We did a lot of really awesome stuff this week. We found a ton of new people to teach, got super wet, cut a lot of firewood, learned a new teaching technique, and my companion got a new toy dinosaur...(?)
We made a goal this week to find as many new investigators as possible. And we found more that ever before. We found more than two new people to teach almost every single day, through doing service, asking friends, and just talking to everybody. For example, one day we were walking down the street, trying to evade the rain that was about to come, when we saw a lady with a TON of firewood that she was taking into her house. We decided to help her. She said the usual "no no, you guys are gonna get dirty! I´m fine, honestly," but we just helped her anyway. And it´s a good thing we did, because the rain started coming down really hard while we were working. We finished it all a lot faster than she would´ve alone, and while we all got completely and utterly soaked, we saved them a ton of work. After finishing and while waiting for the rain to pass, we talked about how powerful God is that He can just send mountains and mountains of rain, and there´s literally nothing we can do to stop it...but at the same time, this all powerful being wants nothing less than the best for us. We had a really good conversation, and now they want us to come back so they can learn more.
My companion went to another area for a day this week, and I was with a my friend Elder Loaisiga for a day. But when my companion came back, he had this huge dinosaur toy that´s like a foot tall! He said he traded it with someone for one of his ties...? I was really confused but it made me laugh a lot.
We´re learning a really cool way of teaching more with the Spirit of God. Jesus said that (translated from Spanish because I don´t know it in English very well) "The light of the body is the eye, so if your eye is pure, your whole body will be full of light." It´s similar to the phrase "the eye is the window to the soul." So that means that if you have something good inside, it will show through your eyes. For the first part of my mission, I couldn´t speak Spanish confidently enough to hold eye contact with the people. But now that it´s a little more natural for me, I´m finding that making full, direct, and deliberate eye contact with someone allows them to feel that you really love them as a brother, and want the best for them. And when they realize that this love comes from God, they can feel the love that God has for them. It also makes them realize that the things that we´re saying are true, and when something is true, people can feel the peaceful and happy Spirit of God. We´re getting a lot better at asking really good questions while looking people in the eye. And we can tell that they can really feel it more too.
We´re working hard here, and finding lots of little miracles everyday.
Love you guys!
-Elder Cloward
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| My comp is such a goof :) |
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