We had another super awesome contact this week (like Angel Reyes however many weeks ago). But, this time, we were able to find him again after we contacted him :) His name is Jose True, and he had a lot of the same problems that Angel had. He feels like he has a ton of anger inside him and that he can't be forgiven of the things he has done. But, guess what? He can! YAY! So, we told him that and he seemed really excited! He has a daughter of 1 1/2 years and said that he also wants to try to be a better example for her so that she can be raised better. Also, when we introduced the Book of Mormon to him, he just understood it right away. He was like, "Yeah, it makes sense that God would give us more words because he loved all his children!" So, that was sweet. That was last Wednesday, 29 de agosto. We taught him for the first time on Saturday, 1 de septiembre. We taught him about the Gospel of Jesus Christ and he really liked it all. Then we invited him to be baptized and he said it was a huge commitment and he wanted to learn more first before taking such a big step. So, that was kind of sad, but he is still super interested! We have another appointment with him... Tomorrow, I think? I am not sure... But, we are going to teach him again! We wanted him to be one of the 15 baptisms, but we think he has a lot of things to go through first... He does marijuana for "medical purposes" and he has a girlfriend living with him... So. We will work on that. Speaking of the 15, as a ward and as missionaries, we have seen so many miracles happening. I don't remember if I told you this, but during the last transfer meeting we had, President Cook gave the mission a special blessing; something he has never done before. He said that with the keys that he held (because he is the mission president) he blessed the mission that everyone would have a successful transfer if they worked hard and did the correct things. Everything is all just falling into place for this 15 on 15 to happen. It's going to be SWEET! Maybe we will even get in the Liahona! That would be cool!
Our ward mission leader (who served with Hermano Hardy in Fresno) taught us a cool way to obtain referrals from members last week. So, we have been trying this out and we have seen some pretty cool stuff. We went to go teach this one lady in our area who has lots of friends to share the Gospel with. So, we did this thing (called ATM: Awaken The Members) with her in order to get a reference from her. While we were saying the final prayer before we were about to leave, she said a name of one of her other friends just popped into her head. She said that she never would have thought about this person before. So, that was a awesome milagro! We haven't received the info from her yet about her friends, but hopefully soon!
Another cool little miracle is that we have been trying to meet with this less active to get him on the road to the Melquisdec Priesthood (I can't even spell that in English or Spanish!) Anyways, we have been trying all transfer in order to meet with him. We finally got in with him on Sunday to talk about getting the priesthood. It was really cool how it all worked out. We started to ask him first about how he knew the church was true. Then why he went still. Then somehow it ended up on the sacerdocio and he said he had talked to obispo that very day about trying to get on the path to the priesthood! That was cool how that all worked out.
Then yesterday we had a super good zone meeting about just getting back to the basics. The mission is pretty old right now (mainly English) and it is going to become pretty young soon. Next transfer, there are going to be like, 20+ new missionaries. IN ENGLISH WORK. I don't even know how many in Spanish work! It's crazy. So, we had a meeting and did some practices about just getting back to the basics so that we, as older missionaries, can help the younger missionaries be even better than we are now. It was a lot of fun. Someone shared a quote from Elder Holland that I really liked too: "Missionary work is not easy because salvation is not a cheap experience." This church is a church of sacrifice. Everybody has to sacrifice something in order to become like Jesus Christ. That's the whole point in life. To become like our Brother, Jesus. To do that, we need to sacrifice our time and our efforts in further progressing the church. And what you were doing this past weekend is exactly that. Through all the flooding and mudslides that happen, you and all the other volunteers sacrificed their time and other things in order to help others. That's what life is all about. I am so glad to hear about all the volunteers that showed up! I would have loved to show up, but there are people that need my help here in San Marcos. :)
So, that's all I have for this week! I hope you all have a fantastic week!
Love, Elder Hunt
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