Teaching Reflections

Most of the time, the dad (of the family I mentioned yesterday) is out of town working.  We've talked to him a couple of times before, but this week, we were able to sit down with him.  He's a big jokester, so lessons are usually pretty fun.  This time, we had a member with us as we were teaching the Restoration.  There were a ton of distractions, and I just remember I was contemplating just leaving for the night and trying it another day, but in the end, we stayed and made our way through the lesson.  At the end, we invited him to pray to know it the Joseph Smith story was true.  After he prayed, we asked him how he felt, and with a very sincere smile, he said, "Me siento bonito." or "I feel really good,"  We invited them to church and the whole family came!!!!

Hidden Members!

We found some hidden members! Those are my favorite!  They're people you run into who say, "Hey guess what? I'm a member of your church!"  The husband of one of our investigators who's preparing for baptism (Yay!!!) was one before I arrived.  The first two we ran into were two teenage boys who described their baptism as "they dip you in the water like strawberries in chocolate!"  A year in the field and this was the first time I'd ever heard baptism described así.  Then we were walking down the street on the way to another appointment when a man called out to us and asked us if we had a Book of Mormon on hand.  With the new teaching style that we're using, we don't normally carry around copies of the Book of Mormon to hand out.  But he explained that he was a member baptized in Mexico but he had gotten heavily into alcohol and was not happy.  We taught him a condensed version of the Restoration which brought him to tears, gave him a card with our information, took down his information and we're going to go back again this week!