Hola todos!
Hope you all had a great week! For me it felt so long! But that’s a good thing this time. I am just so excited for the family we are teaching to be baptized!
Last Monday we went fishing but didn’t catch anything. We have also started watching The Chosen as a mission. We watched the first episode. I would love to hear what y'all think about it!
Tuesday we had a meeting in the morning but later in the day we were grinding trying to find people. We ran into this guy named Hilario who was super down and by Friday we had invited to be baptized and were going to pick a date but then he wasn't sure and is still attached to his old preacher. He is struggling to come to terms with that fact that we are the only authorized church of God. So he doesn't want to talk to us anymore until he had made up his mind.
Wednesday we had a lesson with Emely and she also seemed super down and had a ton of good questions and everything was making sense to her. We went over Friday planning on setting a date and she asked our beliefs on same sex marriage. We briefly summarized the church's standings and at that point she didn’t want to hear more. She thought we were saying that we don’t love people with same sex desires. We tried to re- explain it to her but she just kept blowing up in our face saying she didn’t want to be converted and things like that. I was super sad after that but we went contact grinding instead of getting down. Hopefully one day, missionaries can stop by and she will have a change of heart.
Thursday we had exchanges and I went to the zone leader’s area and we had a lot of good contacts and lessons. It was a good break from leading our area all the time.
Friday we had a lot of struggles finding and teaching people because of the above mentioned people. I have been super excited this whole week for people we have been finding and want to put everyone on date. So it was sad the two before we couldn't, but then we finally got in contact with a former person the missionaries had taught and she accepted a date to be baptized!
Saturday we did a lot of contacting and had a few good lessons. We are still preparing our family for their baptism! Then on the way home a guy we had contacted in a past exchange reached out to me and said that because we reached out to him months earlier he is in a better place and believes more in God and is a changed man. We invited him to be baptized but since then I haven't heard from him. We are hoping he gets back to us soon!
This really is the Lord’s work and he is always listening to prayers and waiting to answer them! We will always have trials and afflictions, but I know that as we strive to do what is right and to become closer to God, our loving Heavenly Father and his son Jesus Christ, we will reap the rewards he has in store. I am so grateful for this time to be in Brownsville, the Promised Land!!
Hope you all have a great week!
Elder Tolman
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