So me and Elder Vele were having a really tough few days because a lot of our investigators were no longer interested and the one's that were progressing were not coming to church. So one of the days we were proselyting, no one was home and a lot of people told us they were not interested. Literally, all of our plans and back up plans fell through so we had a lot of time before our fafaga (dinner) and we had no plans or set appointments for the next couple hours. Tala'i tuitui (Door to door proselyting) was fa'asa (banned) by our mission president because 99% of the people turn us down every time and it wasn't an efficient use of our time, so we had no clue what to do. We were literally sitting on the sidewalk, sweating like crazy because it was super humid, trying to figure out what to do and who to contact. It was at this moment that I received a prompting for us to say a prayer and ask Heavenly Father what we should do and who we should contact. So we said a prayer on the sidewalk and right after we said the prayer, I felt a prompting to visit a family I haven't contacted in 6 weeks because they were always busy and didn't have time for us to visit them. Long story short, we went there and it was a coincidence (not really, it was the Lord obviously) because it was their day off. So we talked with them and it was an amazing spiritual experience. They said that they were so grateful that we came because they have been going though some tough times and that the message we shared with them was something they needed to hear (they were literally crying telling us this). They even told us to come back anytime and teach them some more. And the crazy thing was, when I visited them last time, they were kind of rude to us and seemed disinterested. And not long after that lesson, we found another family of 6 who were super interested in our message. They are a family of 8. I had taught him before and hadn't been able to contact him in a very long time. But we decided to go over. We went over and he told us right after the prayer that he has not stopped reading the lesson pamphlet we gave him last time. And he believes without a doubt that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God. He told us to come back again so we can teach his whole family so they can all convert together. We believe we can baptize in the next couple weeks. It just goes to show that God never abandons his children and that if we ALWAYS put our trust in him, he will bless us with whatever we stand in need of.
I have a testimony of this gospel and know without a doubt in my mind that God is always working with us. We just have to realize what lesson he needs us to learn, then the trials, temptations, hard times will become amazing testimony builders that will help us become the person our Heavenly Father wants us to be.
My blessings and love go out to all of you this week!
Alofa atu
Elder Bethea
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