This week was amazing! I want to start with Tuesday! We went proselyting with Luisa Angarita, Yurley Angarita, and Jose Sourdis. We had an appointment that we wanted to go with them to, but the investigator ended up not being home. We decided to go proselyting with them! The very first family we saw outside we starting to talk with them and they were interested in hearing our message. After explaining the background of our church we invited these 3 recent converts of only one month!! to share their testimonies to these people. I have never seen this in my life so this was very new to me, to see recent converts willing to come with us and share their testimonies to people they don't even know. The Spirit was so strong as each of them testified that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is the true church on the earth today. They shared their testimonies of the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon, that it truly is the word of God. They even invited the people we were teaching to pray for themselves to find out! Because thats exactly what they did! They testified that they would receive an answer of the truthfulness of their words by the Holy Ghost. I was blown away and wanted to say amen and set some baptismal dates. The importance of sharing your testimony with people is so crucial when teaching because that is the key, the key is to get the person you're teaching to feel the spirit to testify of the truth of your words. If you don't have a testimony I want to invite you to look for one, right now! Start of with something simple, like the Book of Mormon. Make goals to read every single day. Mark scriptures that have significance in your life right now and how you can bless the lives of others. Fast, and pray pray pray everyday. Ask Heavenly Father a simple question such as Is the Book of Mormon true? If you show Heavenly Father that you care and truly want to find an answer he WILL give you one. But you have to make the effort!
We had 4 baptisms this week which was very exciting! Diana, Katherine (Linett), Camilo, and Luis. I had the opportunity to baptize Diana Poula Gonzalez Angarita. She is 8 years old and has the sweetest testimony. I have pics but cant send them this week!
(This next part came just to Dad...but I felt it was so special to share with all of you too.)
Things are moving out here and going faster every week! I made it through the first 6 weeks pretty cool huh! It was sad to see some of the missionaries go actually. My love grows for my companion and the elders and sisters we serve with everyday as we work together in service projects finding investigators and having much success! Something that bummed me out this week was I sprained my ankle again on Friday... I was just walking and my foot went forward and in the wrong direction and I heard a loud CRCKKK! When I looked down at my foot it was super fat! But something that was a miracle and a blessing for me was we were right next to a members house! I was able to hop over there and rest. Its brother Usmi`s house.(He's the big black guy in the photos I sent) He's so cool! The next miracle that happened was brother Troncoso who lives right above brother Usmis house was home from work that day! and He knows how to deal with injuries like this, so immediately when he heard about my foot he ran down and started doing some therapies on it which was super nice! Another miracle that happened was since we weren't able to go eat lunch since i was stuck in the house, our cook heard about my foot and decided to pack some lunch for me and my comp and he sent it over with E`Souza y E`Gutierrez. The last miracle was doctor Duque. He is the doctor that Ive been seeing for my foot and he came down and cracked my foot back into place. That REALLY HURT but don't worry I can walk and all is well :) I testify that the Lord looks after his missionaries, D&C 84:88 talks about how his angels will be there to bear you up. Well I had these brethren in the church, and my companion. They were the angels and I want you to know that I'm ok! and that I know that no matter how many trials we go through we can get through every single one of them with the Lords help!
Love you all!!
Elder Horton
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