This
week was really interesting. We set up an appointment with a kid last
Saturday, but with much persistence, we still weren't able to get his
phone number. He was really skeptical of us because I guess he is a
Seventh Day Adventist, but not baptized into that church yet because he
still has questions. I tried SO HARD, I just kept saying come and try!
come and try! but still no phone number and the only day he had time was
for the next week on Thursday
(because of the holidays) For those of you that have served missions
you know what that usually means... they aren't coming. BUT when Thursday came around and we went to the church building (we were even a
couple minutes late because the tram was late that day) AND HE WAS
SITTING THERE WITH THE ELDERS. It was a miracle. So we started giving
him a building tour and we asked if he wanted to go into another room
but he didn't so we sat in the sacrament meeting room which is also
where the front door of the church is (it's really a complicated set-up)
and started teaching him. He had such good questions... How can there
be one true church, what do we have to do to return to Heaven...
seriously he was SO COOL. But then we gave him a Book of Mormon and
started talking about it... he didn't like it at all. He said that the
Bible was all he needed. My heart broke a little bit. At the end of a
really really really (way to long) lesson and me persistently telling
him that he will never know if he doesn't try. TRY IT. (I even started
speaking in English telling him he had to try) he finally took the Book
of Mormon and said he didn't know if he would try it and it probably
wouldn't have as much of an effect on his life as it did on ours, but he
thanked us for giving him things to think about. AND WOULDN'T SET UP
WITH US AGAIN!!!
I
was so disappointed. After the lesson I just stood for a second and
thought WHY HEAVENLY FATHER??? Why couldn't this young 18 year old boy
who we desperately need and want to be a member of the church feel what I
feel every time I even talk about the Book of Mormon? Then I remembered
what our mission president's wife told us in our last training. She
said "You cannot manufacture the elect" Either people are prepared and
ready to hear the gospel, or they aren't. Either they are going to read
the Book of Mormon or they aren't. Either they are Elect or they aren't.
And until we find the people that are truly ready, then we have to keep
looking and be patient. I have faith that God has people out there that
are soooo ready to hear the gospel. I can tell from the e-mails I get
from Michael and Desi. Now it's just my job to find them. This week we
are going crazy and we are going to find and we are going to be persistent because I believe that if we hadn't have basically begged
this guy to come and at least meet with us, he wouldn't have the Book of
Mormon right now and he wouldn't be that much closer to finding the
truth! It's gonna be a good week. We are pumped for a great week and a
great New Year! I hope that everyone else will have a wonderful week and
see the miracles that God has in store for them.
s laskou
Sestra Bruno
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