Hello everybody,
This week was great. We didn't do
our best with Member Present Lessons, but we had two baptisms, one confirmation
and six investigators at church. That completes the goal that Elder Johnson and
I set at the beginning of the transfer. ALWAYS SET A BAPTISMAL GOAL WITH YOUR
COMPANION AT THE BEGINNING OF EACH TRANSFER!
We discussed and prayed and made the
goal for 5 baptisms, and because of our obedience, hard work, and faith, God
came through and gave us 2 on the last day of the transfer. God loves us and
wants us to be successful according to HIS will and not ours. So as we set
goals, trying to align our will with His; it ALWAYS WORKS OUT. That's just how
it works. We will be staying as companions for another transfer. We set the
goal for 6 baptisms, this coming transfer. It will be difficult because this
transfer is only 5 weeks. However, I know that God will provide.
We also both set bench press goals :) Mine's
330 and Johnson's is 275. I'm very excited for this next transfer. We had some
problem missionaries in the zone before, lazy, unmotivated, prideful, dead
missionaries. There were a couple missionaries. God decided to pull all them
out and give us some all-stars. Every single companionship in our zone besides
the sisters, have a leadership calling. The Palm Desert Zone is going to
baptize. I can't wait to do tons of interviews. It's gonna be good.
Yolanda dropped us. She's the super
Christian lady who was on date for baptism this weekend as well. She was going
to be baptized hardcore, but, the pastors of her other church are demons from
Satan and prayed/blessed/gave her a new ministry and she got confused. We had a
super intense lesson with her. We got there, asked her to get her BoM and she
was like, "I have to talk to you first." Great. She told us how she's
super confused and doesn't know what to do and wanted us to stop coming by even
though she knows everything is true. We said, "Can we have a prayer?"
this is in the middle of the lesson. She said a prayer asking God what she
should do. After the prayer, we sat in silence for literally like 4:54 mins in
COMPLETE SILENCE. She got up and talked about how she saw a tip of a star with
a beams of light coming off of it (no idea what the fetch that is supposed to
mean). Then said that Satan was in the house confusing her. We said, "We have
the authority to cast out spirits." She said, "Do it." We placed
our hands on her head. As soon as I said, "In the name of Jesus
Christ..." I felt an intense energy start from my head and go through my
hands into her head. I cast out the spirit in the name of Christ and gave the
blessing. As I was giving the blessing, I totally forgot where I was and felt
completely guided by the Spirit. I have no idea what I said but I know what I
felt. The priesthood is real. I know it, as we are worthy to hold that
Priesthood, God works through us. She reaffirmed the baptismal date for the
17th of Feb and was set. We said, "When can we come back?" She said,
"Tomorrow, I don't want you to leave me for that long." We came back
the next day and Adriana (her daughter who thinks she's super hot but she's
super not) answered the door. She basically told us that we were bothering her
and confusing her mom and bothering the family and if we came back she would
call the cops. Garbage. Yolanda told us to come. Anyways, we testified and
challenged her to listen to our message. She said, "No." So we left.
I HATE WHEN FAMILY INTERFERES WITH SALVATION!!!! IF YOU'RE ONE OF THEM AND
YOU'RE READING THIS EMAIL ACCEPT CHRIST AND HUMBLE YOURSELF BEFORE HIM SO HE
CAN POUR OUT BLESSINGS FROM THE WINDOWS OF HEAVEN UPON YOU. Sorry. That felt
good. I've seen family interfere with Salvation so much it's insane. I hate it.
Anyways, the Peña's got baptized and
we'll hopefully start teaching the rest of the family (2 brothers, and a
father). They all came to the baptism and loved it. Pray for Yolanda to have an
awakening. Pray that we can start teaching the rest of the Peña family.
I love you all and don't want to
come home.
-Elder Matt Dial
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