I´m dead. Soooo tired and over heated. This is the best time of my mission by far!
We had three baptisms this weekend!!!! Omar (14), Maria (100+), and Juan Carlos (100+ years of investigating). Maria is actually like sixty something, but looks older, and Juan Carlos has actually been married to a member for about ten or more years. They are all three, great baptisms! Incredible converts!
So, the Spirit has a way of touching peoples´ hearts in different ways. My comp thinks that I´m weird for wanting to get married after the mission before I hit two years home (max). He said that he would prefer to enjoy being single for just a while and study. I expressed my opinion that that is hypocritical to serve two years, constantly telling people to not procrastinate making covenants, and then putting the most important one off for no reason after the mission... you know me.
But then I got some pic of Raeanne´s wedding and that made him trunky I think. haha! And then we were listening to some good old MOTAB one morning while getting ready for the day, and my comp comes out of nowhere and says, "you know, I think it would actually be pretty cool to get married after the mission. I was just listening to the music and thinking of how cool it would be to have a family..." Yeah! hahahahaha. I thought it was really funny, but some of you single folks (young, RMs) may not. Oh well...
Another amazing spiritual experience that we had. We contacted several weeks ago a man named Romulo. He lives with his family, and I contacted him because he was playing guitar. I like the guitar (even though I only remember how to play John Mayer´s version of "Free Falling") so I started to talk to him. We lost track of him, but recently my comp felt like going back. I was on divisions yesterday when we taught him the Restoration. Let me tell you how that went.
"Have you been able to read the pamphlet we gave you?"
He responded affirmatively, and with little questions, I quickly could tell he had read the whole thing very well. We went on to clear up a couple of very small things (because he really understood it all already) and then talked about baptism. He quickly accepted, and I reminded him that marriage was necessary before baptism. He said that his wife would be totally willing. All he had to do was say so. I was pretty blown away. The problem is that this guy is way way way prepared, and his wife is way way way deep in apostasy. But we´re going to help him anyway.
At the end of the lesson, I asked him to pray. It went something like this.
"Father, thank you so much for this opportunity to visit with these missionaries. Thank you for helping me know the truth..." then it got a little quite. "...and for this moment of happiness and peace. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen."
I looked up and saw in his eyes total joy mixed with what were almost tears. This guy was really prepared, and I´m so excited for him. It was very clear that he has been looking for the truth for a very long time. He just didn´t know where to find it.
This church is TRUE. This is Jesus Christ´s church. The message of the Restoration is real. It really happened, and has been predicted by prophets since forever.
I love you all.
Elder Kent Thalman
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