Ok! So this is going to be a little bit short I am thinking,
because I was reading the amazing letter that I received from Mom. It was
really special, as I said on the chat I was holding back tears because I am in
a little internet café thing. But wow, what an experience. What a blessing to
know about the world of spirits…. The spirit world. What a blessing it is.
So this week, I just wanted to tell you guys, that first of
all, I got a package from Jess and Con. It was kinda funny because what
happened was that it went to the South Mission. Their offices are in the same
building in Bogotá. One is on the 9th floor and one is on the 10th
floor. They sent it to the 9th floor. Way to go haha. But I got the
package, and I am going to send you a video next week of my house and then
there was a really funny note from the secretaries of the South mission that I
will send next week. But ya… I got the Reese’s pieces which me and my companion
enjoyed thoroughly, they are gone, and also the gummy worms are also gone. And
most of all, the USB. I was able to open the package there in the offices while
I was on intercambios with the assistants, and so I got to see a little bit of
the video while the assistants were working in the offices. We were just kind
of waiting around. Then, I just got it to work! So I am fighting with it to get
it to work on these computers, but I did get to watch the first part of it
really well in the offices, I didn’t finish it but now I am having a little bit
of trouble getting it to reproduce…crap… to play on this computer. Haha.
This week has been really good, except hard. Ugh… it’s been
a little frustrating. Yesterday I got really frustrated, but I have a great
companion that helped me out. So I guess I want to tell you about Adali. Adali
has come so far in her conversion. She asked about the Book of Mormon, and just
to let you know this woman when we contacted her, we knocked her door one night
at like 8 o’clock at night, and sometimes as a missionary you ask inspired
questions. Sometimes you just go up to a door and you start talking to them and
you just wait for the Spirit to tell you what to say. and the Spirit will give
you something to say and what we said in that moment (and I don’t remember who
said it) but we said “what would you do if you found the true church?” and she
said: “I would repent and be baptized.” And we were like WHOA! That’s not real…
but so far it has been. She got on her knees this week, and well actually the
first thing that happened was that we taught her the first lesson that night,
and then we came back another day to give her a health blessing and it was the
second time that we had seen her and we were a little bit hesitant about giving
her a health blessing so early on, but we did it on a prompting and it turned out
fantastic because before I gave the blessing, I had read in Jesus the Christ
that we should ask if they have faith in Christ. Unless it is a little child,
we should as them if they have faith in Christ to be healed. And I did. And she
said yes. I told her “Ok, this blessing will work if you have faith, in
accordance with your faith.” And so I gave the blessing, and afterwards we left
and she said that that night it hurt to breathe, but then she slept tranquil
that night and then the next day she was OK. She said that she got on her knees
and thanked God. Then this week, Adali has asked about the Book of Mormon and
received an answer. She said that she asked about it, and she received a
confirmation. She started to cry and couldn’t stop. I couldn’t believe it. It
was so awesome. But from that point on, she has just been unstoppable. She has
changed her work schedule to be able to fit in going to church and everything.
So what a blessing.
That’s what has been going on with Adali this week, it has
been the spiritual experience of my week, also I have been taking the advice of
Elder Godoy and taking a Christ-like attribute that I want to work on and
working on it this week with the help of the Savior, with the help of the
Atonement, and it’s really worked! I have been working on humility and
diligence, which have been hard ones, more than anything humility and I have
seen how the Savior has helped me with that. I just have such a strong
testimony of knowing that Jesus Christ is my Savior. It’s just incredible what
he does for us. He is, in truth, our divine Savior. I know that if we lack
something, we can work with him on it. These are the experiences I’m having. I
am very grateful for these. I wouldn’t trade them for the world. I want to
thank you all for your support, I know that the Lord is blessing you all on
that continent as much as he is on this continent. I love you all so much, and I
will talk to you later. Chao Chao!
-Elder Lewis
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