Berenger

This week was a different week and because of the weather our chance to see Elder Richards was shortly postponed. Luckily we have the chance to go this Thursday, all is well that ends well right? The major highlight this week was, once again, our investigator Berenger. He is the investigator i feel that i have the most ties with because he is someone that i contacted and have been teaching him from day one. he is from the ivory coast and his family still lives there. he's had a difficult life and is just one of the nicest guys ever. he is also super tall.

So this week with berenger we decided we needed to focuse on the prophets and just keep up with how we was doing concerning baptism. we have set 2 dates with him but because of work and his problems with the word of wisdom he hasn't been able to be baptized. the lesson on prophets was one of the smoothest lessons i've had on my mission. everything just meshed together and we know that when everything meshes together the spirit always guides it. in the end we were talking about the baptism and berenger pointed at me and said that he remembers when i told him in the first lesson that god would show him that the book of mormon was true. i also told him that it would take time and it would come by little things not by a vision or a something grandiose like that. he remembered that, i don't want to sound like a bad missionary but i don't remember that, it happened over a month ago and like i just don't remember testifying but he remembers it clearly. when people feel their first taste of spiritual experiences they remember it clearly. i think i still remember the very first time i really felt the spirit. it took me all the way till 9th grade and we were having a very nice parting testimony meeting in seminary. i just remember seeing all these kids i knew testify of the truthfulness of the gospel and there was no way to stifle the spirit. of course i stifled it a lot since then but now i feel i am fully invested in maximizing my spiritual capacite. i challenge everyone reading to see if they can remember the first time they really felt the spirit. it's cool to sift through the ideas that spin in your head and really try and pinpoint the first time you recognized that the spirit was testifying of truthfulness. so do it!

Back to Berenger, he told us that he would be baptized by april 21 at the latest. i hope more than anything that i am here to see his baptism. never have i see a man with purer intentions. man i love berenger