Sveiki Visiems!
Some exciting news- as a mission we have over 30 individuals with Baptismal Dates!!! There are 9 in our zone, most of Lithuania ( Kaunas, klaipeda, and Siauliai). It's incredible, hearts are being softened by our prayers and dilligence.
Today we had interviews with President dance and ate lunch with him and Sis Dance as a district, it was wonderful. I will miss them when they leave.
This week we were able to meet with a young man who w had a lesson with about a month ago. We met at the Church and invited him to be baptized. He said he had already been baptized, so we then asked about baptism and taught about that and recovered the first lesson at a much more relaxed pace. At the end he was willinga nd felt like he needed to read the Book of Mormon, at least to start and see how it went. He still wouldn't necessarily agree to be baptized but saw the connection between the Book of Mormon and everything else we taught. We set up a lesson for this Saturday and invited him to the baptism that will take place that day as well.
While bus contacting, I talked to an older man and gave him our card, barely sharing anything because we needed to exit the bus. He called us about an hour later and we met and talked just briefly. He wanted to come to Church, but thought it was just for young people, because he only saw missionaries going into the Church, we explained that all were welcome. He was unable to attend this Sunday because of work, but we have a meeting with him this week to talk about what Church will be like and explain some of our beliefs. Truly we need to talk to people everywhere.
We also helped Du Wei to exercise his priesthood. He had asked us a couple of weeks ago about blessing his restaurant, because he feels there is a bad spirit there and he can't feel the holy Ghost. We looked into the blessing of homes, since we figured that was the most similar thing that we did and discovered that it doesn't require the Melchezidek priesthood, so Du Wei could do it himself, instead of us. This Saturday we went with him to his restaurant and talked about how to do it, what to say and then asked him to pray. He did, as we all knelt on the ground. He offered the prayer in English, the first time he's ever prayed in English. It was beautiful. He said that he felt better as soon as he prayed, which is great.
As always talked with a few interesting people this week as well.
First, Petras. We met him in a park and he asked us if we knew where he could find a Pagan church to join. We said no and then started talking about Christ and our Church. We asked if he wanted to find out which church was true, he said no, and then proceeded to try and prove that God doesn't exist talking about black matter and other random things. It was funny.
Second, Vytautas the prophet. We have talked to Vytautas before, about Nuclear Kinetic Energy. This time he told us he was a prophet and got revelation from God. He told us that the President of the EU knew that Ireland's economy was going to collapse and that he was in cahoots with America, who wants to destroy the EU- one country at a time, it started with Greece, then went to spain, now Ireland, next Lithuania! Then he needed to leave to spread the word.
Third, hoolies on a bus. We were sitting on a bus and a group of teenagers, two guys and three girls get on. One reads Elder Sherman's tag and then yells asking what we are doing here. we try to answer, but she just keeps asking, so her friend then moves seats to be right in front of us and starts talking much more calmly with us asking. We explained and we actually had a fairly decent conversation.
We finished conference. It was wonderful. I hope you all had a chance to watch and think about what was taught and what we can all do better. well, I love Lithuania and all of you. I appreciate your prayers and pray for you. I hope everything goes excellent this week. Have a great Easter!
Love,
Vyresnysis Kanoris Hiltonas
Today we had interviews with President dance and ate lunch with him and Sis Dance as a district, it was wonderful. I will miss them when they leave.
This week we were able to meet with a young man who w had a lesson with about a month ago. We met at the Church and invited him to be baptized. He said he had already been baptized, so we then asked about baptism and taught about that and recovered the first lesson at a much more relaxed pace. At the end he was willinga nd felt like he needed to read the Book of Mormon, at least to start and see how it went. He still wouldn't necessarily agree to be baptized but saw the connection between the Book of Mormon and everything else we taught. We set up a lesson for this Saturday and invited him to the baptism that will take place that day as well.
While bus contacting, I talked to an older man and gave him our card, barely sharing anything because we needed to exit the bus. He called us about an hour later and we met and talked just briefly. He wanted to come to Church, but thought it was just for young people, because he only saw missionaries going into the Church, we explained that all were welcome. He was unable to attend this Sunday because of work, but we have a meeting with him this week to talk about what Church will be like and explain some of our beliefs. Truly we need to talk to people everywhere.
We also helped Du Wei to exercise his priesthood. He had asked us a couple of weeks ago about blessing his restaurant, because he feels there is a bad spirit there and he can't feel the holy Ghost. We looked into the blessing of homes, since we figured that was the most similar thing that we did and discovered that it doesn't require the Melchezidek priesthood, so Du Wei could do it himself, instead of us. This Saturday we went with him to his restaurant and talked about how to do it, what to say and then asked him to pray. He did, as we all knelt on the ground. He offered the prayer in English, the first time he's ever prayed in English. It was beautiful. He said that he felt better as soon as he prayed, which is great.
As always talked with a few interesting people this week as well.
First, Petras. We met him in a park and he asked us if we knew where he could find a Pagan church to join. We said no and then started talking about Christ and our Church. We asked if he wanted to find out which church was true, he said no, and then proceeded to try and prove that God doesn't exist talking about black matter and other random things. It was funny.
Second, Vytautas the prophet. We have talked to Vytautas before, about Nuclear Kinetic Energy. This time he told us he was a prophet and got revelation from God. He told us that the President of the EU knew that Ireland's economy was going to collapse and that he was in cahoots with America, who wants to destroy the EU- one country at a time, it started with Greece, then went to spain, now Ireland, next Lithuania! Then he needed to leave to spread the word.
Third, hoolies on a bus. We were sitting on a bus and a group of teenagers, two guys and three girls get on. One reads Elder Sherman's tag and then yells asking what we are doing here. we try to answer, but she just keeps asking, so her friend then moves seats to be right in front of us and starts talking much more calmly with us asking. We explained and we actually had a fairly decent conversation.
We finished conference. It was wonderful. I hope you all had a chance to watch and think about what was taught and what we can all do better. well, I love Lithuania and all of you. I appreciate your prayers and pray for you. I hope everything goes excellent this week. Have a great Easter!
Love,
Vyresnysis Kanoris Hiltonas
No comments:
Post a Comment