I am sorry for the past couple of
weeks that i havent sent email....I spend most of the time here in the
office on pday playing "phase 10" or sleeping. haha. Just kidding I dont
sleep that much. Even though I want to....I did a division with Elder
Hoggan to do a baptismal interview and while we were teaching a lady at
her door i was literally sleeping while standing up and leaning against
her wall.....it was not good. haha.
I sent some pictures to you....I hope that makes up for my lack of writing emails the past fw weeks. haha.
So
this week was pretty good. We worked really hard and were able to teach
a lot of great people. So the missionaries in this are before I got
here were working with a couple and were trying to help them get
married.....why it wasnt done before I dont know but we are finally
seeing progress with the marriage....now the progress of their
testimonies have come to a halt.....I have taught some of the best
lessons that I have ever taught while here on the mission with this
couple and....nothing.....its tough to see someone SO SPECIAL start to
have more and more doubts. Its like these doubts that are being put into
their minds are coming from a series of dreams they have been
having.....These dreams are so DUMB and honestly have nothing to do with
anything but they feel like God is trying to warn them about something
they are doing.
One dream Salai
had (the wife) was that she was at some random church without a name
and that people were crying in the church and then two women stood up
and started teaching everyone.....that was all that happened in the
dream and she thinks God is trying to tell her that she needs to re
think all of the confirming answers that she has already recieved...like
I understand that she can feel confused because she is understanding
things that are not coming from God, but its just a little frustrating
when she has recieved many spiritual confirmations about the
truthfulness of what we teach.....And with Cardão her husband....this
last week we had a lesson and Salai had finished telling us that she
wouldnt be baptized cause now she has doubts (keep in mind they have
both born testimony on fast and testimony meeting that this is the true
church and they have told us a million times they have recieved an answe
about everything) then I asked Cardão "if marriage wasnt an issue would
you be baptized this week" and he responds (he is really smart and
always tries to "out-smart" us haha) "Elder Hadley, if you were on a
path and a door popped up in front of you and you didnt know what was on
the other side, would you go in?" (he was totally expecting me to say
no) but I just said "If God told me to...Id kick the door down" then we
had a great lesson with them and responded to a lot of doubts.... but
still......its tough.....We arent quite sure what we need to do....the
bottom line is they stopped doing their part and allowed the enemy to
start working on them....
And
these past two weeks they havent come to church and I talked to them on
the phone yesterday and they said they want a little bit of time to see
if this is the true church so what are they going to do....stop going to
church....okay so after explaining to them that that is not how God
works they wanted us to pass by their house today....so tonight we are
going to go to their house. Its tough but.....we will not give up on
them. We just have to figure out what they need because they are
extremely special people and we love them a lot! Thats why you probably
could pick up a hint of frustration in the email. haha.
the rest of our investiagtors are AMAZING and things are going smoothly.
Elder
Fernandes came to visit....it was incredible....I love that man. He
gave a training on Faith. And it had been something I have been studying
HARD for about 2 months. And his training just was amazing. It helped a
lot. We had the time to spend some time with them after the training.
It was really cool to talk with him and his wife. And to have Presidente
and Sister Andrezzo there with us made it way better.
I sent a picture of when he came to our house. I hope you guys can open it up.
Anyway so this week was awesome. I love you guys and hope you all have a great week!!
Elder Hadley
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