Sunday, November 11, 2012

Primary and CES

Today was another great day! Can hardly believe church today all the wonderful experiences.A week or two ago the Carrisa Elders had a 29 year old young man walk up to them on the street and said " my family wants to come back to church".He had seen the missionaries several times before but said he finally got enough courage to talk to them.They had been baptized about 20 years ago in another city but had gone inactive and had moved to Carrisa about a year ago.No one here knew they existed.Anyway they came to today and loved it! It was the primary sacrament presentation and it was really good.Gerald { the 29 year old,not married},his mother, his sister and her little boy all came.The father wants to come too but has to work Sundays but is hopeful his day off will change to Sunday in January.So after church we invited Gerald to go to Naic because Lily was asked to speak in a primary leadership meeting and there was also a CES broadcast. He came with us as well as 2 Primary leaders, waited 2 hrs for the broadcast to start and really enjoyed the whole thing.On the way over I asked him how he liked church.He said "it's like going home".He then told me about a dream he had once where he saw the exact Carrisa chapel even to the detail of the cracks in the dry ground of the bare rice fields surrounding it.In his dream he thought the building was sitting on water and couldn't understand the cracks but when he saw the chapel he understood especially when they flooded the fields a few days later in preparation for planting.In the dream he was struggling along a path trying to reach the building.He then said "I finally made it".What a story!

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