Listening and Being Obedient

Okay so I had a grand experience this past week, I want to bear my testimony to you about being obedient or at least trying your best to be. The Zone Leaders wanted us to contact 10 people a day. I had forgotten about this until Elder Mortensen was asking for the weekly numbers and asked how many we had contacted, it was a sad number, and I’ve been thinking of the Atonement a lot and getting over fears, being humble and more intuned with the spirit, mom your letter really struck a cord with me. Anywho on Wednesday we hadn’t really done anything because we had to make lunch for the district and so we cooked and had district meeting cooked more, ate and cleaned up. So anyway we got out and to start our day after that and we were throwing away our trash and I had the feeling to talk to this man standing nearby and like typical I’m like uh well he’s walking away so no, but then he didn’t walk far away and I felt like you need to talk to this man. So I was trying to tell my comp but she wasn’t getting me, so I was like that’s it, and just went right up to him well he wasn’t interested and even had the attitude of the fear, I don’t want to change my religion I’m not going to talk to you. So we left him with a card and moved on, I. Beckett then stopped another lady and she rejected us, so she was like it’s your turn, so I was like okay and then she’s told me to talk to this guy walking in front of us and I was like No, because he was young and I prejudged and was like he won’t want to listen to us, but ha ha thank goodness I was wrong. Anywho we talked to him, and he had talk to the Elders a long time ago and had the Book of Mormon but gave it to his sister, but we started teaching him, and he said everything made sense and the spirit was really strong and it was an awesome conversation, the ones that remind you why you want to be a missionary. So we had found ourselves a wonderful new investigator, we’re meeting with him tomorrow so we’ll see how it goes. It was a way sweet experience and a tender mercy from the Lord it just made us full of the spirit and happy, even though Fransico and Linda were at home but pretended like they weren’t they wouldn’t answer the door but we saw them moving around in there but I digress, anywho back to the story) It was only through that wanting to be obedient to the council of contacting that we were able to find our new investigator Alberto and listening to the spirit, with that first man because even though we got rejected first it put me into that contacting everyone mood, if not we would have walked right on past Alberto trying to get to Fransicos and Linda´s. Because contacting moving targets is not the easiest way to contact. So that was exciting. We also contacted minias young girls about 13 or 14 and at first they were laughing at us but we started to teach about the plan of salvation and they got really interested and were asking all these questions and one of them really wanted the Book of Mormon, it was an awesome experience. Also we contacted a Brazilian what a breath of fresh air, that’s why Brazil has so many members, they are open and willing to listen to you, it was great and she was nice. So now we’ll see how all these awesome new people progress, of course I might have only about a week and a half left here I don’t know we’ll see.