Yeah the baptism went well. The uncle of the kids did the
baptisms. The confirmation will be Sunday, and I´m assuming it will be the
uncle as well, but maybe we´ll do them. The baptism on the 15th is still a go.
The investigator went out of town without telling us so that was annoying, but
he comes back tomorrow.
I had my first real lesson with a jehovahs witness this
week. She was a reference from another guy we were talking to. She told us she
has been studying with the JW´s for 8 months, has seen her life change, goes to
church with them every week and has activities with them and her kids. She´s
pretty far in. But we had a good lesson at first. Then we brought out the Book
of Mormon. She was interested, and then the first thing she says is "it
doesn´t say Jehovah in here very much". We really didn´t want to get into
the Jehovah=Christ thing, but she pushed us so we had to explain it. The spirit
was definitely gone, but there wasn´t much we can do. We showed her some more
verses from the bible showing that Jehovah is Christ, but she kept saying they
were out of context and stuff like that. I wanted to tell her it really didn´t
matter. The important thing was to read the book and pray. But she only said
she´d "study" it. We have another lesson with her tomorrow. We´ll see
if she lets us in, or if she brings 5 other JW´s with her.
Wednesday we did the baptismal interview for the kids. It
went well. Later we were knocking doors and we found a short little colombian
woman who was really nice and spunky. She was really closed at first and told
us she believes in absolutely nothing, but we ended up talking with her for 40
minutes and she said she wanted to learn english and teach us a little spanish,
and talk with her 20 year old son about God. We´re excited to go back. She was
really fun to be around.
Friday we did exchanges with the Elders in our district that
serve in Nerja. Nerja is a small town 90 minutes away from Málaga. It´s a huge
vacation destination and so the mission work is really hard there. But it´s a
super beautiful city and I heard the caves there are really famous. We didn´t
have time to do much there. We went to the hospital to meet with a member that
was sick. We went to give her a blessing, but we ended up opening the divider
curtain and sharing a message with the stranger in the bed next to her. We
talked to the stranger after for a while and she was super nice and gave us her
address and told us to come by when she gets out of the hospital. It was really
cool because I could tell she was the type of woman who if you talked to her on
the street she´d just tell you she was catholic and walk away rudely. But she
really enjoyed our company.
Saturday (back in Torremolinos) we went by the house of a
guy we had talked to a few days before and he let us in. I had a feeling he was
gay when we first met him, but our visit saturday confirmed it. He lived with
his boyfriend, but is super nice and wants to learn all about our church. He´s
catholic and believes in all the catholic stuff except for after the death of
all the Apostles (we were salivating when we heard that). In the middle of the
lesson he stopped us and told us one of his neighbors might be interested so he
called her and she came over. We talked about the Book of Mormon and gave them
all copies. The woman said normally she doesn't read any religious material but
she wanted to read this. And then she said "who knows, this could be what
I´ve been looking for for the past several years". Then the guy asked us
what our church thinks of gays. I tried a few times to express the idea but
couldn´t think of a good way to say it. Then he asked "like do you accept
them?" and I just said "Yeah! We except them." I kind of feel
like I deceived him a bit but I also feel like that is what the spirit wanted
me to say to him in that moment.
Then yesterday we had the baptisms. I was really nervous but
it all went well. The mom who isn´t a member was crying a ton, and the Primary
President and a lot of other woman in the ward made a super good impression and
were super friendly with her. I think she came from it with a really good
impression of the church and that she´ll get dunked soon (I hope). And the
grandpa, who before didn´t want ANYTHING from the church (his wife was a member
but when they got married he told her she couldnt go to church anymore) is
super friendly with us now and is in every lesson with his grandkids. I asked
him how he liked the baptism and his daughter (mother of the kids) said
"he´s gonna get baptized next" and he got really flustered. It was
funny. I think we´ll get him too!!
Anyway that´s the week. Transfers are next
weeeeeeek!!!!!!!!!!
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