This week has been sooooooo good! Since our area change we have been having a hard time meeting everyone because there are so many people to see! We have about 20 less actives in our area and not just like they haven't come to church in a couple weeks, these people haven't come in YEARS. But its okay, because we're going to get them there :) We have been seeing so many miracles and I know this area change was so inspired! We met a man on wednesday that hasn't received missionaries in over four years!!! But he opened the door to us and he was so kind! We are going to come by and see him this week and we are so excited! We also got in with a few other people that the Elders could never visit because they are single woman. So, yay! We are just so pumped and cannot wait to get them back at church!
We are still working with our "golden couple". We seriously love them so much it actually hurts my heart. They are amazing!! They just need to get married so they can get baptized!!!! We had talked about it before but nothing was happening so we fasted and prayed and felt super strongly about being lovingly bold with them and committing them to marriage! Well, we went over and taught about how our bodies our temples for our spirits and the importance of being clean of sin and how keeping ALL the commandments will bless us forever! We read Alma 34:32 "This is the time to prepare to meet God, and do not procrastinate the day of your repentance...." and so much more. That scripture is pretty gnarly and we committed them to read the whole chapter and that we'd talk about it the next day. Well, we came over the next day and asked them what they thought about it. The man answered that as he was reading the scripture, he felt super hot, like his body was telling him that this chapter, and those scriptures were for him! He said the feeling was so strong he actually closed the book, but then that he had a feeling that he couldn't stop reading it, so he opened it again and read the chapter over and over again. Of course I was dying during this story because we knew it was the spirit!!!! He kept saying that scripture was talking to him, that he felt like The Book of Mormon was written just for him! Ahhhhhh! I was almost screaming! We proclaimed it was the spirit and that experience was the answer to his prayers!! He still was like, well we need to keep praying and asking God, but we know we are getting closer!! -__- Gahhhhhhh!!! The Spirit was so strong and we know that it has testified to them, they just haven't accepted it yet! They both know the BOM is true, and that Joseph Smith was a prophet! They even downloaded the LDS Library app! They are sooo legit! They just need a little more time. It's okay. Heavenly Father has taught me a lot of patience in these past 10 months and I've also learned that salvation is personal! There is no timeline to when a person can understand and accept the gospel of Jesus Christ. Obviously we want them too like right away, but it's not about us! It's about them! Our job is to continue to teach and invite, and they with the Lord will do the rest :)
Please continue to keep praying for our peeps! We love them so much and know that your prayers help!! I love you all much and hope you have a great weeek! Oh, also, don't worry that Elder Corbridge from the Seventy came to our mission this week and gave us a special Zone Conference. Also, don't worry that our district had lunch with him and his wife and that Sister Corbridge told us all about being married to a General Authority and their love story!! So cute!!
Being a missionary is the best! Everyone should do it! xoxo
Con todo mi corazoncito,
Hermana Carbajal <3
We are just so unified
Funnel Cake #iategluten #lotsofit 0_0
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