Well, this week was a good one. We started off the week by meeting a really cool person named Victor. We went to his street to visit someone else I had met a few weeks back, and Victor was out in his garage with the door open, so we walked over to talk to him. Near the start of the conversation he told us he believed in God but he had previously had some bad experiences with church and had stopped going to church and let his relationship with God slip. He hadn't gone to church, read the scriptures, or prayed in a while. We had talked to him a little about that and he expressed that he knew it was something he needed to get back to, so we offered to share our message. He said yes, and we we're able to say a prayer with him and teach the restoration. We focused a lot on our relationship with God, that He really is our Father and we are His children, and we talked about why prayer was important in the context of who God is. At the end of the lesson we asked if Victor would be willing to say the closing prayer, and he said yes. Then he said one of most sincere prayers I've ever heard and talked to God about how grateful he was that we came today and how he wanted help as he tries to come closer to God again. It was really special, the Spirit was very strong.
The other big things from this week happened over the weekend. It started out on Saturday when we had a lesson with Nick. Nick has probably been the most solid person we've been teaching since I got to the area. He loves reading the Book of Mormon and he is starting to get really good at feeling and recognizing it when he feels the Spirit. The biggest thing he's been having a hard time with is just coming to church, so we've been trying to help him with that for a while. Last week though, he came to the stake center to watch the Saturday morning session of general conference. (He didn't tell us he was there, and he actually went into the wrong room where they were showing it in Korean, and rather than texting us he just stayed in there and watched the whole thing in Korean! It had English subtitles, so he just read those and liked it a lot, but it was pretty funny.) We followed up on that in our lesson on Saturday and asked Nick if he was feeling ready to come to church. He said he wanted to come! We had two members at the lesson, and they offered him a ride right then and there and just did a great job of helping him feel welcome. Then, it got even better after the lesson when the member who was giving Nick a ride asked us if it would be okay for him to invite Nick to the baptism happening after church in the YSA ward! We told him that was more than okay, and the next day Nick came to church and to the baptism! He had a great experience at both, he felt the spirit super strong, especially at the baptism, so we think we'll probably be able to help him set up a date to be baptized in our lesson this week.
That's all for now, love you guys!
Elder Clark
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