It's noon for me, but who cares!
This week was much better and I was happy to see some good progress being made. More than anything, we were just finding good people because of members and other things. The biggest news comes in here:
The entire Familia Benitez was in church for sacrament meeting!!! They could only come for sacrament meeting, but we weren't even able to visit them this week, and they came anyways! I was so happy to see them, and that means that the Hno. Benitez is two more away from being an active member and seeing his son be baptized. Looks like we will be having a baptism this change! Yes!
Also, a less active sister who hasn't been able to keep active for like eight years and who has been going through such a difficult, trying time, was in church as well! That was such a special moment to be coming down from blessing the sacrament and see her walk in. Beautiful moments in the mission!
There were three really good new investigators this week:
1. Hermana Baez. She's the wife of the 2nd counselor in the Bishopric who's received missionaries so many times over the past twenty years, but never gets baptized. We had a great lesson and I think she's finally ready. She was the person who wanted us to come too, so I think that it's just the right time this time.
2. Cristian Mendoza. He's a 15 year-old who just really sincerely wants to learn more about Jesus Christ and loves how he feels when he's in the church. We want to get him with his parents, but they're less interested seeing as they were investigators two years back and didn't make it to baptism. He's great and came to church this Sunday!
3. Mario Alum. Another youth who's going through a really difficult time right now. He needs a lot of help, and also doesn't really know anything about Christ or God, so we're having some good opportunities to just teach to some really unassuming, atent students. I love it. We're hoping to be able to help out a lot in these cases and strengthen them.
Hipólito wasn't doing well at all this week. We went to his house yesterday and he was totally bed-ridden. We gave him a blessing of health and he fell asleep soon after, so I hope he's doing better. But, I think I saw some functioning glasses next to his bed. ;)
And that was more or less our week. We had a lot of amazing lessons and I just learned that we need to rely wholly upon the Lord because He will prepare those we teach and prepare us to teach them. I was really nervous coming into a few lessons, but after a bit, I just calmed down. I realized that what David said when he fought Goliath "The battle is the Lord's," applies so directly to us. And so we fought. And the Lord does not lose His battles, so we were given what was needed to fight well. It was a much better week.
I love you all! Have a wonderful week! Enjoy some pictures of our big goodbye during District Meeting! Elder Jenson is a great friend from the mission and is going home. However, the crazy guy has his Dad coming to pick him up, and so they're touring all of Paraguay and on the way back they're stopping in Cuzco, Peru, to visit Macchu Picchu. Some people!
Love,
Elder Harris
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