Zumpango-February 9 (Well worth the wait...)
Hola,
So that really cool experience that I told you about was pretty great!! One day we were just riding our bikes through one of the neighborhoods and we saw a lady sitting on a bench in the park staring at the sunset, so we decided to contact her. She was really receptive and agreed to schedule another appointment with us. So the next lesson we visited her in her house and we invited her to pray and everything. She was really receptive again, but she is really Christain and everything and reads the Bible every day and all that. So the nest visit we were teaching about revelation through the Holy Ghost. She asked me, "Can people recieve answers to their questions through dreams?" and i was like, sure but its not always like that, some people just have small feelings from the spirit and stuff like that. And she was like, oh, because I think i got an answer in my dream.... I`m like, ok... and then she told us about how the night before we had our first visit with her she had a dream that she was eating at a table and Jesus was sitting on that table eating with her... and I was like, ok... and then she said that the night after we taught her to pray, she prayed. She told us that that night she had a dream and she described it something like, I saw a big white building and when i
entered in the building I saw a bunch of people, male and female, all dressed in white. they were all sitting on chairs waiting for something, and they were all staring at a projector screen waiting for a video, and some of the women had wedding veils..... and I was like ok.....WOW....haha we explained to her that what she saw was one of our Temples and we set a baptismal date and everything... Crazy Right?? haha, thats my great experience!! she is great, her name is Karen, and we are super excited for her!!
Entonces..... I will try and respond to all your questions: I don't have a lot of time to read all of the emails from my missionary friends and everyhing but i read yours dads tammys and all of the kids emails every week. Our other investigators have not been baptized yet but we are working on it!! I have only born my testimony in sac meeting, I haven't had the chance to talk yet! how is your talk going? We have interviews and house checks every three months i think, so like every other cycle!! and Zone conferences are every cyle. well I am glad that you are all doing great!! Its great to hear from you every week!! and sorry I`m not a fast typer, I cant type everyone every week, and I dont even have music to distract me on the computer:) Love you tons and thanks for everything mom! I ll read the talk as soon as I can! Love you!!
Elder Paynter
p.s. Remember how i bought a buzzer to cut my hair? well i cut my own hair, and yesterday i cut the hair of the son of one of our investigators!! I think i have a carreer ahead of me, jk!
Weekly Rundown
We had a pretty great week this week! This week we are preparing for another baptism!! The investigator that we are going to baptize is great!! she attended sacrament meeting the week after we met her!! and
she has been attending ever since then! I can tell that she was prepared to meet us before we met her!! Her progression has been excellent! I can`t wait for
this Saturday!! One week until I finish my
first 12 weeks here!! I`m super excited and nervous!! The time has flown by quicker than I could have imagined!!! At times i wish that it would slow down a little bit!! I read the talk Missionary Work and The
Atonement by Jeffrey R Holland this week and I was pretty amazed by what I learned!! As missionaries we have the responsibility of bringing others to come unto Christ by inviting them to follow the gospel of Jesus Christ, which includes Repentance. At times when we teach Lesson 3 we kind of skim over the repentance part, we need to remember that repentance is a requisite for Baptism. In the talk Elder Holland talks about how missionaries are to teach the Atonement to others through the Book of Mormon. Its a responsibility as well as missionaries to declare repentance to others, just like Alma, Amulek, Lehi, Mormon, Moroni, Nephi and many other prophets. I have been trying really hard lately to try and share the words of the prophets
from the Book of Mormon in our lessons. I have seen that as others read the Book of Mormon their testimonies are strengthen and the come closer and closer to Christ, and the same I have seen in my own life.
The Book of Mormon is the word of God and we can come closer to God by reading this book than by any other book!! (just like it says in the Introduction!) I love this work and I am so grateful that I am here in
Zumpango doing His work!!
