So I don’t have a ton of time today, so this is just going to be a quick update.
This week we finally found our guy Alison. A few weeks ago, he came up to us one day when we were passing by his house and he wanted us to come visit him. When we went to visit him, we taught him the restoration and the Book of Mormon. He was super interested and said he would read the book. However, we tried for about two and a half weeks to visit him but we couldn’t ever find him. On Friday, we decided we would try one more time to find him in his house. I was fed up with him for not following through with our appointments, and was ready to drop him. When we got to his house, he was actually there. He told us he had read the Book of Mormon and knew it was legit. He told us that he felt it was all true. It was awesome. He accepted a baptismal date for the 26th of May. I am so glad we tried one more time to visit him. Alison is the man. He is definitely someone who has been prepared to hear the gospel.
Remember Javier from last week? Well the story isn’t over yet. So on Thursday, we were heading from one appointment to another, when we quickly passed by Javier’s house. As we passed by, we heard a familiar voice yell, “Elders!“. We stopped for a second and walked back to his house. A few seconds later, a tired-looking Javier hobbled out from his house. As he got closer and started to talk to us, we could clearly tell he was drunk. It was super sad to see. Turns out that the week before, one of his buddies offered him just “una cervesita” or “one little beer.” Before that, he hadn’t had any kind of alcohol in over a year. I guess he figured that “one little beer” wouldn’t hurt (we hadn’t gotten around to teaching the Word of Wisdom) and one thing led to another and he got super drunk. Now he’s been drinking again. He told us that he felt so unworthy to talk to us that he wouldn’t come to the door when we’d knock, and even told his sister to tell us he was going back to Venezuela. He told us that he feels super bad, but wants to start things over again. We told him that we are here to help him, and that through Christ, all things are possible. We set an appointment to visit him on Tuesday. We will see how things go. It was really tough to find him like that and to hear what happened but now I feel he is moving in the right direction after talking to us.
Well I have to go! Sorry for the short letter. I’ll try to do better next week. Love you all. The work continues.
Avanza Su Verdad!
Elder Bailey #TakeNote
“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.”
- Thomas Jefferson
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