Hello
Everyone,
What
a weird but awesome week we have had here.
- Got pretty sick this
week. Still fighting it.
- Working out every
night hard. Yoga in the mornings.
- We did a look-up of
a person who had supposedly been looking into the church before. He oddly let
us in and talked about how his brother lets us sleep at his house. We were
super confused, and he then told us that his brother was very high in our
church. We did not recognize his name, so he said he was going to have him come
over. Wasn't home, so he called him. We told him our names and that we were new
in the area and that we were trying meet the members. We told him we were from
New Paltz, and he said that it was impossible because the New Paltz
missionaries don't cover the area where he lived (we were in a different town).
We told him we did, and he asked us what our "area cards were"? Well,
come to find out, he is a Jehovah's Witness, and we got so deep into it not
knowing that they were such that we had no way of backing out of it. So, we
pretended like we were JWs. Quite a funny experience. We left a Book of Mormon
on his porch so he probably knows now who we are. :)
- Right after the
experience above, I was driving 50 in a 30 MPH zone (I thought the speed limit
was 45) and got pulled over by a cop. He asked where we were coming from, and we
told him we were missionaries from our church just coming home from an appointment.
He asked me if I have ever gotten a ticket in New York, California or
anywhere in-between. Said no. He looked at my name tag, thought for a second,
and then gave me back my license and told us to be careful going home and to
keep up the good work. God is good. That would have been a $300 plus ticket :)
- Last week we went
over to a member’s house to have dinner with them. Within the house is an older
man who is not a member of the Church. Well, 25 years earlier on that day, his
wife had passed away. He was lonely, and you could tell he missed her. The head
of the household asked us if we could go and pray with him. We did, and then we
started to learn more about his family. We talked and ended up teaching him
that he CAN be with his wife again, and we shared how he can. We taught him the
plan of salvation mixed with the gospel of Jesus Christ. We invited him to be
baptized on the very first contact and he said yes! By the time we finished the lesson, we had to
go to our next appointment and never even got to teach the family. But God knew
why we needed to go over there, and it was for this man. Well, this week we
went over there, taught him the restoration of the gospel, and he is now on
date to be baptized the 2nd of April.
God is a god of
miracles, but he gives us this life as our playing ground. This life is a training. God never leaves us, we leave Him, and as we
try to get closer to Him, He will guide us through this life perfectly. Don’t think it can happen? Try it.
I dare you.
I dare you with love,
- Elder Celaya
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