This was another week and guess what is was also GREAT! We had a lot of success as we found 4 new investigators to teach. They all came from families that we are currently teaching are through part member families.
I went on my first companion exchange this week with our zone leaders in Chia (a place far far away). Elder Vincent was my compa for the day. He's from Brigham city Utah, and the FIRST American person I've been with since I got here on the mission. I was actually able to talk english for a little bit which was pretty nice. Our first visit for the day was with a member family. We gave service by helping them pack candles that the family made (the family runs a candle company).After we headed to the center of Chia. There is this huge shopping mall but everything is outside, this was a gold mine of people to start talking to. Right off the bat we were able to get someone interested and wanting to learn more about us. We met Josè Ricardo (old dude chilling in a chair). We shared the brief history of the Book of Mormon with this man and instantly he seemed interested. He ended up telling us that he was going to start reading the Book right then and there, and continue to read it every single day! We got his number and address, so Elder Vincent and his compa are going to have a great new investigator to start meeting with! We taught four lessons that day, each lesson was certain scriptures in the Book of Mormon. We taught about prayer, repentance, and the importance of baptism. When I woke up the next morning, Elder Vincent asked if I wanted pancakes! The man had pancakes!!! I was super stoked to finally eat some pancakes. We smothered those puppies in peanut butter and jelly, and finished it off with a glass of Sunny-D.
We are always getting calls from people asking us to help them with moving to another house. This week we got a call from the Escobar family (Family in the ward). They needed our help to move so we were there and ready to help. After getting them all settled into their new home they invited us to go eat dinner with them.
I had the opportunity to teach one of our investigators in english for the first time on my mission. His name is Alejandro, and he is trying to learn english. I was able to teach him about the Book of Mormon, and the promise the President Gordon B. Hinckley has made with us, that if we read the Book of Mormon in another language that we will be fluent in that language. I felt prompted to promise Alejandro that as he would take this challenge to read the Book of Mormon in English and seriously study it, that his english would improve drastically.
Teaching Manuel was the best lesson of the week for me. He's one of our new investigators who has accepted a date to be baptized on the 23rd of June. We taught him about the Book of Mormon, but went more into depth with him because he can understand things very well. We read the introduction with him, and shared with him the invitation by Moroni, to read, ponder, and pray about the things in this book, and the promise that if he did that he would feel the holy ghost testify to him in his heart that the Book of Mormon is true, and that Joseph Smith truly was a prophet of God, who translated the golden plates into this book that we have today. Manuel is excited to start reading, to receive his answer!
Mission life isn`t easy, but it sure is fun, and full of experiences of feeling the Spirit, and learning how to become your best self!
Love, Elder Horton
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| Package received from the fam |
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| Fat manikin lady we found while walking around the shops of Bogotà |
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