February
24, 2015 Letter
Hola Familia!
What crazy weather you all have had lately. I really miss the
snow, I hope the winter that I get home has a lot of snow. Wow! I can't hardly believe
that Emma is already home, and that she's engaged. Congrats!At least for now I don't have plans get engaged in at least the
first month of returning, but we'll just see won't we.
This week we were
blessed to have many beautiful experiences. Our unity as a companionship has
improved so much and I feel like we are teaching with more power and we are
learning how to rely more than ever upon the spirit.
We are teaching a new investigator who we found last week. We
have been working a lot with the ward directory looking for less actives/inactive
that were at one point Endowed but have expired recommends. We were looking for
someone, but they had moved and no longer lived there so we went next door to
ask the neighbors if they knew something about her.
A lady and her mother (the mother´s name is Clara) in a wheel
chair were outside of the house next door so we talked to them about the person
and in the end ended up sharing with them about what it is we teach. Clara is
about 65 and has bone cancer and other spinal problems. About 4 years ago other missionaries
made contact with her after she was nominated for a wheel chair from the
churches wheel chair fund (LDS Philanthropies). She used to listen to the
missionaries but we think both the missionaries were
taken out suddenly and they could never find her again because she lives in a
very hard to find place very far from the majority of the area.
She has so much faith, she has lost her daughter recently, but despite
that she continues trusting so much in God and is getting ready to be baptized
the 7th of March.
Since we found her at the end of the week, we couldn't find
anyone that could go pick her up. So we left early Sunday morning from the
house at 7:15 to go get her. She lives about a 45 min walk from the church, but
I didn't think her wheel chair would make it all the way without breaking
through the dirt/rocky roads.
We were able to take her to the closest bus stop
and take the bus (which recently in the last 2 months have received hydraulic
ramps for people in wheel chairs) to the church.
Everyone was so kind to her
when we got there. Everyone said Hi, gave her a kiss (that's how they say hi
here) and tried to get to know her. She was there for all three meetings and
almost every leader approached us and asked us what they could do to help her.
She loved the experience, even though it was physically
exhausting for her, but she was so excited to come back she told everyone on
her way out "see you next week!"
We talked with the President of the Young men and with the
elders quorum and they are already organizing for at least one youth and adult
to go by to pick her up. They were so excited for the opportunity to serve.
It was such a blessing to first of all meet her because my faith
has been strengthened so much; and second of all to serve her and make it
possible for her to go to the chapel. And I'm so excited for the Charla we
have with her tonight. We're going to bring some members so they can get to
know her.
I know that this is a true work, and that the Lord is always
preparing the hearts of the people to be able to receive the gospel, we just
need to be diligent and look for them.
Well, I love you all and hope everything is going well for you
all back home.
Chao,
Élder
Benjamin Taylor
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