Well, it was a long and fun week at the same time. Elder Rose and I had a lot of fun trying to figure out the new area, we did manage to mark 2 Hindu´s for baptism though on the second lesson that we had with them. President Torgan said that our baptisms will increase if we use the ´soft mark´on the first lesson and the date on the second lesson. We found 2 Hindu guys and taught them. The second lesson was during Gospel Principles class. They only speak English, so we translate everything for them, but during the second hour the stake president came in and taught with me in English while Elder Rose took care of the other investigators at church. He was surprised that we would mark someone with so little knowlege about Jesus Christ so quickly, but was very suportive and was also surprised that we would mark them during church, but I figured, what better time than during church? We have them planned for the 3rd of June. He later was speaking to me and asked me how we prepared them to accept the date on the second visit, and I simply said we didn't, the Lord prepared them, because truly that is what Preach My Gospel asks us to do.
We also went out to a less active house, and our GPS wasn't working, so we had to call some members to find out where they lived. The members wouldn't give us the address because they said that we don't know the situation and will make things worse. After insisting, they finally gave us the adress with a disclaimer that we are not allowed to tell the less active that this member gave us the address. . . . . . Long story short, we were well received and they were very nice people.
The other Elders called us and told us that one of "their investigators" actually lives in our area and has been going to church for the last several weeks and wants to be baptized. So, we are going to go and talk to him tonight to see if he wants to be baptized this weekend, he just has to quit smoking and breaking the commandment of chastity with a member, but hey nothing is too hard for God.
Faith is a hard thing to learn and build. It takes faith to tell someone they need to repent in very blunt words. It takes faith to talk with someone in the street and the first day you meet them tell them they need to be baptized and invite them to do it, but then again, it took faith for God to send Jesus into the world to die for us, and it took faith for Christ to ask forgiveness for those who treated him badly and then tell the parasises and sagesies that they were corrupting the law of Moses. It took faith for Jesus to give his mom to John, in all of those examples it took other christlike attributes, but it is interesting to see that what we are asked to do is nothing compared to what Christ had to do. It is hard, but it is worth it.
with love
Elder Hope
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