Hey Everyone, I hope everyone
is having a swell day! This week was just insane! We worked a ton, the heat was
intense, we had some ups and downs but at the end of the week we had some
miracles!
This weeks highlight goes to X. I don't believe that I've mentioned him up to this point. We got to know
him a few weeks ago through one of his friends we were teaching. We
originally just met him and invited him to church but we frequently ran into him
on the street so we began teaching him! He's very intelligent and had
already attended various faiths including that of our own. He just wants to be happy
but has the thought in his mind that he isn't able to stop some of the things that he loves to do. Well we taught him several times this week
sitting in front of the shop where he works, about faith, repentance,
the atonement. Saturday night rolled around and we had marked to teach him. His
grandmother told us that he left early that morning and hadn't seen or heard
from him all day. We made one final attempt to find him around 8:00 pm and
encountered his cousin who stalled us just long enough. He came home with
his shirt in hand around 8:20. . We reminded him of church the
following morning at 9:00 am, he said he was gonna be there. Sunday morning came
around and during Elders quorum [meeting], he entered the room! He actually enjoyed
church! He talked about how it's completely different than what he's used to, but
he noticed a warm atmosphere and genuinely good people. He told us how he just
wants to be happy, and we're striving our best to help him find that
happiness and hope. We taught him the Plan of Salvation after church and he was impressed by the doctrine and the overall logic of the plan in accordance with
the scriptures. He told us how on Saturday he went his way in to the local
Favela to [return to a bad habit] and was threatened at gun point which he said really
opened his eyes to the fragility of this life.
Other than that we are teaching
another incredible family that all of the kids went to church yesterday minus
the mom, but shes working on it. Things
should work out that they can be getting baptized here at the end of the month!
Life is awesome, the work is
hard, but there's nothing better than helping another on their way!
Love
Elder Siebers
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