Am I just another scene for a movie that you´ve seen one hundred times?"
My dear family.
I sure do love you all a lot. I have dad breath (I call it dad breath, it means onion breath, but dad eats a lot of onions and gets onion breath sometimes, so I call it dad breath. I like onions a lot now, on like anything. Like father like son.. right?) It´s been a good week. but very busy.
I love the work everything is going great! SO last Wednesday, we went to the woman in our ward´s house, Denise. We were teaching Junior there and he didn´t show up and Denise´s daughter comes in and says that Junior doesn´t want to be baptized anymore. So Denise asks if we can come by the next day to talk to him in the morning. We couldn´t, we had to go to Paranaguá. She said well Friday. Couldn´t. We had to go to Curitiba. Saturday was the day we marked for his interview. FAITH was something super important this week. I told Denise, "pray for inspiration on what to say and can you go talk to Junior and help him remember he wants to be baptized?" She looked at me, scared, "Me, Elder?" "Absolutely!" I said that we would show up at 10 at her house on Saturday with the zone leaders to do the interview.
Thursday was cut short. We went to Paranaguá in the morning and returned that night. We slept at the zone leader´s house and got up super early and caught the bus to Curitiba and we went back to the city that I love. So we went to renew both (mine and Elder Holliday´s) visas. I got it renewed. To cut the long story short, we spent the WHOLE day in Curitiba. I got to see President Cordon (I was embarrassed. My hair was long for lack of money) and I saw the secretaries and the assistants (whom I love) and a few other old friends. It was good. but we got back in Paranaguá at 8:10. That is an oddly specific time for me to remember right? It´s because the last bus to Matinhos left at 8. So we had to spend the night in Paranaguá again. We woke up and caught an early bus to Matinhos and showered and prepared. When the zone leaders came we went to Denise´s house. We got there she was smiling and said " I don´t know what happened, but he wants to get baptized." So he had the interview and passed. Sunday was a great baptism. I included photos of and it was fun.
That night we went to the ward council meeting and introduced some ideas we had about how to better our missionary program in the ward. Things are starting to get better.
What was super neat as well was on Monday, we had a district meeting. I gave the training. It was on "revelation through prayer" and about how we need to teach our investigators how to receive personal revelation through prayer. We talked about this one investigator that lives in the other missionaries area. She had been investigating the church for a LONG time. Like 2 years and still didn´t want to be baptized. So we decided that we would do this revelation through prayer with our investigators. They called me yesterday practically shouting with joy. "We did the excercise. She prayed and got an answer. She will be baptized this Sunday!" How neat is that!
We also had a neat experience this week. We´ve been teaching this girl for like a month and her only problem is coffee. She drinks it. So we talked to her a lot about keeping commandments and being baptized and all the stuff. We went by her house yesterday morning. She wasn´t feeling well. I said "What happened?" "I didn´t drink coffee last night or tonight." I just about pooped my pants with happiness. and she could tell. It is so good to see people keeping commandments.
The church is true! The Book of Mormon is true too. I don´t doubt it at all. I know it! Joseph was a prophet of God! I love you all!
Com Amor!
-Elder Nathan Askins
P.S. Pday next week will be on Friday. I don´t really know why yet. I love you!
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