Wow, what a week we had. It
was a great week! We had lots of highlight lessons and experiences! I
love my companion, guys :) Haha, he's such a great guy and we work
really well together. Anyways, on to the highlights:
We
are visiting an incomplete family. C., the dad, isn't a member and
neither are his kids but Y. is a member. She has been inactive for a
very long time but we started visiting her a few months back. Not much
happened because C. wasn't very interested and neither were their
kids and Y. was just having a difficult time trying to do things
herself with no support. So update, Y. is currently in the hospital
until her baby comes, C. is MR. MOM and is having a tough time,
their daughter B. is having a tough time without her mom, and their
youngest son M. is missing Y. SO, the father has really started to
get involved. He's praying, meeting with us, reading the scriptures in
lessons, and he said that this week he's going to try and round up
everyone to go to church :) We had a great lesson with him last night
with President S., first counselor in the stake presidency. We
talked about what's best for our families, especially in times of
crisis, and how we must have faith and repent in order to receive joy
and eternal life :) SWEET LESSON :) C. is opening up every single
time we visit him. When I first met him, he didn't even want to see us
and even tried to fight with us a little about the existence of God (he
"didn't believe" in God before). Big turn around. Also, the presidents
of the relief society and the primary went to visit Y. in the
hospital! This family is sweet!!
Next, we had a
really cool experience in church this week. We are visiting a mom and
her daughter (O., the mom, and M., the daughter). The Mom has been
to church a few times with P. and R. and everybody but the daughter
never really wanted to participate. She's 16 and never really was into
the whole "church/religion" thing. But then, P. and J. started
getting on her saying she should go to church and hang out with some of
the YW there. She finally decided to go and so two weeks ago we had
F. (the girl who can't get baptized because her parents wouldn't
let her) go with her to the classes. Then this week, J. went and
picked up M. for church. It was sweet because right after
sacrament meeting, F. looked over right before going to class and
went right over to say hi to M. and to take her to class. They are
good friends!!! F. is practically a member :) Right after church
we looked out into the hall and there was M., F. and other
YW all laughing and having fun! It was really, really cool :D We are
going to invite her and her mom to be baptized for a specific date :)
We
also visited with a family, the G. family. They received
missionaries like two years ago but we decided to revisit them and see
what's up. We had a lesson in which we talked about the Plan of
Salvation. It was a little rough at the start because they were like,
"We are believers, we are Catholic. We don't feel like it's necessary to
go to church or to do anything like that. Plus we were baptized already,
why would we be baptized again?" Anyways, it was pretty rough and I was
starting to feel like this family wouldn't progress. Then, we started
just asking them questions and it started changing the whole spirit and
direction of the lesson. We finally ended by expressing that if we don't
fulfill one commandment, we are in trouble and unless we are cleansed we
are sunk. The wife, whom has ALWAYS turned down the invitation to go to
church, said, "Well, I'm going to go to church next week." The dad and
the daughter also committed. It was interesting how everything changed.
Questions are powerful and they help with the conversion. Hopefully this
family will really progress now :D
Well,
that's all folks! I love you all, I'm working hard, I'm being obedient,
I'm being converted, and I'm torn about leaving Chile in a few months.
I'm excited, but I'm also sad. I suppose that goes with the territory of
change!
Love,
Elder Adam Bushman
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