Whats up everyone?
On Saturday
we started off the day with a Super Contact in the park with a bunch of
pamphlets, Book of Mormons, and handouts. We contacted like crazy with
the 6 of us in our district and 90% of the people didn't even live in our
city! Anyway, we started divisions and I had to take one of the zone
leaders to our lessons for the day. So he and I had a great lesson after
lunch and got a new investigator also!
But
later that night we visited the Cotto family with a member who is a
family friend of the Cottos. We went back to the restoration. We showed
the 20 min video of the restoration and I knew that it was a kind of now
or never kind of deal. My companion and I bore pretty sincere
testimonies, I won't lie, it was kind of intense. I have grown to love
this family and sincerely want them to find their way into the right
church with the complete gospel. The father said that he was sorry but
he wasn't going to leave his church for many reasons.
So this was an eventful week!
First I want to talk about my investigator family I'm working with.
On Saturday
we started off the day with a Super Contact in the park with a bunch of
pamphlets, Book of Mormons, and handouts. We contacted like crazy with
the 6 of us in our district and 90% of the people didn't even live in our
city! Anyway, we started divisions and I had to take one of the zone
leaders to our lessons for the day. So he and I had a great lesson after
lunch and got a new investigator also!
They love our
messages but he just wont I guess, BUT hear's the weird part. As we were
leaving the mother of the family told the member that we brought that
she and her husband KNOW our church is true and want to change. The
problem is that they live right next to their current pastor and he has
given their daughter a scholarship to college and are afraid of losing
it.
Boy that was a complex set of emotions for me. I am super happy that I helped a family find the truth but I'm also pretty frustrated with the way they are handling it!
Boy that was a complex set of emotions for me. I am super happy that I helped a family find the truth but I'm also pretty frustrated with the way they are handling it!
We´ll see I guess.
On Wednesday last week, the power was out in the whole city from literally the minute I woke up to about 8:30
at night. We had to return home early because it got dark and the rules
tell us to get home if the power is out. So me and Elder Hadley had a
nice evening sitting on the couch staring at candles for 2 hours.
On Friday,
we got to go to Santa Rosa to do a baptismal interview since the ZL´s
were in San Pedro Sula. While we were there we found a store with a
GIANT bag of ties. We talked the guy down to 50 cents a Tie! I bought
16!
On Saturday, I shook hands with a monkey at a restaurant!
Today
is P-Day and this morning we went to Copan again to go the the Bird
Park. They have a ton of parrots and other birds there and I got to do
some cool stuff. The lady was feeding the Toucans and gave us some to
feed them out of our hand! That was awesome! I also got to hold 3
parrots on my shoulders and arms too! They kinda bit at my hair and
shirt though haha. It was super cool!
Spiritual thought of the week:
Share your testimony.
Share it with SOMEBODY. Don't have a solid testimony? Neither did I about
3 ish months ago. It´s a process, but right now, I can tell you without
a doubt that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is the church
that Jesus Christ established when he was on earth. It was restored by
the power and authority of God given to Joseph Smith. And that the Book
of Mormon really is the word of God. I couldn't have told that to any of
you before my mission. I didn't know for sure, but now I do. And the best
way I have found to strengthen a testimony is to share what you do have
a testimony of. The best experiences of my mission so far are when I am
pouring my heart out, full of the Holy Spirit, letting people know what I have come to find is true. I promise that you will feel the spirit
when you share with others.
Lots of colorful photos!
Have an awesome week everyone! Love you Elder (Dallin) Poulson
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