Yesterday was probably the worst day of the week, but we survived it. It rained a downpour from 7:00 Am until 9:00 Pm. We had to leave a 8:30 to go pick up a guy (named Emanuel) for church and the streets were just rivers! We tried calling Emanuel to see if he was willing to go to church anyway with the rain and he didn`t answer... We had to go get him, we told him we would swing by his house. With in 3 minutes of the 30 minute walk we were drenched from head to toe and my suit was completely wet. When we made it to Emanuel`s house he didn`t answer and we just had to go to church without him. Just crossing the streets we had to walk through water halfway up our calves haha! When we made it to church we were soaked and cold, but we had done all we could to help the investigators go to church. The Lord blessed us for our efforts and a less active member family came back to church! It was great! The rest of the day we spent walking in the streets without much success.... haha!
We also had a great experience when we found Emanual! We were working like normal and a lesson fell through so we had some time to just start knocking doors. At first we had little success, but then we felt impressed to knock another door at the end of the road When we knocked it a really big, strong guy came out and invited us in. He is huge!! And he is only 19! It was awesome! My whole time here in Rocha I have been trying to find younger people to teach and baptize because most of the branch are just little old ladies (there`s nothing wrong with that, but we need some younger blood or the whole branch will disappear in 10 years). Emanuel had already talked to missionaries before, but they just stopped visiting him and he seems super ready to accept the Gospel! The Lord has also helped us find several families recently too!
The mission is going great! Its been a lot of fun! I`m loving it here!
Love y'all!
Elder Cole
No comments:
Post a Comment