Three Baptisms!!!!
What a fun week.
Here in Iquitos the missionaries are like walking
celebrities, most of the time we are the ones that are running the wards. For examples;
if someone wants to have a blessing to get better, or wants their child to get
baptized, or they don’t know how to give someone the gift of the spirit. WHO YA
GONNA CALL…… LOS MISIONEROS!!!
We have been doing a lot of things this week to bring up the
activeness of the ward. Yes, anyway we have been doing a lot of work trying to
get one of my wards to get active again. They have not been doing so well, but
we have seen some large achievements and improvements. We have been having a
ton of activities and trainings with the members of the ward. We have spent
these last two weeks going to the church every night so that we can train/teach
the members how to invite someone to read the Book of Mormon. We also have been training them about how to
do home teaching. This week we had a great meeting in the church on
Sunday. After church was over we had all
of the members that came hit the streets with us. We went and visited a bunch of less active
members. We had some of them promise us
that they would come back to church.
Well this week we had the opportunity to baptized 3 people. I
will write about Danilo first. You will see him in the photo of just him and me–
solos. Mauro is the man that is a super
old gentleman. Bertha is the only lady. It was really fun to teach
all of them.
Danilo is a very lonely man that needed the gospel more than
he can even imagine. One day we were just walking on the street, finding people
to teach, and we contacted him. What a great experience, he accepted to be
baptized the very first moment that we met him… two weeks later (BAM) we went
straight to the water.
Mauro is the exact same story just in a different place. We
just found him talking to different people on the street and then after
teaching him a little bit of the gospel he accepted to be baptized.
Bertha she is the best one of them all. Bertha is a single
mom of 7 children. None of her kids live with her now. She lives by herself. We received her name from
a friend of hers. After setting up a time to meet with her we found out that
she had been looking for a very long time for the true church of God. We
explained to her the message of the restoration of the gospel and what
happens? She accepts to be baptized.
YAHHHHHHH!!!
These three people were prepared by the lord to receive the
message that we have to give. I almost feel like I didn’t have to do
anything to convince them of the truthfulness of the gospel. They came
prepackaged with gift wrapping.
The work of a Zone leader is really hard. I have
been spending a ton of time thinking about how I can help the zone to be
better. I have found that the best way to teach someone any principle is showing
by example. I think that this is one of the biggest lessons that I have learned
on my mission. HE, who has taught us the most in this life, never said ¨THIS IS
WHAT you should do and this is the only way. Listen to me and I am the only
one.¨ Our Savior leads us down the right path by his example of love and
charity. He even said ¨be perfect like my father and I are perfect.¨ I think
that this is one of the lessons that if I righteously apply for the rest of my
life others with have the opportunity to grow and will find their inner
potential. Now that I think about it, I really do understand the phrase ¨Lead
by example¨. I am striving to be my best so that others will receive the
strength to carry on.
Sorry that the 49s lost this week. It is super cool that you
all have matching 49 gear. I really like all of the red. Thank you for sending all of the pictures of
the house…I like seeing the big screen. Lol
Sorry Mom if I gave you the wrong impression about not
writing me last week… I hope you don’t feel bad. I was more worried that
something had happened in the family. I know that sometimes it will be very
hard to write all of the weeks of my mission, but thank you so much, Mom, for
all of the dedication and love that you send every single week. What would I do without you?
Con amor,
Elder Harris
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