So yeah, we have been working pretty hard this past week. Elder A. is really cool, he knows a little bit of English, and we talk about books and movies a lot. Nothing too dramatic happened this week. Except that during a couple visits with this recient convert named M, she has been really down because of her family situation. A few weeks ago, we met her nephew F, who seemed like a really nice guy. He was staying at M´s house because his younger brother (who´s 19) killed a guy and now that guy´s friends and family are looking for F and his family to kill them in return. He told us that he had recently given up drugs and was really interested in changing his life. He doesn´t know how to read, but we´ve been teaching him and he´s been really good. Until a week ago, when he fell back into drugs, even stole from M to pay for them. And this isn´t the first time that this has happened, her other newphew Y did almost the exact same thing about a month before I got here. It was really hard to hear her, but then I remembered a Scripture in the Bible (Finally I´m seeing results from my painful reading of the Bible, ugh, endless verses on what to do when a cow falls in a pit), when Moses was praying to the Lord in Numbers 11, saying that this people (this Israelites) are so disobedient and hard to handle that Moses asks the Lord to kill him to end his suffering. Instead, The Lord tells Moses to gather together 70 men. This has two parts to it, first he told Moses to gather men together, meaning that we don´t have to face our problems alone, we have the Church to help us, and second, when we ask for the Lord´s help, he will return it on our heads 70 times over. It was really spiritual. Her whole countenance changed and she commited to come back to Church next week. I´d like to share my testimony with you all that God and Jesus Christ LOVE us, and whenever we need to feel this love, it is always there, because God is unchanging, he loves us today, he loved us yesterday, and he´ll love us tomorrow.
Elder Blaylock
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