Just another great week here in good ol' Mozambique. Just the craziest of weeks.... haha so because we don't have energy or water in our house currently we were sent to Beira to stay with another companionship until we can get energy in Dondo again, but wow the work is coming along so well.
RIght now we have 7 baptisms planned for the 21st and they are all looking super solid. I really think we will meet our goal and maybe even more. WE are still teaching Cremildo and wow..... such an amazing dude. During our last lesson we were asking him if he had received an answer to his prayer yet and he paused for a second and said "I prayed and did what you asked and I wasn't sure if I believed, so I read the whole pamphlet you gave me and did the bible study in the back, and now I know its true, I felt that it is true. SO now I think i need to be baptised." ..... hahaha wow God really does prepare the way as long as we are willing to put in the work, and in some cases we don't even have to do much work at all!
haha but we are also teaching a Matias and Volvo and they are both really good friends that we were teaching separately and we were having a really hard time with them but we decided to teach them together one time and we taught the Word of Wisdom, Wow it was like they were completely different people. All of a sudden they were really excited about the message, they were asking questions and they were even helping each other understand the principles of the gospel. This really got me thinking about life and how sometimes we think that the solution is to just work harder and things will work out, eventually the spirit will be able to penetrate into their hearts but in reality the problem is our approach.
I think my challenge to all those out there reading this weeks episode is to find what doesnt seem to be working the way it should in our lives and to take that thing and study the scriptures and pray specifically about it and try to find a way to approach our problems in a different way. Because we all know 1 nephi 3:7, God will provide a way but maybe the pathway he prepared isn't right in front of us but is behind us and all we need to do is stop and look around.
Hahaha so for the story of the week.... here in AFrica people really like their rice, fish and chicken and for some reason this precise combination has been causing a strange phenomenon in my stomach known as serious indigestion.... HAhahaha anyways we were walking to a lesson and I was telling Elder Flitton... Man I really really need to go right now, and he was like okay man but we need to teach this lesson first. So we walked insanely fast to our next lesson and found Cremildo with his good friend Sony who was super cool and way excited to hear about the gospel about to leave the house to go and brincar. Anyways I would also like to testify that God will hasten his work... sometimes by giving his faithful servants a little bit of motivation to walk a little bit faster and arrive at our lessons just a tad bit faster.
Hahaha oh yeah the missions great. Thanks for the support and the prayers that have gotten me through my severe indigestion...;) haha love you all
-Elder Thornton
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