So we have quite a few people we are working on.
Adam
is from Madagascar and we met him contacting. I asked him about his hat
and we talked a bit and he asked who we were and as soon as he saw our
tags he said "come over!" and gave us his number and address. Turns out
he has a friend in Germany (where he travels a lot for business) who is a
member and had already talked about the gospel with him and given him a
Book of Mormon in Malgasy, German, and French. COOL. So we go over for
our first real lesson with a member from Madagascar and he loves her. I
was a bit worried at first because when we walked in on his TV was some
Muslim convention and I was like oh no. Darn. But he is not! He actually
isn't super fond of their culture... But we talked about the Book of
Mormon and Soeur M asked him how he felt when he read it ( He read
weekly with his German friend until 2 Nephi 17!) He said "Good. I know
it is true. It is the word of God." WOW. So Adam is great. He was in
Germany the rest of the week, but we're seeing him this week and he wants
us to teach another Malgasy family he knows!
Alexia is doing alright. We had a lesson with a YA
and it didn't go super nice. Not bad but I think she is confused. We
wanted to talk about Priesthood and the right authority. Our YA kinda
went off on things that didn't really pertain to what we had told him we
wanted to teach. It's okay though. She is still meeting with us and
next week we plan on having another YA. She has already been baptized
Adventist and we wanted her to understand how it has to be done with
the authority directly from our Heavenly Father. So we'll see. She is so
sweet though :) And reading everything we ask her to read. And praying.
Théo is actually doing better! We went with a
different member this time and it was A LOT more controlled. We answered
his questions about Christ coming to the America's and then why God
gave us both a bible and a Book of Mormon, then it went off on Jehovah
and Elohim. They believe Jehovah is God, so that was sticky but Soeur M
looked in the back of the Book of Mormon and it explains it and he
read the scriptures in the bible about it and was kinda just like whoa
that is completely different than what I have been taught. He is a True
Jehovah's Witness though. They like proof and hard facts, they don't
rely on the spirit. He likes to verify his info by Wikipedia. We told him
that the only way he can know truth is by praying and receiving that
spiritual witness. We hope that next time instead of him asking so many
fact based questions we can focus on the spirit.
S is getting baptized! The 22 February. He
surprised us by coming to church yesterday, we had a great lesson. He is
solid. He chose his own date and he feels good about it. I asked him if
he felt ready and he said "Yeah,but don't you have to decide when I'm
ready?" And I said S! You were ready ages ago! Ha ha so he is
happy. We are happy. He is so great and I feel so blessed to have taught
him. He understands the gospel so well. He's read the whole gospel
principles book by himself! And He reads the scriptures all by himself. I
love that kid.
So those are our main progressing focuses right now. Going to be working with a couple of families soon :)
Anyway, I love you all so much and I hope you are
doing good on your New Year's goals :) This gospel is so true and I love
it. I love you! Write me letters or I'll call you a loser.
Love, Soeur Roberts
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