I
had some
miracles that i wanted to share with you! Last week we had some less
active families at church and this week we found two more on accident! i
was walking and i saw a lady walking with grocery bags, she looked nice
so i smiled and said goodnight. she stopped and said "hi elders." turns
out her family is less active, but we visited them and now are working
for them all to come back to church: edilene, ideoberto, karen, and
gabriel. The same night, our plans fell through and started knocking
doors. i felt like we need to knock at a house that was kind of dark and
looked like no one was home. i followed the prompting and we found
another less active member- elizete.
We also had some less than
pleasing experiences with less active members... some deny the existence
of god entirely, some only have "doubts" about joseph and the
truthfulness of the restored gospel, and others pick and choose what
they want to believe or what applies to them... i talked with president
and he helped me understand how to act in a circumstance "desagradável"
with these less active members.
Also, i have some news for you
guys. I started to study doctrine and covenants and i had a very
powerful experience with the spirit. i read D&C 1-3. D&C 3 talks
about what? martin harris and the 116 pages that were lost. what
happened? joseph asked once -NO!, again- NO!, again- ... okay. And now
the book of mormon is missing 116 pages of doctrine and history. I have
thought about extending my mission more than a few times. the first time
is asked i went to mission conference with the question in mind- NO!
was the answer. when a member of the 70 came is went with the question
in my head- NO! was the answer. I started to think about extending and
the Lord said: okay. But recently i have been pondering and when i read
D&C 3 sunday morning i thought: "this could be me" during the
sacrament i talked with the Lord for a while and in the end i decided to
not extend and come home the 24th of September. when i said that in my
head, a peace came
over me so strongly that i knew the Lord has accepted my mission. He
wants me to work until the end! But He is happy with me. I asked the
Lord to in some way confirm all of this and so today as i talked with
president he said the area presidency has asked the mission presidents
to not extend missions and a few months ago a missionary died in a
service project with 25 months on his mission. imagine if he had gone
home on the right date?
I love my mission and i will
serve faithfully until the end! but i will be home next month. 24th of
september. i will email you my itinerary a soon as i have it.
I love you guys. The church is so freaking true!
-Élder Grondel jr.
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