Dear Familia,
We too got to see the Christmas devotional, however, we
were out teaching just before and got to the stake center late (we are the
furthest except for one companionship) just in time to catch from 8:30 forward.
It was inspiring and definitely a golden opportunity to bring investigators and
less actives to see it.
This week we did a work visit for the afternoon on Friday
and Elder H came to my area. Yes, Elder Hthat Kolby knew in the
CCM in Mexico. He as well as Elder F and Elder T are in my zone and
well, with three of us from Washington, there´s quite a bit to joke about.
Elder H has the same time as Kolby does obviously, and it was a good
visit to have with the branch council and also a couple of lessons to people
that we haven´t been able to teach in a while. We taught this lady that we have
been teaching for a while, but she just doesn´t seem to want to make decisions.
She has a boyfriend who is a trucker, and he comes into town maybe once a week
or every two weeks, and obviously she can´t get baptized if that´s happening.
She has a super strong desire to be baptized, she´s reading the book of Mormon
actively, she hasn´t come to church in a couple of weeks because he has been in
town on Sunday for some weeks. He´s from a different church and honestly I
don´t think I´ve met another adult as childish as him. He says that he can´t
get married with her because that´s a lot of work, he sometimes makes up
sicknesses while he´s on the road so she will send him money and worry about
him, when she calls about what we are teaching her, he says that she´s only
doing it because we are two young men (she’s around 55). Well, they fought over
the phone again the other day and on top of that, her daughter who is 19 ran
away leaving her two year old son behind so that she could do what she wants,
drinking and hanging out with a bunch of questionable men. We testified
strongly that all of these things come from not keeping the law of chastity in
the first place, but it still doesn´t seem to have gotten to her. I just don´t
know why people don´t understand that keeping the commandments is the only way
that they are ever going to find happiness. Well, that´s kind of been the theme
for this week, admonishing and warning people of the consequences of sin. We
are still working with R and L, they should be getting married this weekend
and then baptized the next week hopefully.
I love you all, sorry for the short week, but I had to
devirus my companions USB and do a few other informes for the #HeistheGift
campaign. Hopefully next week it´ll calm down a bit. Next week, I´ll try to
tell you when I will be calling so we can coordinate with Kolby.
Love,
Elder Nelson
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