WELL looks like I am Johnny
Lingo because I am staying on this island for another transfer! I will be
staying with Elder Richards again this transfer. I am really excited because I
know that I was sent here for a reason and I can’t leave until I’ve done my work/purpose
here... so excited to stay in these islands for at least 6 more weeks. Also, I
want to give a S/O to Elder Tester who will be serving with my old comp Elder
Santiago, GO GET EM!!!
Well as far as the
work goes we’ve had some downers...Rodrigo (our investigator who we’ve been
teaching for 3 months) told us some confidential stuff and he doesn’t want to
continue studying with us. I was pretty bummed out. Later that same day we had
2 other investigators say they were done as well...so right now we are back to
the drawing board trying to find an area we haven’t worked in because the other
areas we’ve worked know us and our names and are NOT interested. So this last
week near the end we did some exploring trying to find a new area to work.
We were in this new
area and it was about 90 minutes walking from our house. It is a little way up in the mountains and we
got lost...having no idea where we were I said to Elder Richards “Should we take
the right road or the left?” He said, “Left.” I knocked the first door and Elder Richards
was a couple of doors ahead of me. This lady about 40 years old with a bunch of
tattoos opened it and said that she was really busy and didn’t have time. So I decided to just give her a card, and
actually it was my last card. She shut the door and I was walking away and
after 3 steps I got this really strong impression, "GO BACK AND KNOCK ON
THAT DOOR NOW!" Not knowing why I just turned really quickly and knocked on
it again. She opened the door really fast
and was crying. I just said, "I don’t know why but I feel I need to help
you right now." She looked at me with sad eyes and just said, "Come
on in." We entered the house and she told us that she and her husband were
going to separate. This has been really
hard for her because she loves him and doesn’t want to separate. She said that
she had said a prayer earlier that day saying, "God where are you?" She
said that she thought that she was losing her faith in Christ... so when she
saw the card that I gave her was a picture of Christ that says, "Hope
brings faith," she knew it was an answer from God. We taught her about the
Book of Mormon and will go back and teach her.
Even if she eventually doesn’t want to hear our message I am so grateful
I was part of this experience. God
really does answer prayers!
The rest of the week
was pretty normal—getting yelled at by old drunk people in the streets and
having people speak gibberish to us--you know the same old same old. The
temporal thing I learned this week was to NOT do a leg day work out before
walking the whole day—you look like a grandpa! The spiritual thing I learned
this week is that God uses us to help other people. That’s why it is so
important to always be prepared by living so we always have the Spirit with
us. As missionaries trying to share the
gospel there is a reason we spend so much time studying scriptures and praying!
Today for p-day we
went to a cave!!! How cool is this place?!?!
Love you all! Boa semana.
--Elder Herrmann
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