Golly the weeks go by so quickly! This week has been so great! It was successful, busy and way fun! We had more exchanges, a baptism and lots of other awesome missionary experiences!
To start off the week I went on exchanges with Elder Laga. He is a great missionary and I came out with him so it was good to get to know him a bit better. We had a great day, he came to my area and we had fun finding and teaching people. it was a real cool experience because on the way out of the apartment I had a prompting to knock on our neighbor's door which led to us being able to teach the message of the restoration to him along with him becoming a new investigator! His name is Jimmy and he is hilarious and such a nice guy. It was a cool experience.
Love,
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| Elder Laga & Jonah |
Another cool experience we had this week was being able to contact a referral a couple days ago. We went with a recently returned missionary and contacted Doroto and John, they are so cool. They were very open about some marital and other problems they have been having and were so glad to see us. We were able to promise the blessings of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to their family and see them going from a bit dreary at first to enthusiastic at the end of our visit. They committed to be baptized in the future and I am just excited about them!
Definite highlight of the week was being able to have the baptism on Friday! This man had been waiting for 7 years to be baptized and I felt so privileged to be able to teach him and see him finally enter into the covenant of baptism. The service went so well. Elder Garton was able to baptize him and it was just a fantastic experience. he was then confirmed and given the Aaronic priesthood on Sunday. He is so great and I am so excited for him and his family. Side note, his family was actually being taught by the missionaries while he was being taught in prison without him knowing. They also didn't know that he was being taught and when they found out that they both were studying with the LDS church, they took it as a sign of truthfulness, so cool! So his family was actually baptized 7 years ago.
Well boy it was such a fun and spiritual week. It was definitely a testimony to me that this is Christ's church and he is very involved with the work of salvation. well I hope everyone is doing fantastic, I love you!
Elder Morgan
More Info sent 4/10/17:
Ok so he was in prison for 7 years. During his stay, a member of the church was a fellow inmate with him and began teaching him the gospel. Brother Benavidez took a while to come around but eventually realized that it was true. He just studied the Gospel for the rest of the time the was in there. I think he read the BOM 2 times by the time he got out. While in prison his wife and 3 kids were being taught by the missionaries without him knowing, they met them at the park. Then Brother Benavidez told him wife that he had been studying the Mormon faith and she told him that she had been too. So his wife and three kids were baptized around his 2 year mark in prison. Once he got out, he started coming to church and the missionaries finally started meeting with him and they had one lesson with him before I got here. He is on parole so he had to be interviewed by the Mission President and approved by Salt Lake before he was able to be baptized. Then he was finally baptized, super cool. He started a business and named it 'A Fresh Start' after his baptism, pretty cool.
More Info sent 4/10/17:
Ok so he was in prison for 7 years. During his stay, a member of the church was a fellow inmate with him and began teaching him the gospel. Brother Benavidez took a while to come around but eventually realized that it was true. He just studied the Gospel for the rest of the time the was in there. I think he read the BOM 2 times by the time he got out. While in prison his wife and 3 kids were being taught by the missionaries without him knowing, they met them at the park. Then Brother Benavidez told him wife that he had been studying the Mormon faith and she told him that she had been too. So his wife and three kids were baptized around his 2 year mark in prison. Once he got out, he started coming to church and the missionaries finally started meeting with him and they had one lesson with him before I got here. He is on parole so he had to be interviewed by the Mission President and approved by Salt Lake before he was able to be baptized. Then he was finally baptized, super cool. He started a business and named it 'A Fresh Start' after his baptism, pretty cool.
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