Dear Family,
Mom, congratulations on your finals! The Lord does work--and we can see His miracles when we look for them. :) On that note we had a really cool experience giving a blessing this week. One of the families of investigators that we´re teaching has a son that has had a high fever for a couple of weeks. The medicine that they'd given him had no effect. We gave him a blessing and two days later when we came back he was just fine. I don´t think that they realized the significance of what happened, but I definitely did. I know that God is still a God of miracles today just as much as He was anciently.
Ok, so my time is short--again. :/ Sorry about that. This week started off really awesome. We found 5 new investigators who we set baptismal dates with. That was pretty cool. The really uncool part was that not even one of them came to church on Sunday (although they had all committed to doing so), which also meant that their baptismal dates no longer exist (since they have to go to Church five times before being baptized). The family that we found last week was really excited (we found the dad on Tuesday and had an awesome lesson and set baptismal dates with him and his wife), but then on Friday, the pastor from the Church that they had recently stopped attending, came to see them and talked to the mom. And since the family is indiginous (we think they´re Tzotzils but we´re not sure) and very humble, it also means that it´s a very male dominated culture and the women have very little say. So, having said that, she sees the pastor as a huge authority figure and he told her not to go to church with us anymore or even to accept us in her house. So, that was really frustrating and we wanted to have a few words with that pastor but unfortunately (or rather fortunately haha) he was no longer there when we got there. So she won´t let us talk to her anymore but we´re going to see what her husband says when we have an opportunity to meet with him.
So, it would have ended up being a pretty discouraging week, but last night we had stake leadership training with the Area Seventy (his name is Elder Reyes). President Cárdenas called us on Saturday and told us that we would be attending this meeting. So, we went and Elder Reyes talked about Hastening the Work of Salvation. And he said that the purpose of the ward council is to carry this work out. So, what we gathered together in Ward Councils and made lists of people (one list of non-members and one list of members) for us to visit. Actually, we didn´t make the list, the ward council did. Our ward council came up with more than 50 names on each list. So now, we´re psyched to work with the all these new people and we ended the week on a great note. ...And better yet, the ward is now focused on filling our planners and giving us people to teach. :)
I´m so grateful for modern revelation and I know that this work will move forward so much more powerfully this way.
I love you all! Have a great week!
Con mucho amor,
Elder Andrew Nickerl
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