wicky wild - Cosquin

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wicky wicky wild wild week

Transfers were this week, and I got transferred out of Cosquín II... to Cosquín I. Haha I'll be living in the same house with almost the exact people, but I've changed companions! I'll still be living with my old comp Elder Nascimento, but my new comp is Elder Chagas, who is also from Brazil! Elder Brown was sadly transferred out of Cosquín, but we're very excited to now be living with Elder Oliveira as well (also from Brazil! I better start learning Portuguese!)

I have a lot I would love to share this week, but I really want to focus on one story that touched me a lot. We've been teaching a lady, she's a single mother of 4 children. We had explained much about the gospel, and she was very interested in the Book of Mormon and the Holy Ghost. We got into a great conversation where she started opening up about her past and some difficulties in her life, and she started telling us a great experience of when she learned to pray and believe in God, and how those prayers (and the Holy Ghost) helped her through some really really rough stuff. We began to realize how spiritually in tune she is, and that's why she so easily recognized the Book of Mormon as the truth. 

As we were talking, getting to a really great point in the conversation, her dad shows up at the house and it quickly becomes apparent that he isn't the biggest fan of the Church or us (especially me, I don't think he likes the USA that much.) We felt the Spirit start to leave as he started to start a bit of contention, but there came a point where I felt the Spirit very strong within me. He asked me to my face, "do you really believe any of what's in that book?" pointing at the Book of Mormon. I didn't want to get into an argument, but I answered directly, "Más vale que sí." ("of course I do.") He didn't say anything for a second, but then began trying to bash the Book of Mormon again. Before I could tell my companion that it would probably be best to just leave and come back another time, the lady pipes in and says to her father, "Dad, you don't understand. You don't know what this book teaches. It talks about God, it talks about Christ, and it teaches the same things as the Bible. It teaches the truth." 

I felt the Spirit so strong hearing the testimony of someone who has known about the Church for only about a month, testifying of the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon. That testimony turned what would've been a rather bitter end to a great lesson into one that I will remember forever. 

That's all for this week, I have lots more great stories to share from the past few weeks, but I'll tell them later! Love you!

Elder Jenkins