Alright sooo wayyyy lame this week sorry, dont really have any funny stories, but i have learned a ton this week!!! also, sorry, but om already running short on time this week , sooo sorry, my comp and i always leave the emailing till last on pday and always arrive late to internet, i think we are gonna start writing earlier because of that... but anyways, the week:
My comp and i started something new this week! We have been so fixed on providing investigators with spiritual experiences, so they develop the desire to learn more and act themselves, but it wasnt quite working as we wanted, so we changed ut up a bit... before we always taught the first lesson focuseing a lot on the restoration, its necesity with the authority that was lost, and then we just quickly mentioned at the end that theres anotehr book, the Book of Mormon, which they can read to learn more.... but we were going about it all wrong....
We flipped around the way we work this week and now, before anything else, are just briefly expaining to people that since The Lord loves us and still wants us to have the fulness of Christs doctrine, hes given us more scripture, and then we bear our testimonies, they feel the spirit, and then we identify what they are feeling as the spirit and tell them that its not us, but the truth that make them feel that way, and we make them promise us to read and pray, and its been working suuuper well!!!! Everysingle person, every single one this week has had answer, now granted a few havent recognized it, or choose not to, but yes they have had it, but most are now doing super well!
Ive learned that its easy for people to think its logical to feel good around two young foreigners with white shirts and ties, easy for them to admire us (or my comp at least), but the real difference comes when they have to make a decision. It starts with reading a bit on their own time, then again as they make the big choices with faith to stop drinking coffee and all, to kick out their boyfirend or girlfriend, to skip a saturday night party, get to bed, and come to church early in the morning, that they realize its not just two young clean cut kids preaching the word, but its actually God´s love and protection coming into their lives which He has always promised us and His son made possible for us...
Entonces sí ha sido una semana llena de experiencias espirituales, pero me di cuenta de algo importante esta semana. Aprendí que me gusta escuchar de las experiencias espirituales y PERSONALES de los investigadores más de lo que me gusta estar en esas experiencias con ellos en las charlas, y al buscar las maneras de tratar de que ellos tengan estas experiencias, he visto más resultados también! Además, no puedo medir mi éxito en los resultados de los que enseño, sino en mi propia conversión, y sé que me he convertido a mí mismo más esta semana, sé que Cristo es nuestro Salvador, y que ésta es su iglesia restaurada, en el nombre de Jesucristo, amen.
les amo
nos vemos
Élder Tenney
ps sooooo sorry for not sending pictures in two weeks now, ive got some good ones that i promise will come next week!
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