Ok this week has been awesome. Talking to my fam was the best.
There is a bunch of members that gave me and my comp candy for Christmas which
was fun but I already have a ton of candy so I was kinda hoping for stuff like
cereal or milk (hahaha) more essential stuff than just like a bucket full of tootsie
rolls.
Anyway we got a reference this week to the this lady who we
met with last Wednesday and she was awesome. She was talking
about why she wanted to talk to us and I couldn't understand everything thing she
said but I did understand that all she wanted was to know if her son is okay.
She began to explain more about her situation and eventually she started crying
and before I knew it a couple of tears were running down my face too. I kinda felt
like an idiot because here I was crying with this lady that I really couldn't
even understand but I don't know I kinda just felt like I could feel her
pain a little and that she was just a worried mom for her son.
After the lesson I had my comp explain what happend again but much slower. So it turns out that her
son was killed about two years ago. He was running from the cops because he was
selling drugs. He climbed unto a roof of a house and accidently fell off onto a
fence and a bar pierced his leg and he was stuck there for like 2 days because he
couldn't move and no one found him. Finally someone found him and called the cops
and he was dead by the time the ambulance got him.
I now know what was troubling
this mom so much. It was a pretty cool experiance for me because it was like the
first time on the mission that the spirit helped me know how troubled someone was
without me even understanding what they were saying.
Anyway the next day I
was preparing a scripture to share with a family because me and my comp always
switch off sharing scriptures with members. The scripture was about the Holy Ghost. We had another appointment with the lady whose son had died and she had some
questions about the Holy Ghost and I actually was able to understand where the
conversation was. So I shared my scripture that I had prepared earlier to share
with the family. The scripture is about how the Holy Ghost can help us know what
to do in all things. 2 nephi 32:5 I think. It is a scripture that Austin sent me to help people which is cool.
But yeah all is good and I definitely think that
this investigator will get baptized soon as she is just ready for the gospel.
Love you all,
Elder Lignell
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