Mission Week 24, Bogota City Week 7, "Step Out of Your Comfort Zone."

Remember how I said we we're gonna work like Mulas last week? Well, that's exactly what we did! This week we had to go searching really hard for people to teach. Knocking on doors, finding people in parks, in stores, and the sidewalk, TOO! We set a goal to have 6 new investigators this week, and guess what? WE DID IT. This area is pretty dang hard to get people to listen to you for even 5 mins. You gotta be fast and straight to the point or the people here will just keep walking.

The lord blessed us each day as we went out to go look for people. We may have faced a lot of rejection, but something great happened during each of the days. We were able to find at least one person who gave us time to teach them something. You know you have a new investigator if they allow you to teach them something, they let you start and end with a prayer, and then give you there contact info. to come back and teach them another day. That's exactly the definition of a new investigator. Knocking on doors in this area is down right hard man. You can't get the people ever to come out and talk to you because they have this little machine by there doors that you talk through. I'm trying to figure out a way to get them to come out and talk to us.

Preach my Gospel teaches us in Chapter 9 to just talk to the everyone! So thats what we did. One family who we found who I think were pretty special, and there is no doubt in my mind that they were prepared by the Lord, was Angela, Hector, and Blanca. I found this family out of my agenda. We were calling people setting up appointments for the day, and I found the name Angela Daza in my agenda. I told my comp, vamos a llamar este numero (we're gonna call this number). Angela answered the phone and we were able to set up something with here that day to go visit her. Walking to the house I realized, as we got closer to her house, that this neighborhood had been a place that Elder Arteaga and me had gone contacting about 3 weeks ago. We hadn't had much success, and literally everyone was rejecting us. A señora, Angela had been the only one there that opened her door to let us write down here direction and number to call her to return at another time. She had told us that she was pretty busy for the moment, but that she'd love to listen to our message another time. Arriving to her door she welcomed us in as if we were family! Before teaching the lesson, her husband came out to listen to our message, and Angela had invited a friend over to come listen to us
as-well! We taught the Restoration and they want to continue to hear more! We got 3 new investigators out of the only number we wrote down that day.

I've learned that you can't give up, no matter where you are, no matter if you're getting rejected at every door. You just have to keep working diligently, because I know there is always SOMEONE looking for the Gospel of Jesus Christ in their lives.

For the members of the church I would say don't miss the chance to bring the light of Christ into the eyes of your friends, neighbors, and everyone! Invite them to activity's in the church, sacrament meeting, or invite them over to a family night! There's always something that you can do. But you gotta take that step out of your comfort zone to do it. Who knows, those people that you invite to come unto Christ are probably searching for answers, hope, or happiness! The Lord will bless you for your efforts to INVITE OTHERS TO COME UNTO CHRIST.

Love you all!

Elder Horton 

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