This week was swell... A lot of good things happening... This past
Wednesday I went on Trade-Offs with this fresh as missionary.. He's only
been out 3 weeks, but it was super fun! Our theme for our trade-off was
setting inspired goals... And so we set the goal of pulling 2 people
off of the street to show them the church (equivalent to tracting and
having 2 people let you in to teach)... So we were busy the whole
morning and we had little finding time... but it was getting near the
end of the day.. And we had 1 hour left to pull 2 people off.... So we
said a prayer and the moment we walked outside the Teaching Center we
saw this Japanese guy looking a bit lost so we went and talked to him..
and turns out he had heard about our Church that we teach Free English
here and wanted to learn more about it... AND... he was waiting outside
for his friend to come with him!!!.... So we talked to him and his
friend came and we showed them around church and taught them and
accomplished our goal!!!! That testified to me that God has a will....
and if we align our will with His having faith to accomplish it... it
shall be done... So it was a really cool experience especially for him
as well... a brand new missionary... and now he learned the importance
of setting goals in faith!
Now for story time... So this
Saturday J... was baptized!!! But it was so funny for real...
because he was so nervous I was just using that to my advantage hahaha,
cause obviously if you're sympathetic in this situation it's going to
make it worse... so I would just make random comments... Like we were
entering the chapel and there was a black cat... I was like "Ohhh
J... you know what that means?..." What?... "That's bad luck, maybe
we should go home!"... And he just started laughing out of nervousness
hahah. And I told him "Ohh J... did you know... last year someone died
in this baptismal font.." Hahaha. But he got over his nerves and was
fine... But it was really cool... our Elders Quorum President gave a
talk saying 13 years ago he was baptized and the missionaries were 40
minutes late so the water was freezing cold.. and he related it to
Wilford Woodruff when he was baptized... They broke open a frozen river
and he was baptized in there and he hugged the other person and said "I
don't feel the cold brother... I don't feel the cold"... And he said when
he was baptized he felt immediately warm when he went into the
water.... and the spirit of promise confirmed to him that the ordinance
was true.... And the same happened to J!!.... Before we entered the
water I read him Alma 7:15, And that was so cool because that's one of
the scriptures that helped him get over his fear... and then we actually
did what it said at the end!.... and we entered the water and it was
COLD AS!!!..... But once he was baptized and we went into the changing
room he just started laughing and hugged me and was like "I feel so
hot!!!! I'm so happy!!!!" And he got down and started doing push ups and
was just laughing and was seriously on a happy high hahaha, he even
told me he wished he never postponed his baptism because this feeling
was so incredible!.... It was such a great experience though to
witness!!!.... He's a such a good guy!
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