Hi family!
Wow I didn't know Ambria Rowland was married! Wow That's
super weird! I guess I better get used to it. You all should sign a
petition to keep them from developing the Field. Hay "there's too
many people, there needs to be another pledge. ;)" Just kidding that
is great there is a lot of good people in the ward now.
Well this week was an amazing week. We have seen
a lot of miracles this week. We worked so hard
this week. Last Monday we were contacting trying to find a house at
like 8:30 at night. We found this family of five.
We first just taught their dad Angel in the door. We went
back the next day. We taught about baptism and why it is important
and why we need it. We told him that he could be baptized in 15
days. He said that he wanted to be baptized and to be free from all
of those bad things he has done. It was really toughing to
see how great of a desire he has to be baptized. He told us that he wants
to be an example for his kids. He has three kids. Carlos (10)
Veronica (8) and Carla (3). They all have such a desire to be
baptized. The next day we talked about the Restouracion of the
Gospel. He accepted everything. He told us how he thought
it was necessary for the Church of Jesus Christ to be restored. They
all came to church yesterday and loved it. We can not wait for them
to be baptized this Sunday.
On Thursday we were running to the Church because we
had ward council and we were running super late. A taxi driver
stopped us and started crying saying that the missionaries contacted him Sunday
saying that all the missionaries were going to pass by his house but
the next day they didn't go. He started crying telling us how
we were liars and that we don't keep our promises. He said at 6:00
the missionaries were supposed to go by but never went. He told
us at 7:00 someone came and took his little boy and hit him in the
face. He said if the missionaries were there nothing would have
happened. At this point he was just crying tears streaming down
his face. At this point we were crying with him telling him it was a
mistake. That night was the night of changes and the missionaries in
that area were late. We promised him if he gave us another chance the
gospel would help him in his life. We sent this reference
telling them that they have to pass by. It was a very somber and
heart wrenching moment for us. But the Lord put us in that
exact moment so that we could find that man. walking out of the Church from
ward council and a man stopped us again. This time it was good. We
started talking and he said that the missionaries have talked to him
before. He said that he wanted to be baptized. In all 10 and a half
months I have never had someone flat out tell us "I want to be
baptized" we told him that we would baptize him this Sunday.
But first he has to "talk" to one of our companions. So we said
we would meet him at the church at 5:00 the next day. So us being all
giddy and joyful went to the church the next day. He wasn't there.
We waited for two hours. Toda villa no llego. So we went to look at
his house or where he said his house was. Didn't live there. We
found his brother that works next to the Church. He said he has no house,
that he is homeless. We couldn't find him. The next day we looked
and we looked but couldn't find him. Sunday we looked and looked....and
we found him. At 6:30 we found him. We were like hey we are
going to baptize you right now. He was "OK" so we called
everyone and everyone came. I Had a bad feeling. I didn't know what
it was but it was obviously about him. So our district leader got there
and found out that he has a problem and so we couldn't baptize him.
BUT the moral or my point to this story. I learned a lot about faith this
week. We put all we had in the Lord. We found him. But we
never doubted. But we only did this by keeping focused on the
Savior. For me it doesn't really matter that he didn't get baptized we
will just baptize him next week. But I kept thinking about Peter walking
on water. He did it. Walked towards the Savior. But what happened.
He took his eyes off the Savior to see the torment around him and he
fell. "Pedro, porque dudaste?" We can never
doubt. It is very hard. But the more faith we exercise the
more faith we will gain. Always, always we must be acting on our
faith. Faith is a basic thing. But at times is very hard to
have. I love you all so much. Thank you .
Always and Forever,
Elder Hancock
Helaman 5:12
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