Oct 12~ Knocking Doors

This week was super awesome seriously! Ill tell you all a couple experiences.

On Thursday this past week, It was 7 at night and all of our appointments fell through by this time, it was a day of just walking walking and walking ( btw our area is the biggest area in the mish), so I was pretty dead by 7 pm, and we were thinking we were finally going to have an appointment with an investigator..and we got there, and the appointment fell through as well. We were with a member and we decided to try to find some old investigators the old missionaries were teaching, and we went to their houses and nothing. I was getting frustrated not going to lie, but I felt the need to just start knocking doors (not the most effective thing, after five weeks in my area I think i have had one lesson by knocking doors). 

Anyways, we were at the end of a street, and i said to my comp, "we are going to knock the door of every house that has their lights on, until we find that person that wants to listen to us." So we started out and every person on this street rejected us until we got to the last house on the street! This house was blasting music but we knocked it anways. A lady came out and started talking to us about the church, and we told her why we were here, and my comp asked can we come in and share this message with you? She stopped to think for a while, and she said yea come in! I started fist pumping because I was so excited. 

ANYWAYS, to sum up the lesson, about how it went. She started asking us a lot of questions about the church, why we are here, (because this was the first time she talked to missionaries) and she told us she was always curious about our church. Turns out when her first kid was born, she was looking on the internet for a name, and came across the name Joseph Smith.  She was interested by his story because he says that God and Jesus Christ appeared to him as an answer to his simple prayer. She was interested in the fact he asked to know what church was true.  So to sum up the story, after a lot of opposition from her fam, she named her kid Joseph. She then told us she has always believed in God, and that she has a firm testimony that He answers prayers. She told us about a dream she had where an angel came to her and asked her "Are you happy?" and she said no, i am not, and the angel asked, "Why not" and she said, Because I am not with my family. And the angel said, "Well okay, ill come back", and walked away... So I felt prompted to ask her, "Do you know how you can be with your family, not only for this life, but the next as well?"... The Spirit filled the room and she said, Honestly I don't but I would like to know. After that I had the opportunity to bear my testimony about how families can be together forever, and the HOW as well. Anyways we finished the appointment saying that we would come back, and the Hermana offered the last prayer. In her prayer said, "Thanks for sending these two missionaries to my house, i dont know why, I felt like i needed to let them in, thanks for giving me this feeling of peace, thanks to these 2 missionaries."  Just to top everything of as we were leaving I asked the Hermana- Hey where's your kid thats named Joseph? I would like to meet him! So she called her two kids (5 and 3) to come out, and I freaked out and said whats up Joseph!!! And then I looked at the Hermana and asked her, whats your other kid's name..."Oh his name is Hyrum but with a J.." What... and my comp told her.. Uhh hermana, you know that Joseph Smith's brother is named Hyrum right?....and then the Hermana started freaking out! "NOOO I DIDNT KNOW!!" I looked at her with a huge smile and said...yea we will be coming back dont worry hahaha!! Crazy experience of the week.

Also, good news. About a month a go i wrote about Roberto, the investigator we found in Huanuco that had the hernia... well he got baptized last Saturday!!! So happy for him! Yea! Hope you all have a good week!! Something I tell my investigators out here, something I really have learned on the mission is I don't believe in coincidences. Love you all!! 

Here's some pics with my new comp Elder Fernandez from Chile, and with my old comp Elder Garcia who's going home! 

Elder Baca

Garcia

Fernandez (and pancakes!)

Hey dad!! hahah i was just talking about sharing a room with jd with my comp and how that has helped me in the mish! haaha  I am loving Cerro! Its rough but its awesome!! Cerro is why I came on the mish!! Thats what I always said, big area, rough people, bad food, water 2-3 times a week to bathe hhaaha its like camping but awesome!! Im loving it! Thanks dad!! I had the opportunity this past week to get called on by an area seventy Elder Godoy while he was giving his talk to bear my testimony and talk about Ward Councils, it was a sweet experience! I  also had my intervies with Pres Henderson. Went good!! Love you dad! Have a good one!