This week went fantastic!
Thats like my new theme word cause President Salinas asked me how I was in english at a conference this last week, so i asnwered him with "fantastic". He liked it so much he started using it all the time. Its fantastic!
So i will just start with that conference and go from there. It was awesome, and the last one we will have of the like. It was soley on how we should be teaching as missionaries, and pres focused a lot the spirit and what we have to do and need to be to have the the companionship of the spirit. It was a very long list, but all things we should definetly strive for as not only missionaries, but members of the church. All the requirments came from the scriptures, and included such things as pray, fasting, love, charity, long suffering, and other that escape me at this moment. But it was good stuff. next we got back to Leona and right off the bat things started rolling really smooth. We had the best week I have ever had there in terms of numbers, and by the end of the week we were dead tired. It was fantastic!
We finally taugt the nonmeber husband of a recent convert who actually lives in the same building as we do. He has always worked every sunday so couldnt evercome to church, but we noticed he hasnt been working sundays, so we finally got to talkin with him, and turns out he probably wont be working sundays anymore. He has taken all the discussions before and has been to church 2 already before i was there. We start talking about baptism and find out he wants to do it, but is just afraid that he will go back to the way he used to be before his wife was baptized (Turns out her baptism and his two little kids had helped him stop drinking) but doesnt want to go back to it. We shared Moroni 8:16 with him, which says something like, "I fear what no man does, because the perfect love of God casts out all fear" He just kept reading it over and over, and wouldnt even really pay attention after that, because he then noticed in the verses before where it talks about infant baptism and how baptism is for people who have sins. He just sat there thinking. Without us saying anything, he told us "Im going to go to church with my family this week". when we asked him about baptism, he said he knows he needs it. We taught him a few more times after that, and turns out friday night he tells us something happened and now he has to work this Sunday unless he can find someone else. Saturday night somes, and he didnt find anyone, but says he was going to do his best to get done with work super early to come back for church. He works construction in cancun, and was going to leave at 4 to try and be back to catch the last hour of church. We show up at 9 am sunday as the services were starting, and hows sitting in the front row? Mark (thats his name! Fantastic right?!) It was a straight up miracle.
Well Mom had some questions I could answer last week, so I will get to some of those. I loved the package! All the stuf was way sweet, especially all the primary stuff. I havent given it all away, since there is only like 3 kids here in the primary, but they all love it. All the candy is already gone cause i shared it with most of the members. I get sick now if i eat too much junk food. Weird right?
That guy that came to church a few weeks ago, the one where he said he was going to working, turns out he lost his job haha. Anyways, we have been teaching him, but he is super lazy and wont ever come back to church. hate that.... The 76 year old guy that went to the conference (george) has the coolest stories. He told us a story about how he was helping birth a cow, and had his whole arm inside the...eh...rear end of the momma cow, when it got scared and sat down on his arm, and he still has his arm! how cool right? He also says he used to be able to touch up to 4 meters with his hand jumping...which i think is like over 12 or 13 ft. Pretty nuts.
Well thats all i got for this week! Oh almost forgot, 3/4 of my zone went to a buffet for Elder Rupps (my mission brother) birthday. It was fantastic!
Have a great week everyone. Much love.
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Love,
Elder Kitterman
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