The Best Two Years!: The Restroration

Hola a todos!

This week I was pondering a lot on the apostasy and the restoration. There are so many examples of the apostasy in the bible, but people still don’t want to believe that the Church has been restored by Prophets. We stopped by one of our people on date, Third, and while we were talking about modern day Prophets his uncle came up trying to tell us the bible says there are no more prophets. It was sad and frustrating. It led me to think how I can help people understand better and then I remembered how others always ask me well if you didn’t grow up in the church then you wouldn’t be in the religion you are. I've always taken a little offense and then shared that I know for myself and that it has nothing to do with the fact that I was born in the Church but recently I have pondered more on that and I am so grateful I was! If I wasn’t taught by good parents at a young age what I needed to do to be happy and if they had never invited me to act on my own then I would have never received my own testimony. It is such a blessing! I would encourage you to think upon the mercies of God and the times that he has blessed you. Alma 5 has some really good questions of reflection!

So this week on Monday we went hiking with brother Peña. He was so funny. We went to the river and took a few pictures.

Tuesday, we had a few lessons. We tried meeting with Kayla but she wasn’t home. The same thing happened on Wednesday except we got to her house the same time she got home, and she ignored us so we got the idea she doesn't want to be baptized anymore.

Wednesday, we had a zone conference over zoom. I was sad because we couldn't go in person. Then we had a ton of errands to run before we went out to visit people. We taught Kassy and she is so funny. Wants to know so much and a lot of it is things about God that we don’t know. We call that deep doctrine. We had mutual and played kickball, but only Emilee came so that was sad. We still had a good time though.

Thursday, we had district meeting. Elder Taylor's birthday was on Friday, so we were going to mordida him. As he was leaving the building, his companions were outside with a cake and last second, he limbo-ed under it! Elder Jordan and I were behind him too and had to dodge it. It made a big mess in the church and we told him he had to come clean it up. But we had a backup cake and he wasn’t expecting it so we got him good. Then later for our branch activity we watched the first vision and then painted our own interpretations of it.

Friday, we drove up to Zapata in the morning and did a blitz with the elders. I was with Elder Winward. We had a few good lessons. Some of them we had to drop because they weren't keeping commitments and then our last lesson was a family, they we’re teaching and we were planning on putting them on date. They had questions about baptizing little kids and we answered their questions, and we were about to set a date and the dad gets up and starts talking about a whole bunch of stuff. And long story short, goes oh by the way we are also members, you can look in your records. Sure enough they were already baptized so that was awkward. Lol

Saturday, we had Carlos baptism and then after that we worked on some Facebook posts. We haven’t done a video in a while. Then we went to go out contacting but remembered we had to go find a receipt, so I was making calls while Elder Jordan was contacting. We got to one street and the first people we contacted seemed super cool. Then we got a phone call from a member that she was at the church to give us food super early. We were so sad we couldn't contact more, but the Lord blessed us with at least that one. We took the food to the sisters and ate in the back of our truck. Later we visited Kassy and she said she didn’t want to get baptized. Everyone was telling her she wasn’t ready. Including her brother who is already a member. But while he was there, we asked her to summarize the previous lesson. She did it with ease and her brother was super impressed and said never mind you already know more than I do. So, we were able to put her back on date.

Sunday, we visited members all day long. Found out this one guy who comes almost every week isn't baptized so we are going to ask him this week.

Love you all!
Elder Tolman