Alright lets get started, you are probably wondering about the subject line, yes Elder CG saw a vision, no I'm not kidding, yes I will tell you the story
. So we do daily planning at night and on Friday night Elder CG felt very strongly that we needed to visit two less actives, I said sure and as we were planning we realized we could be more effective if we moved an appointment with Torenza, one of the less actives back a couple hours. But I felt a strong impression, more like a voice in my head that was just super strong that said "Didn't you two already decide to visit him at 2? Was that inspired or not?" and besides we had already written in down in pen so...no going back now! I told Elder CG what I thought and he was on board, fast forward to Saturday we are driving to Lynnwood to go visit Torenza and as we are pulling into the apartment parking lot Elder Camillo Gois falls asleep (As he normally does, car rides are really boring for deaf people) before we went over a speed bump and it woke him up. As we pulled into a parking stall he told me that he saw a woman in Torenzas apartment in a yellow shirt with black hair that we were really excited to meet and we taught her about the gospel and then as he woke up he felt something push his elbow. He thought it was kind of weird and I told him maybe there will be a woman in there. So we went up to the door and Torenza answered and invited us in. We thought that it was just Torenza because there was nobody else that we could see but as the door closed we noticed a woman standing behind the door (kind of a weird place to stand don't you think?) I talked with Torenza and Elder Camillo Gois talked with her a little bit, her name is Natalie, we taught a lesson and invited her to learn more she said yes! She also accepted an invitation to read the Book of Mormon! We are going back next week to teach Natalie and Torenza! As we leave I asked Elder Camillo Gois if that was her that he saw in the vision, he said yeah, he wasn't entirely sure because the vision was blurry and only like 2 or 3 seconds but he said yeah that was her. She was wearing a yellow shirt and had black hair, and on her elbow was a bandage, right where he had felt the push in the vision.
I mean come on! Is that crazy or what!?!? That has actually been happening a lot recently, Elder Camillo Gois will turn to me and say I remember driving this way in a dream a couple of weeks ago or this seems familiar, super cool huh?
But I am actually super grateful for that vision and that Elder Camillo Gois told me about it because without it we would not have been half as bold as we were, we just were bold and upfront with her and she accepted everything! It was crazy!
Sorry that was so long but I had to explain everything!
Also we had a lesson with Andrey our investigator who lives 2 hours away yesterday and we taught faith and did how to begin teaching with him and he basically started telling us his life story! It was just devastating! his life has been awful, basically he has been alone for 17 years because his family only knows basic sign language and he lives in the middle of nowhere working 3 jobs without anything to make him happy, holy cow! We understand so much more about where he is coming from now! If I told you or not, Andrey can't understand English and his sign language is very basic, Elder Camillo Gois and I have to be very clear and gestural with him. Is gestural a word? I don't know but it works!
Loving the work! The Lord blesses us as we act in faith! Jesus Christ is our Savior and He LOVES YOU!
-Elder Schoemig
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