Hey Everyone,
It's been quite
another eventful week again here in North Lomita. Probably one of the most
successful weeks I've had in the mission. On church on Sunday, we had about 8
investigators at church which is the most I've had at church before. The
members in the ward have been great in befriending everyone and having great
lessons at church. We had a break through with Cynthia's family as she and all
her 5 kids came again plus Nicole and their mother! Which I was super surprised
to see her mom there. We had a lesson at Cynthia's house and her mom was
visiting. As we were reading 1 Nephi 10 with Cynthia, she came in and started
listening. She's quite an interesting lady who has had, I guess you could say,
an "exciting" lifestyle. Cynthia would always say "she needs God
more than I do, and that's saying something." She had a lot of questions
about the church, so we gave her a summary of what we believe and she seemed
very stunned as we said it. She said that she was coming to church, but Cynthia
didn't believe her. They ended up coming to Gospel Principles and Nicole and
the mom said the prayers. It was very surprising. It was an inspired lesson at
church because our ward mission leader Bishop Madrid taught about eternal
marriage, because Cynthia, Nicole and their mom need to get married. I finally
think it's gotten them to understand. Hopefully we can make wedding plans this
week. Maria Garcia also came to church, the referral we received from
mormon.org, and we didn't know if she would be able to ask off work, but she
did. Hermano Rodriguez got her a ride to sacrament and the relief society
president gave her a ride to work afterwards, she's being befriended very well.
I had 2 really good lessons this week. One with Jose Morales who is the old man
with one leg. This week he was concerned about his health because he went to
the doctors to test if he had cancer in his esophagus. While we were reading
the Book of Mormon, the doctors called and said he didn't have it. He looked so
relieved, and he felts grateful for the chance to talk with us. He feels God is
blessing him for listening. He would have come to church if he didn't have an
open house because he's selling his house. Lastly, we had a lesson with the
Castillo Family. The mom and their 2 kids are members, but not the father
Miguel. We had splits and Elder Benhke came in to my area. He has an awesome
story as he's a convert as of 2 years ago. He's from Minnesota, but the
missionaries taught him when he was in Utah for school. He has the strongest
testimony I've ever heard in my life of Christ and the Book of Mormon. Anyway
we had a family home evening with them, but at first Miguel didn't come out of
the room for the lesson. I was praying at the beginning that he would come out
because the goal was to initially teach him. While we were playing a game,
Miguel came out of his room and starting listening. Their came a point in the
lesson when Elder Benhke taught the atonement super powerfully and Miguel
really felt the spirit testify to him that it was true. Elder Benkhe then
invited him to be baptized, and he accepted. His wife got a little emotional
because she's been working on him to be baptized for a while. It was cool too
because he invited him to be baptized on Feb 17 which happened to be his
birthday. WHAT! He says he will try because he's got some bad habits he needs
to get rid of. It was by far the best lesson I've been a part of. I have a
testimony that people can change when we strive to help them and invite them to
do so.
Os amo tanto
Elder Marrott
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