Hiya! How's everyone been this week? Its been brilliant this week! So many blessing from Father in Heaven.
This week we had a Zone Conference with Elder Donaldson who is an Area 70. He pretty much rebuked us for slackin on the baptismal commitments. He challenged us to Invite people to be baptised on the first visit. I believe that I had no problem with this because I tried my best to prepare for it. That right there taught me about how important preparation is for anything. I wouldn't had been able to learn as much as I did if I didn't spiritually prepare for the conference. Elder Donaldson also spoke about the importance of the spirit in conversion. My favourite part was when he talked about how significant the Book of Mormon is in our lives. We will lose light if we don't open the Book of Mormon each day. We will be held accountable if we fail to use it correctly as well. If we continually implement the scriptures into our daily lives, we will create a more personal relationship with Heavenly Father. He also talked about prayer. He stated that the true order of prayer is as follows: To the Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, by the power of the Holy Ghost. Just think about that...
We were able to make those improvements with our investigators that we wanted to andddd...we got a baptismal date!!! We met this woman named Wendy like a month ago. We couldn't contact her so we stopped trying by. Well during splits with the Zone Leaders, Elder Dudley and Elder Morrissey went by Wendy and spoke to her again! They talked about the Book of Mormon and its role in bringing us close to Christ. She ended up giving them her personal diary to schedule in a reading assignment each day for the next month or so, and told them to come again the next day (Saturday). Well we went by, with a member, and taught he the lesson of the Restoration. She felt the spirit. She told us how her life is kinda jumbled up and she just wants to get back on track with the Lord. She really liked what we taught because it felt good and sounded familiar to her. She accepted to be baptised on 10 December!!! She had an amazing time at church yesterday as well! The ward just fellowshipped her like crazy!!!
That was pretty much the most exciting parts of the week. One of our investigators, if you can remember me talking about Ivan, took us to see one of his friends to teach! haha Referral from an investigator baby! The rest of the people we are working with had a rough week, was too hungover, just didn't feel like it, or was too scared to go to church haha But I'm happy with the one that came :) We have a lot of really good appointments set up for this week and we made it a priority to get members scheduled already to help us teach these people. It really makes a difference when you have a member teaching and bearing testimony with you!
Quick funny story of something that happened on my birthday. So we didn't have anything to do that night, so we decided to do some street contacting. We talked to this one drunk guy who had just lost his fiancee and was a complete wreck. We tried to comfort him. We even said a prayer on the street corner! He hugged us and said thank you. He then took my hand and kissed it!!! hahahaha I was like uhhhh...I felt really bad for the guy, but there wasn't much we could do. Then we went to try by someone else that wasn't in. Elder Dudley decided to make phone calls, so that left me to talk to people as they passed by. Well, after a couple of people rejecting my conversation invitations, I realised that I was standing on this dark corner where the only light flickered from this half broken street light...no wonder nobody talked to me. hahahaha
Thats it for me today. I hope everyone has a smashing week!
Godbless,
Elder Jaquish
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