Hola Mamá y Papá! Things here are going good! This past week
was really good! Tuesday during our district meeting we talked about the
importance of having a relationship and trust with the members of each ward we
are in and will be in. We are going to work on this by calling 2 members each
day to see how they are doing and ask if there is anything we can do. Also,
whoever we eat lunch with we are going to insist that we clean up and offer to help
in any other way possible. I think it will be super fun! Later, we had a lesson with
Nicolasa where we taught her about Eternal Marriage and the importance it is if
she wants to be baptized that she gets married with her partner. She does want
to get baptized so she was going to talk with him and let us know later what
they are going to do.
Also we got a new rule this last week that we have to have 4
contacts before we go to lunch. We have to try our absolute hardest and do all
we can to get that. If we don’t have 4 before lunch and we want to eat, we have
to call our DL to get permission to eat. Due to a bunch of circumstances, we
ended up getting lunch from a member who brought it to our casa so we ate
before we had 4 contacts. Needless to say, our DL was super mad at us. We ended
up having 8 contacts at the end of the day though, so I was super happy about
that.
Thursday we called a bunch of former investigators and
contacts from some months back and were able to get 4 contacts before lunch, so we
got permission to go to the new Little Caesars that opened last week; and oh how
I’ve missed Little Caesars! Especially the crazy bread! Later we had an
appointment with an older couple who spent a good amount of time telling us
about experiences they’ve had with spirits and shadows in their house and asked
if we could help. It’s nothing serious as they don’t feel in danger, but they
would like them gone. So we need to prepare and figure out how to help them.
Then we were able to go find 5 more contacts so we ended the day with 9 in
total!
Friday we met with a young man who is a member but the only
member of his family. We want to get his help so we can try to start teaching
his mom, and ask her permission to start teaching his 9 year old sister. So we
are coming up with plans to start teaching them. Later we had a lesson with
Jorge, who we found last week. He had taken lessons from missionaries in the
past but they stopped passing by. Anyway, we talked with him about the
Restoration and he remembered quite a bit of it from the lessons he had
previously, so it made it easy to teach it! We gave him a pamphlet about the
Word of Wisdom so we can talk about that in our next appointment with him and
invited him to church on Sunday. At the end of the day we found 16 contacts!
Our ZLs were blown away. It’s thanks to Heavenly Father we were able to find
all of them!
Saturday was a crazy day filled with appointments. We had
four scheduled in the late morning and early afternoon before lunch, then after
lunch we had 6 more scheduled. Out of all of those we were able to have only 3,
but one we had was with a woman named Lupita who was very interested to know if
we can see our family again after we die. We explained the Plan of Salvation
and she understood and accepted everything we taught her. We didn’t feel it was
the right time to invite her to be baptized yet but we have another visit planned
this coming week so we are planning to invite her then! In the afternoon we had
a lesson with Edith and had a short visit with Nicolasa. She has talked with
her partner about marriage, which they both want to do, so they just need to
pick a day and start getting the paperwork ready. It was a good day!
Yesterday we had 3 investigators that came to church.
Nicolasa was able to go to a different ward with her daughter and they got
there on time so they count! We also contacted a lot yesterday and went by to
see how some people were doing and it was really good. In the night it got
super cold here! But yeah things are good! :)
Wow I did not know that CJ and Jess were moving but that’s
super awesome! I like that quote that you guys sent me; and in fact, I have the
talk from Elder Holland on a flash drive and it is a super great talk! You
should listen to it all! It’s super incredible! Thank you so much for your
email and love and support! I love you guys so much! Have a great week!
PS we went to Villa del Carbón today and saw the familia
Hernandez Velazquez and Victor! It was super awesome and fun! Pics to come!
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