This week has been MAAAD! We've still been getting outpourings of miracles
like crazy, and all around things are just going swell. We've been inviting
somebody to be baptized almost every day, and almost all of them have said that
as soon as they know it's true, they would! Unfortunately, we had to re-divide
our area for the third time now, because the sisters had a super sketchy part of
Oxnard, so we handed almost all of them over to them. But hey, just so long as
they get baptized, I'll be happy!
The crazy part is that most of those invitations happened while we were
tracting! We knocked a door this week looking for a guy named David, but his
cousin "Martin" answered. He was super awkward while we were standing there,
but when I asked if he'd ever talked to missionaries before, he said "No." and I
said, "well, do you WANT to talk to missionaries?" and after a brief
hessitation, he said, "Yeah, I'll give anything a try! Come in!" And we
proceeded to have one of the most boss restoration lessons ever! He's super
excited to read the Book of Mormon, and really liked what we taught. The Zone
Leaders will be teaching him, because he's YSA age, but I'll let you know if
anything awesome comes of it.
We also taught the coolest plan of salvation lesson ever to Saul, and as
usual, Saul ate it up! We made a bunch of really neat visuals so that he'd
understand it better, and at the end, he flat out testified to US that
everything we taught was true. The spirit poked me in the back, so I then
showed him (by taking away things like the kingdoms of glory and the premortal
life) how other religions see the plan, and he was amazed, and because of that
he knows Joseph was a prophet! Elder Law proceeded to set him with a baptism
date of October 19, so hopefully that'll go through! He STILL didn't make it to
church this week, we've been trying very hard to figure out that problem, but
he's committed to do this and has immense desire. Hopefully he acts!
Our other investigators are either doing okay or running into walls. We
got the Zarcos family back from the sisters due to the area change, and I'm
super happy about that! They're doing great as usual.
Elder Lewis is tearing it up in the new area he's in. They have seven
people with a baptismal date! I'm super happy that he and Elder Hernandez are
seeing such blessings there! it's super good to see!.
Another great thing this week is that I finally found all the addresses to
the Recent Converts in Taft!!! I've been lamenting the fact that I never wrote
them down anywhere since I left, and I JUST REALIZED I'd wrote them somewhere in
my planners so I could find their house!!! (Elder Buckmiller was right,
AGAIN!) good thing I didn't toss those! I'm glad too, because it's getting
close to Rosario, Guillermo, and Ernestina's year mark, and they need to get
sealed!
All in all, everything's going well as usual. We're seeing crazy miracles
every day, and Elder Law is continuing to be a total boss, so life is good! I
love you all, and hope everything goes according to plan this week!
Love,
Elder Matthew David Clough
