So me and my comp have been trying to work with this family that was dropped by some earlier missionaries before us ever since I gotten to this area! We've tried every week but every time we went over there it no answer, no answer, excuses and excuses! but for some reason me and my comp felt like if we can just talk with the mom face to face we can start teaching this family again! So on Monday night we had them scheduled but our lesson before went over super long and we needed to go home to be able to make it on time! After the lesson Elder Englestead asked me, "do we still want to go to the Llepes family?" looking at the time I just said, "No we can just try later in the week, its too late..". Right after I said those words an uneasy feeling came into my body and as we continued to get closer and closer to the highway it got stronger. As we stopped at the red light for the entrance on the freeway a voice as loud as my companion was talking to me said,"Just go to the Llepes house, just go." Right when I heard that I made probably the most illegal turn I have ever made and we started the other way towards the Llepes house! I told my comp, "lets just go to the Llepes house." As I turned around and saw that we were definitely going to be late... doubt started coming into my mind saying "you guys are going to be late for curfew and what if they aren't even there..." but we continued on and when we got to the house there were no cars there.. Me and my comp looked at each other and I just said, "well lets go knock on the door, maybe somebody is home". We went and knocked on the door and nobody answered but just right when we were about to knock on the door again a car pulls in and guess who it was!!!! It was the whole Llepes family and the mom!!! We finally got to see the mom face to face!!!! We helped them with there groceries and talked with the mom and the mom told us,"I have actually wanted to start taking the lessons again and work towards Baptism!" I kid you not I literally almost fainted because how strong the spirit was right there and then!!! After talking for a little with her and getting a return appointment, me and my comp got in the car and were literally shocked!!! All this time we had been trying to see this family and mom for the past 6 weeks and to be able to see them especially like this was a miracle!!! This experience showed me again how much we are just instruments in the lords hands and if we follow the promptings we receive from the Holy Ghost we can have miracles happen like this more often!!! Its super hard but its something that I am striving to work on more and more and the more I do the more I see the miracles and blessing that come from it!!! It was seriously crazy but an awesome experience!
On Thursday me and Elder Englestead had time to go knocking doors so we knocked around the neighborhood! We met this guy Martin and he let us in to share our message!! Man that lessons was so good! We used the Book of Mormon so much during that lesson and that was seriously the game changer!!! I am so thankful for the Book of Mormon! It is the biggest tool that we have as missionaries and I really didn't realize how much it can change a lesson! We were able to leave him with a commitment to read the Book of Mormon and he gladly accepted and now we have a return appointment with him this upcoming week! Going along with the power of the Book of Mormon... Yesterday we wanted to go by this inactive member named Sergio! He is from Monterrey so me and him are basically brothers... lol! haha but we went in there and he was telling us how he thinks he lost his faith and doesn't really know what to do with his family! After pondering on what I wanted to say... I decided to testify with boldness and love of the Book of Mormon and how the gospel blesses families! The Holy Ghost in the room was so strong that his whole demeanor changed and tears started to form in his eyes and mine! He told us he wants to start coming back to church and reading in the Book of Mormon! We invited him to read Alma 32, a great chapter about what faith is and he gladly accepted! He told us he wants us to start coming over more often which was weird because before he was trying everything he could do to get us to leave quicker! The Holy Ghost changed him and I'm so thankful I was there to experience it!!!
This week was seriously filled with so many more miracles big and small and the spirit that I felt this week during the lessons we had was crazy! I would write more about the other miracles but just like my little brothers would say,"My hand hurts, so I'm not going to write a lot" hahaha! Definitely a week of miracles and now we have a baptism coming up this week!!! The mission is seriously the best thing ever! Shout out to my sis and bro Ana and Peter for having there son Ala'imanu Amoni Brown aka Montonz Jr! haha I love you all and hope you all have a good week!
Con Amor,
Elder Ka'ili
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Facebook lesson!
Montónz Jr
Snow so bad... Good thing I'm the driver lol
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