October, 10, 2011

This week was a good week. We did alot of contacting this week it is really good practice for me sometimes I really hate contacting, but it helps my Portuguese. On Thursday we were on our way home and we decided to make a contact with this guy named Ivan. We explained to him about the church and asked if we could come back and teach him, he said that we could and he said that he is free anytime.

The next day a Friday was a big day we had 6 meetings planed already marked. I honestly didn't think we would have enough time for what we had planned, but we had set up with a member to come with us but he forgot and was doing something else. So we went to our first meeting and after that our second meeting fell through and our third and our fourth etc it just wasn't the day (that's what I thought at that time) we even tried calling some people to see if we could come over to their houses and everyone seemed to be busy. We were very disappointed becasue we didnt know what we should do after walking closer to our house we decided to head over to Ivan's. A little hesitant on this decision because  when we contacted Ivan he was drunk and we were unsure if he would remember us. We arrived at his house and he was home he let us in we asked him how he was doing we were just trying to get to know him. He explained to us that he and his wife had split up recently and she left the kids with him, two sons. He said that if we hadn't showed up he would have dropped the kids off and he would have ended his life. He said he was just getting ready to leave. After that me and my companion knew exactly why our meetings had fallen through.  We needed to be there. The Lord wanted us to be there at Ivans house. We felt the spirit very strong and taught him the plan of salvation. We also told him the  two most important things that he needed to do- one, take care of his kids and two, be baptized. We marked a baptism and he accepted. 

This experience helped me out a lot it made me realize that this work isn't mine it is the work of The Lord. I am a tool in his hands. That is why it is very crucial to have his spirit. It was  a good week.

I love you guys very much

Elder Ontiveros