Missionary Moments: November 2010

Elder Jason Robertson is presently serving the Spain, Madrid Mission.

After church, this week, we took a long walk out to Santa Marta, a small town on the outskirts of Salamanca, about a 40 minute walk. We taught a less active family from Honduras, and on our way back Elder Hanson just wanted to cross this bridge we found and take a different route. It led us through a forest and I took pictures. We walked for a long time and there was no one around, we thought there was a bridge at the end of the forest but when we got there we found out there wasn't, so we were trapped in by the river which meant we had to go back all the way around and we would be late for a 1st lesson with a couple from Nicaragua that we had talked to on the street.

Well, all the way at the edge of the forest we found a man from Bolivia fishing with his grandson. He said he's never been fishing before, and he had no luck so they were going home. It turns out he's painted some of our Mormon chapels in his country and he's really interested in meeting up with us. He lives in a mall town about 60 km away from Salamanca, and we're going to see him this Saturday. He was so happy to have found us, he wanted to take pictures with us, so we did. The lesson of the story is found in 1 Nephi 4:6 "and (we) were led by the spirit, not knowing beforehand....