Gaining Traction

Santander B... more like Santander BEASTS!


Things are picking up out here! 


Opening the new companionship here in Santander has been a steep climb but we're starting to see some success:


-a member named Lily has a lot of free time lately and has agreed to help us out in our video call lessons. She's a fast-talking faith-building Colombian woman who makes friends with everyone we meet with! It's annoying when people won't meet in person but we get to sic Lily on them and extend powerful invitations. At least three people are starting to warm up to us and progress this way, and it's only a matter of time before we can get in-person lessons and church attendance.


-we got our first church visitor! We were making calls to all our potentials Saturday night, trying to set lessons for Tuesday more than anything, when Miguel picked up the phone. He was in a hurry but went out of his way to ask when church started. He pulled up to sacrament meeting out of nowhere and we got to hang out with one of our own visitors instead of just watching one of the other elders'. We're planning to start teaching him this week!


- we went over to Jacobo and Almendra's house this week. I can't remember if I mentioned them in past weeks but we hit up their address our first Monday while trying to get to know the key ward members and find less-actives. They don't really fit into either category, but we decided together to have visits once a week because they want to do Come Follow Me together and go over the missionary lessons with their 8-year-old daughter Ashley. On Tuesday we pulled up and they'd invited another family over for our Restoration lesson. Damasou, Juliana, and their daughter Zoe are new friends of theirs, and a lot of fun to talk to. Damasou had learned some stuff from Jacobo (once a missionary, always a missionary. Keep that PMG in your veeeeeins) but had some questions, specifically about the Word of Wisdom. (Nobody ever likes the coffee thing, and lately people cling to their "one beer/wine" like a teddy bear)


After our members talked a bit about dependancy and addiction and stuff, I just looked him in the eye and asked him- "Will you believe me if I tell you we'll get to that?". We then taught the entire Restoration and invited them to read the Book of Mormon, and ask God if we we're telling the truth. WoW didn't come up again, but when it does, the only explanation we'll need is that God has asked us through a living prophet to follow it. If anyone wants to understand a commandment, standard, or practice of the Church, they have to understand living prophets and modern revelation.


Too often we put the cart before the horse, but everything hinges on that Restoration, the Prophet Joseph Smith, and the Book of Mormon. That is how we know how to follow Christ in a world where there's so much disagreement about Him. And He can help us and anyone we invite to know the truth


Out of time


Elder Curtis 



















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