Again the events of the week are kind of foggy, but hmmm....
We had one investigator who is filipino, and not K. start
to progress really well. Before she was kind of the sort the enjoyed eating out
with us more than listening to the message, but recently something happened
that has started accelerating things along. Probably blessings from the Lord,
which we sure have been seeing a lot of lately this Christmas season. I
definitely do not want it to stop.....
We had a pretty cool experience with K. recently.
.....we have still be going at it 100% with K. and things have turned out
pretty good. We saw a miracle on Saturday. He has been improving his life a ton
recently and really repenting, but he had a week long holiday in China planned
with a group of friends who were before a rather bad influence on him. This was
something like 6 months or more in the planning and would be his only chance to
see these friends, as they live in the Philippines. So we didn't want to tell
him it was a bad idea, and didn't really know what to do and then one of his
friends lost his passport, and it was the one whose credit card was paying for
all the others, resulting in none of his friends being able to go. Then K.,
who is awesome, decided to take his younger sister along instead, meaning he
cannot do anything dangerous or silly or wrong the entire time. We were pretty
amazed at that. So his week in China is going to prove a blessing, and not a
curse, to his progression.
With that new focus on patience, Elder M. and I went
to teach this old man on Sunday after Church. He was probably the vilest and
most lost man I have ever met, lives by himself in a massive house smoking
himself to death and getting everyone around to look after him and proud of it.
He wanted to listen to us out of curiosity, but absolutely no desire to change
his ways, or even think about it. ....but with my new found focus I was able to be calm
throughout and we left still on okay terms with him. In fact at the end I felt
kind of happy, I really felt charity towards him, telling me that the spirit
finds it a lot easier to work with people that are humble (meaning me when I am
not prideful).
Which is just one of the many lessons you can learn on your
mission.
We also did caroling and made friends with two Vietnamese
guys this week. It was kind of fun but also frustrating trying to teach people
who's Japanese is worse than mine, and have no English. But when things get
through, it is all the better. But I do desire to be endowed with a gift to
speak all languages perfectly more than ever now......
K.'s Baptism was moved a little while ago, it is still
going ahead, but not next week. However M., a Brazilian, is being baptised
next week, which will be exciting. M. is certainly a man who was prepared
by the Lord.....
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