Not quite sure what all happened this week, it seemed pretty
normal.
We went to give a blessing to a little girl in the hospital
and after the blessing her uncle showed up at the moms request. The dad is a
member (he is who called us) but the mom isn't. He brother (the uncle) is a
"brujo" (wizard) and had shown up with chicken blood and a bag that
I'm sure was full of other weird stuff to heal her.
The dad told her we had blessed her by the power of God and
he didn't want anything else done to her, but then the uncle began trying to
argue with us on how he had healed (I don't know how many people) and all this
nonsense. After explaining to him how he has no authority to do what he is
doing and in a very kind way telling him to stop doing what he is doing and
repent, he got mad and stormed out... Every once in a while you see witches of
wizards here, but I've never actually talked to one so that was
interesting.
What else?? We found a family of 7! Only 2 of them are
positive, but the assistants beat us in baptisms by a decent amount this month
(we have a little competition going) and we are pretty sure this family can put
us over the top in October if we focus on them having spiritual experiences
every day, so we are really focusing on them right now.
Actually we have a lot of good investigators, they just all
have something that are keeping them from being baptized (smoking, drinking, work
every Sunday, etc.) but we are hoping to do lots of divisions with members this
week and have time to visit them all and help them get over their obstacles.
Today for p-day we had a zone lunch. Everyone brought food
from their countries and we had a big pot-luck. My comp and I did mashed
potatoes with grilled cheese sandwiches. It was delicious!! Super fun
activity.
Overall things are going good, we ended up fasting yesterday
and we saw some big blessings come from it. Fasting is such a powerful
tool!
We are happy, having fun and working hard.
Hope everyone there is doing great!
Elder Davis
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