We are working with one
of our member's nephews who have been coming to church for a while now.
Another family we are
working with are pretty young. They are in their Late 20's and have two
awesome sons. He is by far the most elect investigator and he is very
normal. He reads everything we give him and his wife is hilarious. He's
had some problems with debt and is trying to solve that so he's been busy a lot
lately.
We just found a family a
couple days ago and the dad came to church yesterday. His family is very
humble and understands very well. His friend is also investigating with
him.
We have a lot more, just
not as serious. We dropped a lot of people over the past two weeks.
A lot of really good families, they just weren't acting. But, they will
be baptized in the future for sure. One thing that frustrates me is that
the men here act like their families are possessions that they have to protect
and that they can never change. So many amazing families have been found and
the men do not allow them to meet with us anymore. It does not happen a
lot, but more often than it should.
We are very busy every
day. We run around everywhere to appointments and it can get very exhausting
sometimes. I've never pushed myself so hard. Sometimes it gets too
overwhelming for me. I do not ever have time to just think. I am
always having to just deal with problems and move on. I think that one of
the keys to that is just thinking about how to help others. Tricking your
mind into what can I do to help others? Actually, thinking about that
right now makes a big difference. For this week though, we had an amazing
week in terms of growth in companionship unity and finding less-actives.
We hadn't been having a
lot of investigators coming to church. We decided to have a fast for the
work to ask the Lord that He would help the investigators understand the
importance of sacrament meeting and of acting on the message we have
shared. Our faith was tried. We worked as hard as we could
throughout the week and when Sunday rolled around we had a lot of investigators
planning on coming to church. Out of the ones that we had called only one
came, but we had 4 others come that on a weekly basis we do not usually
meet. To us, that was a miracle. The Lord works in mysterious ways
and will use our efforts to bless us in the ways that He knows will best
benefit us.
All of our investigators have been lacking their
end of the load in investigating. They are not acting. Our bishop
was going to meetings with us and had to go home. We decided to drop by a
guy that we had met with once but seemed pretty normal. We went over there and
when we got there he told us he had read the plan of salvation pamphlet twice. I
was thinking yeah right. Then he explained the entire plan. It was
so relieving for us and made our part so much easier. It was a miracle
that we had been praying for.
I love this scripture
that perfectly explains it. 24" But
behold, all things have been done in the wisdom of him
who knoweth all things." 2 Nephi 2:24
It was a great way to
grow and learn spiritually. I believe in the Lord's timing of
things. I know that He will always follow through with His
promises. We just have to believe, it's a choice.
Love, Elder Porcelli
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