P-Day was rough all of our lessons feel through. We walked a
lot and contacted a lot. While contacting a white couple walked by and I said
“BOM Dia” The woman stopped and said “Can I ask you something?” A bit stunned
to speak to someone in English, I said “Yeah” She asked where they could catch
a bus to Maptuo. I told them and they went on their merry way. I hope they made
it safely.
Tuesday started out good. We had a really good lesson with Jxxxxxx
and Lxxxx. Elder Jarvis hypnotized a chicken and they thought it was amazing
which it was pretty cool. Sadly our next lesson fell through. We kind of
expected that though today as it is “O Dia De Independencia” here in
Mozambique. So there was a lot of parting, loud music and drinking. We tried a
bit unsuccessfully to get some contacts. We cooked Kouve for lunch. We had an
interesting lesson with a man named Lxxx and his wife Lxxxxxxxxx. He, in the
end, started talking about how some churches have more power than others, and
the “stronger” ones have people that can talk directly to God. This is almost
correct. One church has power and a prophet who can talk to God. He however,
was talking about some other stuff so we will see what happens.
Obedience is so important. We are very much needing
blessings. We need to live the highest law. Not just the letter of the law,
because obviously the apostles didn’t write every little detail. So if we look
for a loop-hole, of course we will find one. But we need to truly live the
spirit of the law. “Doing what is right because it is right” as President
Thomas S. Monson said. I feel like it is the difference in the desire to be
perfectly obedient or the indifference to be “obedient enough”. Really in life,
and here on the mission, we need to make the best decisions. Not just good
ones, or better ones, but the best ones. It is a promise from God that
blessings will come with obedience.
We had a good lesson with Pxxxx and Axx. That was really
good to sit with them again. It has been quite some time. Then to finish off the
night, we sat with Cxxxxx and Axxxxx. They are awesome, but are having some
rough times in life right now. They are still continuing faithful in those
things the Lord wants them to do.
I know for this they will be very blessed. Tuesday
was officially the 1st year of missionary service. Wednesday was the
anniversary of my entrance into the MTC and the start of this whole big
adventure. I hope that in this time, I have improved and changed who I am. But
who knows I guess we will see.
Thursday was my one year mark. It was one year ago I said
bye to mom and dad and this adventure started. Thursday was certainly not a
normal day because we went to Inhambine! Man it was an awesome day out there.
To kick it all off, it was a beautiful boat right across the bay. The city is
just so dang amazing. So clean and organized. I felt like I was in California . It was a way
awesome town, super clean and nice. We had to get some documents done, the
register was super nice and got the work done super fast without any problems.
We had a super amazing lesson with a man named Mxxxxxx. He was taught once or
twice by the sisters in Maputo .
He is amazing way rich but incredibly humble. He truly is full of the true
desire to find and follow the true Church of Jesus Christ. We ate an overpriced
lunch and had another fantastic lesson with Bxxxx. His wife didn’t want to sit
with us but I still have hope that #1 there will be a next time, and #2 she
will come around. We of course got tons of awesome pictures while we were over
in Inhambaine. We finished off the day with a good less-active lesson with Fxxxxx
and gxxxx. Then we boated back over and came home.
Friday we had a good lesson with Lxxxx, Jxxxxxxxs wife. She
showed us the Certidão de Nascrmento that Jxxxxxxx was able to get out in
Massinga Thursday. Super good! They are way awesome. We went for a very needed
lesson with Rxxxxxx. It has been quite some time since we have sat with him due
to the situation with his daughter. But we sat with them and went over the Word
of Wisdom and Law of Chastity. They remembered it all very well. One of my
favorite parts of our visit with them was that we asked Yxxxx, a girl who is approximately
10 years old, to pray. Not only was she willing to pray but she had no
problems, fear or embarrassment to speak to her Father in Heaven.
Saturday was a flop. We got some contacts in the morning and
then at 10H we had a lesson . It was a first lesson with a man named Sxxxxxx.
He was a contact from Elder Jarvis. It wasn’t the best lesson. Something I’ve
found on my mission, is how important our desire is. If we really want
something it will be given to us, we will achieve it. Some lessons feel very
un-effective. Like our words come out of our mouths and bounce off the force-field
of the indifference that surrounds the ears of some people. It is because
they don’t want to know if our message is true. They don’t want to know if Gods
one true church has been restored or not here on the earth.
Sunday there were 64 people at church it was super awesome
14 of them were adult investigators. Counting children more than half of the 64
were children. We also had 4 families we were so close to having 5 but
unfortunately, Cxxxxx left Dxxx at home to take care of Yxxxx who has some kind
of wound on her leg. After church we passed by Lxxx and Lxxxxxxxx. Lxxx is so
willing and has the desire to follow. However, sadly his wife is a different
story. She actually ran away from us and our lesson. Super sad but somehow we
ended up teaching him the Law of Chastity and he is pumped for marriage. Kind
of a wild card but we are hoping maybe, just maybe it can get though to his
wife. We will see. We also passed by Jxxxxxx and Lxxxx and Cxxxxx and Axxxx and
the Rxxxxxx clan. They are all doing good and chugging along.
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