The
other Splits that are happening (as you all know my titles normally
have dual meaning) is something SPECTACULAR! We will be SPLITTING THE
MISSION!!! :D By July there will be no more San José, Costa Rica
Mission. It will be the San José EAST or the San José WEST Mission. WE
learned about the split awhile back, but I wanted to wait until I knew
who the 2 new Mission Presidents would be. And, needless to say, the
long awaited day has arrived. Over the East mission will be a Gringo
named Presidente Hays, and over the West mission will be a Honduraño
named Presidente Güitty. We don´t know which of the missions we will be
divided into but we´ve been told not to wonder about that and the Lord
will make it know in his own due time. :D I´m super Excited :D
In
other news, this week we found a family of 6 that are all very nice and
some have even had contact with the Mormon missionaries before. They
seem like they will progress fast and we pray that they will. The
biggest problem I see with them is the fact that they go to another
church and they won´t come to ours until they receive a testimony of the
Book of Mormon. Right now we
have between 15 and 20 good investigators and we´re trying to get them
all progressing. Dennis wasn´t baptized today and he probably won´t for a
while because he has stopped progressing. He´s frustrating and I feel
like he just doesn´t want to make the commitment. We´ve explained
everything we can to him but he´s not moving any further along so I
don´t know what to do. We did find a new person named David this week
and he basically has the same beliefs as a Mormon, he´s just not
Mormon... Yet, as my companion and I like to say. We´ve given him a Book
of Mormon and he´s been reading a bit. We feel like once he gets a
testimony of it he´ll get baptized too.
 |
| These two are just one of the miracles I spoke about |
I´ve
realized that so much relies upon the Book of Mormon, but no body
really wants to read it seriously here. If the truly understood then
they would want to be baptized and it would be a struggle to teach
because they´d have a thirst for learning the True Gospel.
One HUGE miracle for the week. :) One
of our good friends in the ward, his name is Steve (a gringo name for a
latino), came up to us and said that he had a reference for us. To be
honest, the reference hasn´t come through yet but he also said that his
daughter hasn´t been baptized and his nephew either. They´re both older
than 8 and have been coming to church for a very long time. I understand
that his Daughter is afraid of water, but the nephew is going to get
baptized this next Saturday after his mom signs the paper. I don´t know
why stuff like this happens to us. I don´t really feel like we deserve
it, but we´ve been working hard with no fruits before. The Lord has
prepared a way for us if we can follow through with his plan.
Just
so you all know, I´ve been reading the many weekly emails sent out and I
love to see all the miracles that I´ve seen with my friends. Many have
had changes in the last 2 weeks and are experiencing difficulties and
great uplifting experiences. Many had days when they couldn´t go to work
in the mission field for the native´s "excessive celebration" as I like
to call it (meaning that there were WAY to many drunk and/or drugged up
people to leave the house). I just want to say thank you all for
keeping me posted on all that you do and even though I don´t respond I
almost always read (sorry, I can´t lie and say that I read every one,
but I try and that is what is important).
Anyway, I love you all and I´m excited to hear more of the miracles and experiences that will be seen this year.
Love,
Elder VanderMeyden
No comments:
Post a Comment