Dear Family,
I'll start this week with commenting on the photos. The
bloody hand and knife is because we were throwing knives in the backyard for
Thanksgiving and mine slipped accidentally. Just kidding. It's the Kool-Aid mix
that Grandma sent in the Birthday Package! Thanks grandma! The other photos are
of me and Elder Hernandez in our homemade ponchos.
This week has been pretty different. We have been doing our
best to help our investigators progress. We lost about 6 of our progressing
investigators. They like reading the Book of Mormon, but they have all said
"I like your book, but I will never go to church." Well saying that
shows that they don't have sincere desires to follow Christ. We tried teaching
each of them about 4 times after those comments pleading for them to pray to
know what Heavenly Father wants them to do. One even said, "What's the
point of asking God if I'm not going to follow the answer? Even if He said that
your church is true I wouldn't come still. I don't want to be a Mormon" Well
that just about killed us on the spot.
Other than that the week has been great. We have been
starting to find more investigators that want to come unto Christ. We are
dedicated to find those that the Lord has prepared for us.
This last month President Wilkenson made the goal for us to
baptize and confirm 200 souls for the month of November. The whole mission
worked hard with prayer and fasting and every ounce of work we could give. In
Costa Rica, this mission has never baptized 200 people in a single month. We
worked hard. This last weekend we finished this month and President Wilkenson
sent a message to all of us to give thanks to a loving Heavenly Father who answers
our prayers. We finished this month with 203 newly baptized and confirmed
members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. What a miracle!
Heavenly Father loves us. If we are willing to act in faith,
He will bless our efforts. I know this to be true.
Siga Adelante,
-Elder Neider
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