Well, this week went by pretty fast. We had a single mom and her three daughters with baptismal dates for the 22 of May, but they didn´t go to church yesterday. So, that won´t be happening, but maybe at a later date. However, this 19 yr old kid we just met a couple of days ago (he is the cousin of another investigator that wasn´t very interested in changing religion) did go to church and enjoyed it a lot. He´s a really cool guy who loves reading, but he has some doubts mainly about whether God really exists. He has read and studied a lot of books and tends to trust more in scientific theories and evidence than in God, but he loves talking with us about his doubts and wants to learn more. We talked to him about prayer and he said that he had asked God through prayer many times already if he reallys exists but that he still hasn´t received a "satisfactory" answer yet. We´ll see where this goes. Many times, not always, but many times, I can tell the quality of a good, or better said, sincere investigator just by listening to the first prayer we have him offer. If that´s the case this guy is golden. Without having to encourage him like we do with most investigators he offered a very heartfelt and sincere prayer at the end of our first lesson. I love hearing them pray publicly for their first time. I think as members we pray so often that sometimes we lose that essence of really talking personally and openly to our heavenly father. Isn´t prayer the most amazing and at times the most difficult thing.
I think I´m messing up on the training thing. Before I feel like I let him participate more, but recently, with the totally unplanned lessons we´ve had it´s been harder to know how to involve him. I don´t want to puthim on the spot or embarrass him too much and just randomly turn to him and wait for him to say something. I try to help by asking him specific questions, but it´s still a little hard.
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