Visionz

All right ill start you off with an investigator story. So this was just yesterday on sunday, but we had an investigator Who was supposed to come to church but he lives pretty far from the church, like 45 mins away, so he unfortunately couldnt make it on time. He got there at the end of sunday school haha and apoligized to us telling us how he was super tired and stuff. We told him it was ok and that since he was Down here in cerro azul he might as well at least see the church and have an in person lesson with us. So thats what we did. After the tour we took him to the classrooms and we started to teach him about the restoration. And literally i taught him the first 2 points of the lesson and he was out, literally dead asleep!! Me and my comp were So confused because this has never happened before. So we just kept teaching the lesson hahaha. We went on asking him questions and even gave him the baptismal invitation, all while he was asleep!! I guess it was kind of like our test run haha. After we gave the ENTIRE lesson we tried waking him up. He woke up but he wasnt entirely awake. This is the interesting part. He half woke up with his hand to his forehead and said, "i have a vision." He went on to say, " i see Stars, and a City, this is a City in heaven." We were So confused we didnt know what to say, So my comp was just like, "this is the love of god." But apparently it worked, he started to get emotional and then started feeling around in the scriptures for a photo of christ we gave him. And he said, "this is a photo of christ in the americas, and christ truly sent you both here to teach me." It was honetly really amazing but also weird at the same time, because all this was happening with his eyes closed lol. Then after he opened his eyes and he asked us how he could become a member of our church! So we set up a baptismal date for him then i shared a testimony i had written out about the restoration, because we definetly werent going to teach the entire lesson over again after that. Then we shared some comforting scriptures with him and it was over. Really interesting lesson, but honestly kind of amazing too. I can now honestly say that i have a strong testimony on how the lord works in many ways hahaha!

Other than that it was a pretty normal week. Just contacting most of the time and eating haha. Except i probably had the worst food ever this week too. I HAD TO EAT FISH!! literally probably my first time eating it on purpose. Im just gonna say i was not happy, it honestly didnt taste bad at all but it was still fish so it was stupid. Luckily it was cooked and not sushi. Lets just say im going to really dread the day i see sushi on my plate haha.

And just a small thought to leave you with before i end, "... And thus we see that by small means the lord can bring about great things" (1Nephi 16: 29). I just want you all to remember that. Its one of my favorite phrases.

Love you all, praying for you, email me jack.raymond@missionary.org, hasta luego!!

-elder raymond

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