He will guide us to the miracles

This week we saw quite a few miarcles contacting and finding with the spirit.

We did divisions with the zone leaders and we had some good experiences in their area. We went looking for a part member family and we knocked the window next door that sells fruit. We asked if he knew them and he said, "yeah they moved 2 years ago." We decided to knock anyway and a 50 year old man came out. He told us he wasn't really interested, But then he said you can talk to my daughter.  We were a little confused and he went back in and started sternly saying sal! sal! (come out, come out). then he moved some chairs around and said passen (come in). We said permiso (I have no idea what it means something like excuse me but it is polite to say it when you walk in a room or out of a conversation) and walked in. Finally after a little more coaxing his daughter came out crying. She told us she is stuck on drugs and can't stop no matter how much she tries and promises her dad. She got a drug addict boy friend who she was supposed to help out, but he just ended up helping her in. We taught the word of wisdom and she said she was thinking about going to a church to have it help her. We for sure showed up at the right moment. Just another lesson about how important good friends are.

Back in my area:

We also went to look for an investigator we had, and we knocked twice on the door and she didn't come out. We decided to go clap at the house next door and a lady answered the door we had just been knocking. She was the investigators sister and she brought chairs out even in the cold and told us she was looking for help to help get her family back united and happy. We taught the restoration and she told us that even though she will be moving she will be reading the Book of Mormon a whole lot to be getting help out of it.

We also found Laura while visiting some investigators and we went by her house last night. We asked her if she had ever thought about why there are so many churches. She said, "I always ask which one is the true church." We explained that you just have to pray, read the Book or Mormon and ask God and he will guide you.

While we were teaching her we also found her friend who told us he wants to just come to church to see how it is and keep going if he likes it. We are hoping he is looking for the spirit because he will be able to feel it when he gets there if he is.

The investigators we were visiting when we found Laura was Diego and Mayra they have been looking into the church since before I got here and they came to church right before I got here. Diego had left right before I got here but this week he got back. (they are just a very unstable couple. They break up and then are living together and then break up) we are hoping to be able to help them get to the point that they are stable enough to get married and baptized or one of them makes the decision to split up and get baptized. We will see what happens. Diego has a lot more interest in the message than Mayra so we are looking at how we can help him progress. Diego started reading again and praying and he just seems so much happier. They don't understand much but he recognizes that he feels good when he reads the Book of Mormon, prays, and goes to church.

With them we actually were thinking hard how to teach and we decided to teach obedience. It all started in our companionship study with a role play practice where I felt a little bored as Diego and we ended up with a game of simon says (it worked really well with Mayra's 3 kids) and then teaching obedience and giving them a poster with pictures of praying, reading the Book of Mormon and going to church all cut out of a pamphlet.

We also found an old investigator that never made it to church or anything. We were able to teach her and her son and she is making lots of excuses why they have never been to church. We explain that there is always opposition in these things and that sacrifice brings forth the blessings of heaven. Her son who then wasn't participating said, "I want to go to church." He has a fear of being with a lot of people and was excited. She was less excited and they didn't show up because the people in the cemetery were moving her mothers body this Sunday morning. We are going to do all we can for this Sunday.

We all have duties and things that God hopes that we will do. When we look for his help and pray in faith then follow his guidance he will guide us to the miracles that he has put in our way. When we look for them they can help us be much more grateful.

Love,

Elder Dallin Skouson