OH THE PEOPLE YOU KNOW

May 6

OH THE PEOPLE YOU KNOW

¡Hola! so this week was a great week. We have continued doing a lot of contacts like before but know we are starting to see fruits. This week one man named Guillermo let us in the door we had contacted him about 1-2 weeks ago and this week he opened the door and let us in with him his wife and two of their grandkids they are great people. The wife had had contact with the missionaries before and is really ready to make and change in her life. Guillermo is a bit more closed off but I think with time the lord will soften his heart. Also this week as we were doing contacts we had one man answer the door who was deaf. For those who don’t know I was learning for about a year before my mission sign language. When he answered he signed that he was deaf and I thought I would see what I remembered and to his surprise and mine he understood. It was great now I was really rusty but I felt a blessing from on high as I remembered enough to be able to get his name where he is from and what he believes it was so much fun. I’m excited to head back later this week and see how things go. 

The thing that was most amazing this week was an experience that we had with Octavio. He is a less active member  I don’t know if I have talked about him before but he is a man with whom I have a strong connection. He is a very black sheep (in terms of the church) he has tattoos a lot of ear rings is co living and sometimes smokes marijuana, but below all that there is a soul of gold a soul That really wants to serve god and be a faithful member of the church. I Can’t even describe all the feelings we felt yesterday talking with him. he is really in a bad state he felt like all his world was falling apart. He was stressed out of his mind and didn’t know what to do so he called us. We came we sat and talked as he put all his problems on the table and asked what he could do so we talk about the gospel and the blessings we have gotten. Then to our surprise he keep talking and as he talked he began to find his own answers he began to realize his need for the gospel without us saying a thing. all we did is confirm what he say he began to by himself realize the need to come back to church to trust god and focus on the family and on the gospel. Now how did he the clearness of mind to find those answers when for days he could not find any answers to his problems. I’m convinced its cause we shared a little bit of scripture shared testimony invited the spirit and then the spirit began to teach the spirit is who taught Octavio that day the spirit gave him the peace he needed. The spirit is like the motor we just needed to give it a kick start and then the machine ran by its self. It’s just Octavio cant yet give himself that kick start. 

I feel blessed this week that I was able to be there and see the lord work here in the sector cause so many things happened and happened only cause of him not because of our skills or our powers it was by his wisdom and power and we are but tools in his hands. 

I hope you all have a great week

-elder Harrison