Week 94

Cool experience of the week....

This week we had a super funny lesson. We were teaching a lady that we had recently met. We were teaching the first lesson and out came all her doubts and some of them were really interesting like why did God call Joseph Smith instead of a girl? You can kind of see what type of investigator she is. Well anyway the case is that I shared the scripture from Mathew that talks about the false prophets and how we will know them by their fruits. Then the scripture says something like "and straight is the path and narrow the door that lead to eternal life" and the investigator busted up laughing. And I'm not talking about a giggle but like uncontrollably laughing. We were like "what the heck is happening here? I think shes possessed." Then once she calmed down a bit she said " its because the Jehovahs Witnesses always share that scripture. And my cousins are Jehovahs witnesses, but the thing is they are sooooooo fat they ain't never gonna enter into heaven" then she continued to laugh histarically. Ha crazy people keep the mission interesting!

Ok heres the spiritual part of my week haha. My companion and I were walking down the street one night, it was about 8:45, we have to be in our apartment at 9:30 and it takes a half an hour to get there so we were trying to get one last lesson in for the night but all our plans were falling through. As we were walking down the street I saw a lady sitting on the stairs in front of her house, she looked bummed so I waved to her and said hola, she smiled back and I felt like I should talk to her but the natural man got the best of me and I didnt do it. You all know the feeling I'm sure of it when you don't do something you know you should do. We walked like a block and a half more and I told my comp that we needed to go back. When we got to the house she had already entered and so we clapped our hands. She came out with a big smile, we chatted a bit and she let us in. She then introducced us to her whole family and they are all super cool. I'm especially excited about a girl name Marta that has already read like 10 chapters of the Book of Mormon and feels that it is true!!

Sometimes we don't follow the spirit but sometimes theres still a chance to try again.

Elder Starkey