It's been a pretty disappointing week, I guess I could say! We've been working super hard out here and we've done just about everything to try and get our investigators motivated to be baptized and to try and get them to church! And we had 0 investigators that went to church this week, so that's why it was pretty disappointing!
But, we had some great experiences this week as well! I'd probably say that my greatest experience was a little contact that I did in a taxi! So we went to a super small colony that has like maybe 20 houses and it's in the middle of Juchitan and Union Hidalgo. So anyways, we were heading back in a taxi and you know we had 6 people crammed in that baby - ha! So I started talking to the lady that was sitting next to me and I just got to know her a little bit. She told me she was going to pick her kid up from school. Just before she got out, I just simply asked her if we could visit her one day and she told me YES!!
So on Saturday we had a few appointments fall through and I told my companion that we needed to go visit Karina! Anyways, we went and right as we got there, her husband arrived home from work as well, so it turned out perfect! We taught them the restoration and we invited them to read and pray about the Book of Mormon! Then we asked the sister to say the closing prayer and her husband was like, "No. I will say it." So we told him to go ahead and say the prayer. So he said this in his prayer, "We ask thee to know if these things are true and if they're not may things go bad for these missionaries (que les vaya mal)!" We were laughing a lot about his prayer. It was super funny! It doesn't make as much sense in English, but in Spanish it was hilarious!
So something super funny. About a week ago, my companion told me I wish I would've bore my testimony in sacrament meeting last fast and testimony meeting because that would've been my last time sharing my testimony in sacrament here in Oaxaca (he goes home next week). I was like, hey, don't worry about it. You'll get your chance! So to top off the week, we got a text on Saturday about 11:45 at night. And you know it was from the 1st Counselor asking us to give a talk on Sunday! So we had a solid 30 minutes on Sunday to plan our talks, but that's the awesome thing about studying the Gospel of Jesus Christ every day - you can usually throw a talk together pretty fast! Everything turned out well and we were so thankful to be able to talk!
My companion and I were thinking about what we can do to have more baptisms here and how we could help more people come to know the truth. We couldn't figure out why our investigators weren't progressing like they should when we've been trying to do all we can to help them! Anyways, we were talking to a member of the church about this and he told us the people have their agency too! And that just hit me so hard. But I also know without a doubt that if we try as hard as we can, the Lord will bless us! Just like Elder Holland said, "We are the Church of Jesus Christ. This is the TRUTH. Why would we think this would be easy when it was NEVER easy for HIM!" I absolutely love that talk and I know that to be true!!
I love you all so dang much and I hope you all had an amazing week. Also, I want to wish you all a VERY Happy Father's Day, especially to my dad - the BEST father a son could ask for! Thank you so much for all you guys do for us!!
Elder Blake
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