Dear Family,
Well another week has flown by, and along with it, many events and activities , conferences, exchanges, trying to find a place for a hair-cut, all in the unconventional life of a missionary. We move from day to day planning for one event, but knowing the unlikelyhool of keeping to that event.
As a Zone we have a goal to teach 500 non-member lessons before the end of the transfer. We have been focusing solely on how we can achieve 10 non-member lessons (what it averaged out to) a week. We have two weeks and are at 205 lessons. We Know Miracles, so we are going to work our hardest to reach this goal we have set. Keep praying for us! We have previously seen miracles and know that they are based in the foundation of our faithful families' prayers and hope.
on another note, we have been teaching a part-member family whom have taken the Missionary Lessons for years now. (They are mostly Spanish speaking, so the language barrier is pretty thick). The father is a member and speaks fairly good English, but the wife speaks no English at all.
The other night we decided to focus this family in on the Book of Mormon and see if we can't help them see the importance of it in their lives. Every time previous when we have asked them to read, they said that they were too busy. So we went over to see them and only the father was there to talk with. We brought up the Book of Mormon and he shut down immediately. The more we talked, the more he wouldn't. I said something that pushed the envelope too far, and complete and awkward silence ensued. This silence lasted about a minute before the Spirit flooded the room. He began to tell us all of his family's problesm and all the negativity in his life. He expounded on these things for a couple of minutes before the Spirit testified to hiim why HE needed to read the Book of Mormon. All we needed to do was listen and give him chapters to read.
Love you!
Love,
Elder Hamblin
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