All in the Lord's Timing

Well, it's really hard to top what happened last week for sure and this week was going pretty great, until Friday night something happened. We have been teaching Nelson since I got to this area like 3 months ago, and boy had that man been prepared. He has such a solid understanding of the Gospel and a desire to follow Jesus Christ. We had a lesson with him that night with one of the branches recent converts who just bore his awesome new convert-like testimony and it was a great lesson, but that night we got a text from him telling us that he doesn't want to be baptized anymore, or come to church. We still aren't sure, really, what happened to cause this, but luckily he is still willing to have us over and talk to him whenever we want. He also expressed to us that he still loves the Book of Mormon, and when we taught him yesterday we bore our testimonies of it, and invited him to read, ponder, and pray from the Book of Mormon to know what he should do. We're still working with him and are hoping to we can help him to have the desire again, to follow Jesus Christ. 

On the brighter side of things, we met some really cool new people this week. There's this lady from the Dominican Republic, that came to church last week out of the blue. The relief society president told us that she would like us to come visit her. We bike out to her house, which was way out towards the uninhabited side of our area, and taught her, and then again this Sunday she came to church. She told us about how in the DR she had seen the temple and was always intrigued about it, and the church, she had a few friends that were members and had invited her from time to time to go to church, or some small Gospel invitation, and so many little things added up in her life and she decided to talk to us, and come to church. Truly God is placing people in each and every one of our paths to share the Gospel with. Even if some people may at first reject the invitation to come to church or something, many of those small invitations build up over time and bring someone to that "Curiosity" about the Gospel.

Well the transfer is almost over, and we will be getting our transfer calls some time this week. I don't really know whats going to happen, but I hope to be able to stay here and finish Elder Bigelows training. 

That's about all for this week. Everyone have a great week!

Elder Porritt