We had a super good week. We have been super busy and so it has been
crazy trying to get everything done. But it's worked out so far.
Last week we got a referral for a lady named Vanya. We were finally
able to actually teach her this week and she is awesome. A lot of her
family members are Mormon and she has seen how much happier they seem.
Basically right at the beginning she said that she wants to become a
member. Well she has loved everything so far and now her and her 9
year old son are getting ready to be baptized on Oct. 29th.
One thing that I have noticed is that you can usually tell if someone
is ready to here the Gospel by the way that they receive the
missionaries. It talks in Preach my Gospel about how those who are
prepared to receive the Gospel will recognize the missionaries as
servants of the Lord. Vanya is definitely a great example of that.
When we were talking about her baptism she said how she feels like
Oct. 29th was too close. Then said how she feels like after a year she
will have changed enough to get baptized. Literally all I said was
that baptism is important and we need to do it as soon as we can. Then
she just said that she trusts us and will do it whenever we want, said
if we think she is ready for it she will do it.
We also did 2 exchanges this past week. First I went over to 6th Ward
with Elder Duford. It was a pretty great day. I had to do a baptismal
interview while I was over there which was pretty fun. It was
definitely the longest interview I have done. The lady had a lot of
concerns but once those got resolved she was super excited for her
baptism. So that's good! For the second exchange I stayed here and
Elder Smith came with me. I did exchanges with him like a year ago
when he had just barely came out. So it was great to see how much he
has grown.
On Friday we went to MLC. Those are always awesome, you just get to
hear amazing trainings from President and the Assistants. And then the
next 2 days were General Conference. So for the past 3 days we have
just heard so many awesome talks and trainings. So by Sunday night we
were pretty tired. Too much revelation. Vanya actually came to one of
the sessions. She has 3 kids and a niece who live with her. And all of
them are young. Her 6 year old son actually has autism and just has a
ridiculous amount of energy. So basically he was running laps around
the chapel. But it was great, her kids were going crazy and it just
looked like a tornado had come through but she was just so focused on
the talks. It blew her mind that we had prophets and apostles today
because she had always grown up thinking that the heavens were closed.
So she was listening so intently to what they had to say.
Sometimes I feel that we don't remember how much of a blessing it is
to have living prophets and apostles. The way that Vanya focused on
what they were saying made me realize that we should all be like that.
The heavens are open and we have the chance to listen to a living
prophet of God. Que bendición.
Have a great week, love y'all!
Elder Mackay
Elder Duford and I.
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