Saturday, October 1, 2011

Training ... Continued

This last week would have been transfers, but our mission president put it off until after the last Sunday of the month, because he didn´t want to interrupt any last minute baptisms. So we might be getting our transfer calls tonight. I´m hoping that I stay in Itumbiara for a little longer, but I´ll be happy with whatever the Lord decides.
We have been commissioned to find a new building to rent as our new chapel, but it´s really difficult to find a building affordable, well centralized in the city, with various classrooms, area for a baptismal font, and one big room that can fit 100 people. We continue the search.
There are two pretty cool occurrences that occurred this week. The first miracle we witnessed happened on Wednesday. We trying to contact some people and we passed by the house of someone we had previously tried to teach, about two months ago, but she said that she was an atheist and that if God existed that she wouldn´t be going through so many hardships in her life. She had lost her business (which had over three hundred employees), she had lost her car and was preparing to lose her house. She told us that listening to our message wouldn´t make a difference, but she accepted to read the pamphlet on the restoration. So this week I felt prompted to see how she was doing. We knocked on her door (we actually clapped at the gate) and she came out and told us how her life was turning around. She had read the pamphlet, but didn´t know where the church was, and that she had been looking for us. We set up an appointment to teach her at her office building the next day. She wasn´t in when we stopped by, but we slid the address of the church under her door. The story hasn´t ended yet, so hopefully I´ll be sharing the rest of the happy ending next week.
Yesterday we also had a pretty spiritual experience. We went to the hospital to give a member´s husband´s dad a blessing, but the nurse office lady person said that we could only visit one at a time. As a missionary, where you can´t be alone, it was a difficult situation. We were able to convince the lady to let us both go, but I´d have to wait outside the door. When we got to the door, the lady who gave us our protective hospital gowns said that her brother was a member in another city and that she didn´t have a problem with us both going. After our visit, the son said that before his dad hadn´t been able to talk yet, but that after the blessing he was able to converse normally.

Ran out of time so
Love,
Elder David Short

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