We had 4 family nights this past week, which are always really good teaching opportunities to children and investigators. We also visited with T___ a few times, who is a member of the church who has attended a few times since I got here, but before that hadn't come in about 15 years. When I got here, he couldn't walk without crutches, but we gave him a blessing and one day a few weeks later we showed up and he was healed! Which was crazy! Milagros haha. This is someone who had so much faith that a priesthood blessing could heal him, and it did. He really wanted to read the Book of Mormon, but didn"t have reading glasses nor money to buy reading glasses, so we found a little magnified glass in our piso and gave him that and a Book of Mormon with our testimonies in it. He hasn't ever listened to President Nelson, but he basically quoted him twice. When we gave him the Book of Mormon, he said "You could have given me all the gold in the world, but nothing is more valuable than this book!" So that was pretty cool. He's been reading a lot since then, and definitely growing a lot spiritually. We were talking to him about how to receive the guidance of the spirit better in his life, and he just randomly said "I can't wait for the spirit to start speaking to me!" He"s a prophet its crazy haha.
I came across one of my favorite scriptures this week while reading the Book of Mormon. While Jacob is finishing his writing, he says "O be wise, what can I say more" (Jacob 6:12). Many of the world's problems would be solved if people were wise with their thoughts, words, and deeds.
Elder Coleman
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