Wesley's birthday is October 24! If you have a minute please write him a quick note!
This last week my companion and I have were really
focusing on trying to get our investigators to go to church but we
failed. We did everything we could to get them to come. We showed up at
their house.They just cant wake up in the morning. But this week we
found a new family. They are a less active family of 3. Well they have a
17 year old daughter who is not a member but is super interested. They
have been living in the area for 8 months and they are really cool. They
have been inactive for a little over 2 years. We went and taught them Sunday
and it was super successful! They have been through a lot of hard
things. We asked them what would interrupt them from going to church
with us sunday
and they simply said that they were lazy and its hard to wake up in the
mornings. The dad took the iniciative and said ¨but nothing is
impossible, we need to go.¨ It was really cool to hear him say that.
While we were talking they recognized all the blesssings that they were
missing out on from not attending the temple and church.
So our goal for this week is bring them to the church and start teaching their daughter. They are a super cool family.
So
in total we have 3 families of investigators and 2 of them are
progressing well. And i am sure si o si that at least those 2 families
will assist church with us this sunday.
I
heard news from my old Sector. We were teaching a young guy of 25 years
named Elias. He is super cool and i have always been asking how he is
doing. He got baptized the week after we had changed. I was sad i had to
miss it. But i have heard that his family is now going to church. His
brothers have a baptism date. His parents are taking the dicussions and
believe Joseph Smith was a Prophet. Elias now has a calling in the
branch working with the missionaries. He is an awesome example to me and
i am really grateful that i got to participate in finding and teaching
him and watching him make all the changes in his life.
We
have been teaching a family.. well a couple thats living together. Here
in Chile almost no one wants to get a divorce because its so expensive.
So they just dont get married and are living in sin or they get married
and cant afford a divorce and find another partner and ..continue
living in sin. This is the case with a couple we are teaching. The guy
is a member but is married, cant afford a divorce and is living with
another girl who is not a member. It is so hard to help them to progress
with out him getting a divorce and them both getting married. We have
just continued to teach them and TRYING to bring them to church.
This
week we feel very secure with our investigators and our big focus now
is the less active members. we need to have a consistent 120 members
assisting the church or they are going to drop this ward and combine it
with another which means the church is farthur away and that means even
more less actives. So our biggest focus this week is the lessactives.
The past 4 weeks it has been between 90 and 110. We are shooting for
120+ this Sunday. We have faith that we can do it. We just need to do the work.
But
thats all this week. Sorry I havent been writing a lot. We do a lot of
stuff on P-Day and somethings only have 10 minutes to write our families
and president.
But I love you all.
-Elder Brady
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