It was a really rainy week this week. One of the days we had about
two hours between studies and lunch that we planned to use to go
contacting. We decided to go to a part of Juncos that's pretty far away
and as soon as we got there and parked the car it started dumping rain.
We had already driven the whole way out so we got out, got our bikes off
the car and went looking for people. It let up a little at the end of
the 2 hours but we were soaked, and laughing about how funny we must
have looked. I still haven't picked up the package yet. We got the
delivery slip in our mailbox on Saturday night so our next stop is the
post office to pick that up.
Some really good news though. We have an investigator
family, Manuel and Keila that we've kind of held back on. We never
dropped them completely because they were just busy with school and
finals and everything and they seemed like they had a lot of potential.
Anyway, we went by on Monday without an appointment and he'd started
reading the Book of Mormon on that past Friday, and had already read all
of 1 Nephi. He had a few doubts about it, but they were just things he
didn't quite understand, and we could explain without problems. We went
again on Thursday and he had already read to Mosiah. He told us he knows
there's no way Joseph Smith could have written that book and that it
had to be true. We told him it was still important to pray about it, he
hadn't yet. He was really close to accepting a baptismal date for April
28th but he still wasn't quite sure enough yet but he's tearing through
the Book of Mormon so I'm not too worried. His wife isn't quite as
excited yet. She's happy to support him and she likes to come talk to us
during the lessons, but she hasn't been reading. Her parents were
pentecostal pastors, and I think that's been making it hard for her to
keep commitments. But I'm really excited. I could see the difference the
Book of Mormon made even between the two visits on Monday and Thursday.
It's a great book.
Conference was awesome. Being out here has made me appreciate even
more how amazing it is that we have a prophet. We didn't get any
investigators there, Manuel had to work this weekend (he usually doesn't
have to work weekends) but we told him he could get it online. We found
out that he was already familiar with lds.org
because he downloaded the Book of Mormon as a pdf and the audio files
so he could listen to it at work. So we're really hoping he's listened.
Especially during the Saturday morning session I felt like the talks
were perfect for him to hear. We did get to watch it in English, and I
was watching for Evan the whole time. I guessed he must not have been
able to make it. But I did see my institute teacher and a few people in
my student ward during the priesthood session. The talks were so good.
Every one was perfect for what I needed to hear. I know this church is
led by prophets and apostles. It's true isn't it? Then what else
matters?
I love you
Elder Duclos
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