
This week we found some
new investigators super awesome. WE FOUND 8, which is probably the most
I've found in one week in the mission. Here they are:
F:
this is a less-active's daughter who, by invitation of him and us, went
to church two weeks ago. So we visited with her and taught her a bit of
lesson one. She's 15 and really has a great desire and she loved
church. It was interesting to see how the spirit touched her heart and
although she is pretty shy, she was able to be outgoing and make some
good friends.
H, V, S & C: Last Monday
we contacted V. and, although she said that she was catholic and
that she wasn't going to change religions, she said that we could go by
and see her son who was having some struggles. We went by on Friday
and when we got there, H., S. and C. all tried to
flee so V was like let's just sit outside...but we were like, can
we at least meet them? Haha, so we went in and introduced ourselves and
H. and V. started talking with us first. Then C.
joined and after a second invitation, S. came and we had an
AWESOME first lesson. We talked about coming unto Christ and repentance
and how we do that through prayer. We said a prayer with them as a
family and invited them to say one as a family once a day. When we left
V. was like, "You guys were sent from the Heavens." Haha, she was
really happy. :D
M: This guy is a very
learned Christian and has lots of really educated questions in regards
to the Book of Mormon and our restored gospel. It has been interesting.
He has read up until Alma in the BofM and he's been leaving us homework
and certain stuff so that's fun, haha! :D He's a cool guy and really
wants to keep meeting with us. We are just worried that he might be too
focused on learning by study instead of by faith. :S But we'll see.
J and P: These guys were cool. We talked to J one day when
we were looking for a reference. He lied to us and said that his name
was S. because he thought we were never going to come back. Well
we did a few times and we finally saw them yesterday. We talked about
getting to know God. P. is really religious and she is clearly sad
that J. isn't very believing. However, she said that it was
incredible that he was listening to us and at the end of the lesson he
agreed to pray. It was a sweet lesson because she was like come over
every day and J. really likes us! :D They are pretty darn humble
and I think they could progress fast.
We
haven't met with C, G, etc. much this week because they are
on vacation, and so is the story with many others... :)
Well that's everything folks! I'll keep you updated!
Elder Bushman
This is called "Lentejas con Chorizo"...this is a typical Chilean dish,
and I made it all by my self the other day for lunch. It was pretty good
:)
Elder Deal and I went to the temple for a session. IT WAS AWESOME!!!
This is Me, Elder Carvalho, and Elder Prens. My great-grandkid, and my grandkid :D
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