Week who knows what in Macuspana and I'm still chillin. This week was a bad week and a good week. It was good because we set 2 more baptismal dates and found 11 more people to teach. It was bad because out of our 8 people we have in line to baptize, 0 came to church... it just shattered my entire universe.
So, the one thing that is really tough here is telling people that baptism needs to be done by the proper authority. Candi (14) and Cytlali (23) are the 2 people we set dates with this week. Both are really good girls but they don't understand the whole authority thing. We explained to them both how Christ was baptized in a certain way because it's the right way and they don't listen haha it is tough. Candi asked what makes our church true and we talked about prophets and apostles and she totally felt that it was true... then she goes "but I like my church right now". Picture how frustrated we were haha!
Maria Esther and her son Alexis are our 2 most promising at the moment, but yet again, they don't understand the authority part. We explained receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost by laying on of hands and she goes "I remember they did that when I was baptized in the catholic church". Duuuuudeeee it's so tough! They totally know it is true and wanna keep learning.
Omar and Arturo cancelled on us every day we tried to visit and it is because their family hates us. We are going to visit them with the bishop someday and he is going to share his conversion story. He was in the same situation as these boys.
The numbers show a really good week but we felt like it sucked. We are trying so hard to get people to progress and it is tough. We had a good companionship study this week and talked about Christ and how he knows EVERYTHING. He knows that we are trying our hardest to progress with these people and it hasn't been going how we want it. We have noticed that every time we study in the morning together and keep grinding and working we find people to teach. I have learned so much stuff this week and have felt the spirit strong! I love this church so much and serving here, even if it means I walk around sweating like crazy trying to find people.
Love you all!
Elder Wilde
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