Fourth of July, but then an American family from our ward invited us
over for preparation Day today for an American Barbecue. But in other
words this week was good! Our investigators Monica and Franklin are
making huge progress and I got to preach the gospel a group of
Ghanians outside an African Store and try some INCREDIBLY spicy
Nigerian "Pepper Soup".
Monica and Franklin are progressing really really well! Not only have
we seen a huge change in them but they just look sooo happy now!
Monica told us that when she hears the lessons and reads the Book of
Mormon she feels so happy and that she can feel the spirit testifying
to her of it. Also Franklin is coming around, before he wasn't super
excited about meeting with us, but now both of them have accepted a
baptismal invitation for the 16th of July, and they are SUPER pumped
to be able to be baptized on this day!
So this week during an companion exchange with the Zone Leaders, Elder
Kimball(He just finished being an Assistant to the President)and I
passed by a store named, "Zion Afro Store" and we saw some African men
sitting down on a bench outside and so we contact them all and set up
another visit. We came back during a member split I did and the member
didn't speak English so I was teaching this group(6-8 guys) of men
from Ghana. I taught them the first lesson and when I started talking
about Joseph Smith, one of the men who kept on cutting me off named
"Adi", says "The United States was founded by aliens!!! All you
Americans just do everything for money, you can see there's that weird
pyramid thingy on the US Dollar." And I just say, "What does that have
to do with anything I just said?!" All the African men started
laughing and told him to chill, I finished teaching the lesson and
invited them to read the Book of Mormon and to pray and if they
received an answer to be baptized and only one of them said yes. His
name was Ishmael and he was contently listening the whole lesson and I
could really see that while the other men were not very focused, he
had his eyes fixed on me the whole lesson. Although the other men
didn't feel the spirit I know he did! We're going to meet with Ismael
next week so we'll see what happens!
An investigator from Nigeria named Patrick gave us some soup and rice
after a lesson. And I swear it was the spiciest thing I've ever had!!!
I started coughing and sweating and it was super intense!!
Other than that the week was pretty normal with finding lots of people
and talking to nice people in the street! The Gospel truly blesses
people and changes lives! Have a great 4th, and have fun eating some
hot dogs and watching some fireworks!!! Drink some extra Root Beer for
me because we don't have Root Beer in Spain!
-Elder Miller
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