Smiles, Tears, and Families

So this week was very good and also draining and exciting. We are really having a great time with our investigators but we had very few at Church yesterday. I still am not entirely sure why either. Seemed to be a series of coincidences that prevented it. Interesting, huh?

But last week we had the wonderful opportunity of working with the Chamunorwa family and they are really great. We shared with them the first time and they were really receptive and the next time we came back they said they are available for the date of their baptism and they believe and are excited to be baptized and then the next lesson we took their tea! I was really excited for their progress. They have come so far! Very exciting and can't wait for their baptisms.

Then in another lesson with another investigator who stays a bit far we shared with him and found out he has been taught by one our Recent Converts and knows all about the Restoration, The Gospel of Jesus Christ, and The Word of Wisdom. He had taken extensive notes and he was really excited to be baptized by proper authority. I felt very smiley that day.

Then this week was an interesting week for some of the missionaries, one companionship in particular. They were having problems and so we went there and talked with them for about an hour and a half and then the next day called and things were not any better. So we had to go back, myself and the zone leaders, and had a seriously long conversation. We helped them to have companionship inventory where they spoke about conflicts and made goals to improve and how they can better themselves and bring the Spirit back into their companionship. We took over 5 hours discussing with them and their were high emotions and much was discussed but things have been a bit better since then and they are improving. We had them pray, one in the start and one at the end and they were among the most fervent and sincere prayers I have ever heard offered. I was reminded of Enos and his 'wrestle' with God and felt like I now have a better understanding of the power of prayer. They were powerful prayers.

But also this week I contacted this guy who was walking home and he seemed interested so I got his details and then we went by his home a little later and found his whole family. So we have been teaching them and the churches they are going to now are really different. They have been struggling a bit to make the adjustment but they are humble and very good people who have felt the goodness of the message we share. They have the desire all it is now is to help them make the adjustment which can be very difficult.

But they are a wonderful family. I also had the opportunity to teach a family that I had referred to another area. I was on exchanges and that was nice. They are doing well and they even remembered me! So that was really cool. The work is moving forward! Go on mission!