Thomas S Monson: "The sweetest experience is acting on a prompting, then learning it was the answer to someone else's prayer."
This week has been simply amazing.
I forgot to say this last week, but We had Transfers! Im staying here with Elder Budini again:D We have a lot of good things going for us and Im excited to see what happens this week.
Well Dina gets baptised this Friday!!!!:D We're all stoked! IT's been announced in Sacrament meeting and everything.
Esteban. Wow. He is probably the most incredible investigator I've had in my entire mission. Upon arriving for the second charla, he straight up told us that he had anxiously been awaiting our arrival. Opening up to Alma 37:6-7 he began reading some of the cool things he's found. His wife says that in a week she has found a changed man. The spirit has worked so heavily on him that he reacts completely differently to situations. With that scripture in mind, he shared an experience he had the day before: A Man showed up at his house the day before. A year before, he had loaned the man money, to the which, had never been payed back. The man repaid him all that he owed, and left. Upon the man's departure, Esteban fell to his knees in embarrassment before the Lord in how poorly he had thought about the man, and much he had judged him without considering the situation of the man.
I told him of how whenever we were late waiting for someone, I would be really impatient thinking "come on, get here all ready!" My mom on the other hand would say, "I hope they're okay. I hope they didn't get in an accident or anything." Me on the other hand: "come on, get here already, we're late!!!!" Really my mother set the example for me in these moments, and taught me a similar principle.
" 6 Now ye may suppose that this is foolishness in me; butbehold I say unto you, that by small and simple things aregreat things brought to pass; and small means in manyinstances doth confound the wise.
7 And the Lord God doth work by means to bring abouthis great and eternal purposes; and by very small meansthe Lord doth confound the wise and bringeth about thesalvation of many souls."
These are the small and simple things. Embarrassment before the Lord. The words of a mother. cool things.
So now for the quote by President Monson:
We were walking to the almecen (a small store people make out of a room in their house) of some investigators, when we saw 3 people ( 2 men and a woman) struggling to carry a mattress, a bed frame, a super old tv (with a dial for channels and volume), and a few other things. Feeling impressed to help, we grabbed part of the mattress and the frame and helped carry them. The destination ended up being a tiny tarp tent at the edge of a field. Before taking off to go to those investigators with the almecen, one of the men turned to us and said, "If you ever want to share the word (what people here call the gospel) with us, you're always welcome." This was Saturday
Well we didn't think much of it, but Sunday in the evening, we found ourselves close by, without set plans, and decided to stop by and see who these people really are. When I think of the poor zoramites that were cast out of the synagogues, I now think of them. Very humble couple in every sense of the word. Well Im out of time, so long story short: Matias(the husband) had been in prison for the past almost 2 months after unknowingly buying a stolen horse and taking the blame. They had lost everything in that moment that he left: House, children (the state took their 3 kids), and more. He had just gotten out that week, and they were trying to start over. The thing is, he legally cant be outside after 8, and had been hurrying and struggling with the bed frame to make it on time to their tent (literally the size of their bed... it takes up the whole tent), when he offered a prayer of help to God. We showed up.
Sunday they had been feeling really depressed, prayed, and we showed up again. That was some pretty cool experiences.
Well I love you all so much!
Have a great week,
Elder Eliason
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My mexican Zone Leader!!!:D
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