Mi Semana

¿Qué hubo amigos?

 

Man it has been getting warm and all the snow is melting away! I am hoping that Spring is here and that the snow will be going away. But everyone tells me to not get my hopes up.

 

We started off the week by going on exchanges. I was with Elder Weber. He is a new missionary from Boise and is really funny. We were able to meet a lot of cool people. We met with Crystal who is one of their investigators that moved into the ward from another. But she is Native American and one thing she found was that she could still keep her culture and join the church because they are very similiar. It was amazing talking to her about how she had felt the Spirit before, but she just did not know how to recognize it. She told us that the Book of Mormon really stood out to her because it was about her ancestors on the American continent. She is super solid and is due to get baptized next week along with her 10 year old daughter. We also met with a guy named Estar from Central Africa and he speaks French. It was really hard for him to understand us but wants to keep meeting with the Clairview elders. They are just going to have to bring someone that speaks French. The sisters gave us a referral that afternoon and we had time so we went and contacted him. His name is Steve and he is really interested the importance of family within the gospel. We could only talk to him for about 10 minutes, but the Spirit was very strong. It was cool because we both told each other that we recognized each other, but I have never met him. It is crazy the people that are put in your path as a missionary.

 

We were able to meet with Anselmo this week and talk to him about the Book of Mormon. He still thinks that nothing can replace the Bible, but we explained to him that the LDM and Bible are to be read together and they compliment each other. He is going to met with us again this week and he is going to have his son there who is a avid member of another congregation. Hopefully it goes allright. We also met with Ruben and Cindy and he is starting a new program that should help him greatly with his lungs. So hopefully he can get feeling better and go to church. We watched "Como Hallar Fe in Jesucristo" (Finding Faith in Christ) and they responded very well to it. The Spirit was strong and I hope it touched their hearts. I urge anyone that has not seen this, to see it. We also are meeting with a former investigator named Alexandra who is dating a less active member. We are going on splits when we see them with the zone leaders, so Elder EZ goes and I go with the other zone leader. We need to work something out because Elder EZ does not feel like she is understanding very much when they talk in English. We had our English class this week and its funny to find out that there are a quite a few words in Hungarian that are bad words in English. Its really hard not to laugh.

 

Spiritual Thought: Read Gal. 5:13 and ponder on why we serve others. This really hit me this week and I thought a lot about, "What is our true motive in helping others?" I also heard a talk yesterday in church and one thing really stood out to me. The woman said "Do you resent the things that will help you grow to your divine nature?" I find myself doing this. It's hard not to, but if we can realize in the moment that the Lord is wanting us to learn something, we will be happier in our trials. Always stay strong and keep the faith!

 

Mucho amor!!

 

Elder Kipp