Dress Shopping

9/22/2014

Have you ever walked into a dress shop with 4 girls to go shopping? You walk to the first stand and there’s one, its perfect color size and it’s modest. They’ll take it off the rack try it on, walk out; they love it. You get all excited; yeah it’s time to leave! Then 40 min later of wandering around in the same store, 5 stores later and you wasted an entire Saturday, and in the end they’ve decided not to getting anything at all and wait to see if anything else comes on sale...

Well the mission is a lot like dress shopping and am I grateful that I have had 4 lovely girls in my life teach me that principle.

Tuesday we had a great lesson with a new family and a pf, who has a brother in the mission and we were able to give her the first lesson and invite her to be baptized, her name is Pati. We then had the opportunity to meet with Alexander, the son of a less active in our ward he is super animado to read the Book of Mormon, but he didn’t end up coming to church. We then had the opportunity to meet with a reference from the Stake President, a family that we met with and they are progressing, all 3 of them! They came to church only missing the mother, she wasn’t able to make it. Everything was going good till we reached Friday for the baptism. We got there and there was still water in there from a month ago... so we tried to drain it and it wouldn’t drain. So we grabbed buckets and all day long draining cleaning and filled the baptism font. We then had a good baptism. His family backed out last minute, they didn’t want anything to do with it, threatened him up and down, but Joel came, and told them if they wanted to join him they could. They ended up coming, and it was a great baptism! The next day we did service in their bread shop and it was really good. Sunday he was confirmed a member and 4 people came to church.

La expierncia, es esta semena orando para strengthened my testimony in Jesus Christ. The spirit told me, “Who am I willing to follow?” How can we be willing to testify or know of Jesus Christ if were not willing to follow him? I hope that we can be humble enough to accept him as our Savior,

Elder Grow