So this week in
Itacoatiara was interesting. Monday was the normal p day. Just hanging
back and trying to relax with the little time that we had. Tuesday was
District Meeting and my companion actually managed to make apple pie.
The sisters had managed to locate brown sugar and Tuesday morning, my
companion actually to pull off the miracle that is apple pie. It wasn´t
as good as normal american apple pie, but it was still pie. Super
good. Wednesday was pretty normal. Thursday began what is called
Fecanni here. Basically it is just a party that goes on for 4 days
straight and beats just about any college party that I´ve ever heard
about. lots of drinking and singing and music. Needless to say, we
stayed far away from it, but it was difficult at times b/c after about 5pm,
everybody would just start going to fecanni and not be in home so it
got a little interesting at times trying to find people to teach.
Friday we had a really cool experience with a lesson. We went to teach
the mom of a recent convert, who is already a member of the church but
its been 10 years that shes been to church, so its kinda of been awhile.
So we got there and talked for her for about two hours just trying to
teach her and answer here a lot of questions. She is super smart, and
had lots of questions like, how is the god of the old testament the same
as the new testament if they are so different, how can god repent if
hes perfect, continuing this way. So for about an hour we tried to
answer her questions, but we were getting nowhere, she just didn´t want
to accept it. Right when we were about to get up and walk out of her
house, I don´t remember how or why but we started to teach the Plan of
Salvation and the spirit entered into the room and made all the
difference. She started to actually listen and things, as she put it,
started to make sense to her. Everything we said started to really make
sense to her and by the end of the lesson, she said that everything
that she had doubted had started to make sense to her. We taught her
again Saturday about the family and the Book of Mormon and the same
thing happened. It is amazing to see the power of the Spirit working in
these peoples lives. When we try to convince a person without the
influence of the spirit, we get nowhere, but when the spirit enters into
our lessons, then it can testify and we can witness true conversion
happen. You can never truly teach and testify without the the spirit
present. Super cool experience.
That was my week this
week! Hope you have a great week this week . Good luck at the
invitational this week Same. Hope that you all have a great week! Miss
all of you!
Love
Elder Battraw
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