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| South Jordan Patriarch : The Lifferth's! |
This week has been quite the week! On Wednesday - while in a
coordination meeting in the Visitors' Center with the Sister
missionaries of our ward - in walked my Patriarch from South
Jordan and his wife! It was so wonderful to run into them at the Mexico City Temple! We got to talk for a few minutes and he told me that he
had served in Mexico City over 45 years ago and the people
that were with him were his converts from one of the Stakes in
our mission! Wow! He told me that his first area was in San
Pedro el Chico, on of the colonies that I am working in right
now that is in our ward! What a small world!!
On Friday night we had our Stake party for the 15th of
September (Independence Day) and it was AWESOME! They went all
out! It looked like a concert outside the Stake Center! It was
great to have some investigators and converts there to enjoy a
lot of time together eating and watching some cultural dance
here from Mexico! I am pretty much Mexican now, just so y'all
know! I absolutely love this culture! And I love tacos! I
LOOOVE tacos...
Sunday was great. A few of our investigators made it to
church and loved it! My companion and I were invited by the
Stake President to the Stake Council and all of the brothers
and sisters with Stake assignments got to together and made a
missionary campaign for the Stake! It is wonderful. It's
called #ViveLaExperiencia (#LiveTheExperience) and it focuses
on encouraging all of the members to live the experience of
sharing he Gospel to friends, family, and neighbors. It is
going to be fantastic!
Yesterday we planned to paint a recent convert's house with
the Sister Missionaries but at the last minute they had to
cancel on us. Coming out of lunch with the Sisters we decided
to pray to know who else we could serve for the time we had
planned to do so. Immediately one of our investigators name's
came to my mind and after a moment my companion said her name
too so we went right away!
When we got there (and the Sisters went to a quick
appointment) we talked for about 45 minutes and she opened up
her heart to us. She explained why she hadn't been baptized
and how she really felt about everything we taught. She has
read the entire Book of Mormon and knows it's true but some
very specific things were holding her back (things that we are
absolutely going to be able to fix!).
After talking we explained to her the real reason why we
had come...SERVICE! Reluctantly she accepted and turns out she
needed help with getting some sheet metal and other materials
organized into a water-proof shed and we were able to get
EVERYTHING together in under an hour and a half with the help
of the Sister Missionaries!
The moral of the story is even when we don't know exactly
who needs our help... God does! Whenever you want
to know, just go ahead and ask him! If you ask with a real
desire to help and a little faith, He'll answer! I promise
I love this Gospel and I know it's true! Keep moving
forward, I love you all
Love,
Elder Davies
Elder Davies
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