We´ve found a lot of people who have
been prepared by the Lord this week, and everything is going great!
We´ve got a lot to do now, we´re the only missionaries in this ward now,
and our area is huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge!!!! Think of like all of Castle
Rock, including Sedalia reaching to about the foot of the mountains, and
thats how big my area is now. We can only get around on foot too, so
its soooooo much fun. We take buses though when we need to, and the
members are starting to get more excited about missionary work, and are
working with us more! (Which means we get rides everywhere when we have
appointments.) Also its stopped raining, and just getting colder now!
This
past week has been awesome! We found a guy on the side of the road
selling wood,and hes digging into the church! His name is Jorge, and
hes getting his family in another city to invesstigate the church as
well, hes the happiest guy Ive met! His first language is english as
well, so my comp and I love going to visit him.
We also have
another awesome investigator named Sandra who we just started teaching
this past Saturday! Shes about 21 years old, and is studying
Criminology!!!! Exactly what I want to study when I get back! Shes also
really getting into the church, doesn´t really know anything about God
or Jesus Christ or anything, and shes loving everything we´re teaching
her! She went to church, and loved it! Im really proud of the members
too, they really befriended her while she was there and she even went to
the Christmas Program last night that the church gave!
We
also found another really cool family. We went to go visit a contact
we had named Norma, and we got there and she said that we couldn´t come
in right now cause she had a lot on her hands with stuff, and we were
about to leave when she asked if we offered prayers to people. Of
course we do, so she let us in and she started telling us about how
she´s been sick for about a month and nothing medicine wise or anything
is helping her. She also asked us to pray for her husband and brother
who have some stuff going on. We explained to her that prayer is a form
of communication between us and God, and how when we pray, we're
literally talking with our Father in Heaven and that we can ask for
blessings, find out answers to questions, give thanks for what we had,
and basically say whatever you want to say in the prayer. We then
explained the Priesthood to her, about how the Priesthood is the
Authority and Power of God given to man here on earth to bring to pass
his eternal works. Explained how basically its the Keys to the Heavens.
(Its so different explaining this in English). We told her that we
would like to give her a priesthood blessing of healing, and that this
blessing would be brought to pass according to her faith. We first
prayed with her for her brother and husband, then we gave her the
blessing, and taught the Evangelio de Jesucristo after that. We´ve met
with her several times now, and she was perfectly fine the next day we
came to see her, and now shes bringing all her family to talk with us
and we have a lot of hope for all of them now!
Gods Power
really is here on earth! We´ve been given the keys to the heavens again,
The Holy Priesthood of God! Only through his authority can baptisms be
valid in his eyes, only through his Authority can the true church of
God be led! We are so blessed to live in these days of Prophets,
Apostles, who have all the keys of the Priesthood and that we can use
this priesthood to bring about the eternal purpose of God here on
Earth!!!!
Siempre Fuerte,
Elder Pettingill
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