We did community service
everyday this last week except Monday and Sunday. We swept up the streets and
gutters of Kingstown. This week I learned a lot about Faith. I was talking with Elder
Jacobson yesterday about how we've had so many miracles this week. The young
men that we're teaching were reverent during all of church and we finally got
one of our investigators that we've been working with for about 3 months to
church and she loved it! It was not at all what she had expected. That also
taught me about teaching true doctrine will change the behavior of people more
than just telling them to change their behavior. It reminds me of a quote on
page 19 of Preach My Gospel. But the main thing is Linda finally came this
week! Another miracle we saw was with one of the young men named Michael. We
were teaching one of his friends and then at the end Elder Jacobson and I were
bearing our testimony's about the Book of Mormon, and then out of the blue, Michael started to bear his testimony about how he knew the Book of Mormon is
true too because he had been praying and he received an answer to his prayers.
Jadese finally decided to stop breaking the law of chastity by choosing to move
out from her boyfriend of 10 years because he wouldn't marry her. We were
worried for a while about her, but she is back on track and should be in a new
apartment with her daughter as soon as she finds a place. One of the young women
received an answer to her prayers about the Book of Mormon and she has a
baptismal date now. We have continued to work with a young man named Tristen
and he is almost all ready for baptism. It's been a great week. Faith precedes
the miracle/s. Before being a missionary, I didn't think that I had a lot of
faith. However, in order to have miracles happen, I must have faith. I must
have more faith than I think I do. It's that way with a lot of things. It
reminds me of running. You don't know how much you really have until you have
to push it to the limits and then you find out your true potential. This week
started off really difficult, and I felt like I was being pushed to my limits,
but then everything else fell into place and it turned out to be my best week so
far.
Hurrah for Israel!
Love, Seth
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