But seriously, we've taught so many lessons this week. We were able to teach at least one person every day this last week except for Tuesday and Thursday. On Monday we taught Gabriel again, Wednesday was Gatlin and the Alfaro's, Friday was Conner and Rob, Saturday was John, and Sunday was Kyle. It doesn't seem like a lot, but after not teaching much for weeks on end, it feels like blessings are raining upon our area.
So just a little about each of these people we taught this week:
Gabriel isn't really progressing anymore. He likes to talk about religion, but he's not in it to change; just for a good conversation.
Gatlin is kind of crazy. He's a smart guy who studied theology in college, but he's really just looking to bash with us.
The Alfaro family is a less active part member family. The dad is from Costa Rica, and the mom is Russian. The mom isn't a member, and isn't looking to be one either. They have two daughters, Daniella and Veronica, who we started to teach. Brother Alfaro has been less active for a while, but he's open to us coming over and teaching his kids. This lesson was amazing, because while we taught the girls the full restoration, the lesson seemed to be focused on Brother
Alfaro. We were able to have him tell his conversion story to his daughters, bear his own testimony, and he was crying through the whole thing. I feel like we were able to strengthen his testimony and faith again, so he'll be more open to us coming back again.
Conner is very interesting. He's studied every religious book you can imagine including the Satanic Bible (which he believes is just a bunch of mumbo jumbo, fortunately). Also he's heavy into drugs and he's got a huge tattoo on his back that he showed us. And to top it all off, he is schizophrenic and occasionally has some episodes. We've taught his dad a little before, and he had come into the room and sort of ruined our lesson with his dad. However, we were walking to our knocking spot when we crossed paths with him and he said that he wanted to get another copy of the Book of Mormon (he accidentally burned the last one on a granite altar when he was high and having one of his episodes). He then invited us to his small room where he lived, and we were able to teach him the plan of salvation. I think it's so cool that even though he has all this stuff going on in his life, he has a legitimate desire to learn.
Rob is a crazy guy who loves bamboo. He calls himself Roboo, and he wants us to call him that too. This is the second time we've gone over, and both times he's been super drunk. We talked about the Plan of Salvation, and then he told us to come back in six months. Haha.
John used to be in the military, and he grew up Christian. However, he's atheist because he says that he's seen too much evidence that there isn't a God. He's open to learn, but he won't pray because it doesn't make sense for him to do so.
Kyle is one of the people we found recently and we were able to teach him the restoration last night. He's a father of a small family, and he's a math teacher and softball/basketball coach of a middle school. He's way awesome, and he doesn't know all that much about religion, so he doesn't have hardly any bias at all.
So those are the highlights of this week. Oh, also this lady we work with at the food bank is like our mom (her name is Lori), and we're starting to do service for her and teach her the lessons. She was really close to baptism at one point, but then the missionaries got transferred and everyone forgot about her. She's super solid and already close to baptism. But that's all for this week!
Pictures:
Lori's pictures of us working in her yard.
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