Like always, I´m a little short on time. But that´s just the story of the life of a missionary. Haha I sound like a drama queen.
I wanted to tell a brief story though. So we are teaching a guy named Jorge Chavez, and his wife Liliana really doesn´t want to listen to us. Jorge Chavez is a rather odd individual, but he really loves the church and the gospel, and we are working with him a lot to get him to the point where he can get baptized. The only thing that really blocks his progress is the fact that he isn´t married, but his wife is Christian and she knows that it´s moral to get married and everything, so they´ll be doing that really soon, which is awesome! So basically, JC is for sure getting baptized, it´s just a matter of when. Anyway, so we visit him a lot and talk to him a lot (or, we visit him, and he talks to us....he´s a talker), but we are slowly, SLOWLY, gaining the confidence of Liliana. "poco a poco". So we are lucky if Liliana talks to us. Yesterday, JC called us and told us he wanted us to come to his house because he had something urgent to tell us, and our thought was Um...yeah we´ll try to squeeze you in into our schedule of 8 appointments in 6 hours. We were super busy that day because Sundays are crazy, and honestly kind of irritated that he wouldn´t just tell us on the phone, but we said we would make time to go see him. So miraculously (or just maybe because God is in charge of all this stuff) one of our appointments changed, so we had plenty of time to go visit them. We get to the house, and Liliana is there, JC had just left but was coming back. So we sat with L for a little while, and chated about life, but she didn´t seem to want to talk about the "urgent thing" so we didn´t really say anything. but when JC came back, he had all the details and was really concerned. Basically, he told us all about what had happened, and it was about Liliana. She goes to a Christian church, and always had talked about how much she loved it. But apparently yesterday morning, after church, her pastor and his wife met with her in his office, and they were talking about how L and JC aren´t married, and how it´s a sin. They also called her out on the fact that she comes to church alone, and that her husband goes to another church (that´s us...oopsies). Basically what they told her is that she is no longer "allowed" to come to church, and that she needs to find a new congregation. After JC stopped telling the story, L tried to say something, and just started bawling. It broke my heart. And it´s not like we were about to pounce and be like "Oh hey good news you can come to our church now! You´re church was wrong all along!!!" That was not at all what the purpose of this was. Hna Hamilton and I just looked at each other, and we didn´t really know what to say. Obivously we believe that our church is the true one, that´s why we´re here. But that´s not what she needed to hear in that moment. We shared a story about Jesus Christ, and talked about His life and what He did for us. I don´t know how to explain it, but the Spirit was so strong in that room. In the scriptures, Jesus Christ asks us to have a broken heart and a contrite spirit. I can tell you for sure that Liliana´s heart was broken in that moment, and I think that hearing about Jesus Christ is just what she needed. It was really cool for me, because I felt like I wasn´t even teaching. It was the scriptures that we read about Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world, and the feeling that we all had.
I want to say more, but there is not time. I just want to say that if I´m learning anything out here, it´s that I really don´t do much. I just wear a black tag, walk around and sweat a lot, and hope and pray that people can feel God´s love through our words in broken Spanish.
I love you all so much! Have a great week!
Hermana Scott
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