Promised Blessings 7/25/2011

Ok so this week was a killer! I´m going to start at the begining, we are teaching a 78 year old man who doesn´t know how to read. at first he just listened to us cause he was catholic and thats what catholics do, the (pretend) to listen. unfortunately he went for his kids weddings and thats it, so he didn´t get the memo and actually listened :) that was about a month ago. he´s been to church 3 sundays in a row and wants to be baptised, he´s even learning to read where before he had no desire to do so! its a very great transformation. his name is ruben, i´m hoping he will be baptised before i get transfered, transfers are coming up next sunday, and i will probably be leaving this area as i have been here for 5 months going on 6... so this week we contacted a lady in the street, we shared our message with her, but as soon as my companion mentioned the book of mormon she began to deny it was true, we bore our testimonies, and she denied our testimonies, she told us we needed to get our testimonies from God, not man, we bore our testimonies about how we knew it was true, through the holy ghost, she denied our testimonies again, we were naturally a little upset, but we just kept turning the other cheek, finally after she denied our testimonies the third time i raised my voice, (not a lot) and i testified about everything, my companion read a scripture to her with nothing else to say, it was a powerful expirience to feel the spirit prosephy powerfully through me, and even further strengthened my testimony.  Also there was a less active member who wasn´t attending because he is always tired from work, i promised him in the man of Christ that he would not be tired anymore if he made the sacrafice, my companion then repromised the blessing, i could feel the spirit so strongly that my skin was prickling and everyone in the room had tears in there eyes, i know this is the true gospel. Don´t ever forget it!
With Love,
-Elder Paden W Allen