So transfers went great and everyone got settled in well to their new apartments and areas and what not. Some of the new missionaries here in the zone are stoked, and some are not so stoked. We're working with them though. MLC was this week which was awesome. We we learned a lot about miracles and what a miracle is. The main focus that prepared us most for ZTM was the training we received from the assistants on commitments. It was really good and definatly something we needed.
We went on splits this past week with Nate Vandermark. He's getting ready to go on his mission in July. He got called to the Semara Russia mission. he's so awesome. We took him out knocking with us and we found a new investigator with him. It was great. That same investigator we taught on Saturday and the lesson went really well. he didn't come to church though.
Our zone training meeting went super well on Friday. People were crying so that's gotta say something. It was great and the spirit was there. My testimony was strengthened a lot as I taught. We did part of a training on sharing miracles and it helped me realize just how amazing a mission I've had. I may not have baptized a whole bunch of people, but I know that the Lord has used me help change people's lives everyday, no matter how small of a change that was. It was so cool. The power of remembering is essential in the conversion process. We learn that from Moroni 10:3 when Moroni tells us to "remember." Remembering causes us to recognize the goodness and mercy of God and that will open our hearts to the spirit, and that's what happened during ZTM. It was so cool!
We also started to teach a 12 year old girl this week named Lexi. She is awesome and has been taught before. She has a testimony of the church and the book of mormon and everything, however, her less active mother isn't supportive at all. It's so sad. I've run into so many situations like this on the mission. The mother is a convert, but fell away from the church. She is very iffy on letting Lexi get baptized, and even if she did get baptized, she doesn't live in the most conducive conditions to the gospel. Her brother always has friends over and they are always smoking and doing drugs and what not. The dad left them. The mom just had a baby. Things are just crazy over there. We did help them clear out their side yard full o trash, but the mom didn't even seem like she wanted us there. She said we could help though and we did for about an hour and then taught Lexi and her friend. Hopefully we can get something to happen their, but it will take a miracle.
Speaking of miracles. Friday night we planned to knock a street and we knocked right into a home of some less active members. The members weren't there, but their son was and he told us that he had grown up in the church, but isn't a member. He said he was just staying with his parents for a couple days, because he's got some problems in his marriage. He told us that seeing us and talking with us was exactly what he needed. I was then able to bear testimony that I knew that god led us here specifically for him to hear us. I then shared a scripture with him and we prayed since he was just heading out. He told us that he knew the gospel was true. We're going back this week. It was so cool!
Saturday morning we had an interesting time. We talked with a potential who dropped us but reffered us to their neighbor downstairs. We knocked on the door and when it opened I shuddered. I saw a big purple shirt with Masters College on it. He invited us in and had us take a seat. I was thinking oh crap I flippin hate bashes. We sat down and said a prayer and the guy tried to act like he didn't remember what we shared, but we got it out of him that he did. He basically taught us the first lesson and we were like yep that's what we share and then we asked him to pray about the book of mormon and he said that he felt that that's wrong. He then whipped out his bible and his wife came and sat down and they told us that they were both Greek and Hebrew majors. He tried to show us that there couldn't be any more scripture or revelation. We then showed him some scriptures. It was interesting though. There actually wasn't any contention. The spirit was there. I felt it and I know my companion felt it. Eventually we told him that nothing about what we say or share will make sense until he prays about it. He then got frustrated and told us that we're a cult and that he would pray for us and what not. It was interesting though, because I knew we needed to be there and both of us bore porewful testimony, to which he could say nothing. He told us before we left that his whole goal with meeting with us was to discourage us from doing what we were doing. In fact, the conversation we had, made me want to work harder! I felt the spirit and I told him that. We then left. It was an interesting situation, but it was the most edifying bash I've been in.
We also had an investigator come to church! It was Denise. She had a real problem with it though. She hated the fact that Relief Society and Priesthood split and that women can't hold the priesthood. She told us that we were so 1940's and that its 2015 and that women do what men do know. She got contentious with one of the members which wasn't good. We told her that next week she could come into priesthood if she really wants to, just to see that they're not learning anything different. She doesn't have a testimony yet, but she is open and she is reading. We don't think she's reading with the right intentions though. Our next lesson is going to be all about how she can resolve this issue by knowing if the Book of Mormon is true, and then we're going to go over the Family proclamtion with her. It'll bee good.
Well there ya have it! Love yall!
Elder nelson
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