Hola Mamá! I’m doing great. It was an awesome week! To start with, Monday was a good and calm day. One of the things I love about our casa is that we have a washing machine to wash clothes in! No more washing clothes in a bucket! The washing machine is a little old, like from the 90’s, but it still works good so I’m not going to complain! After p-day ended we went to look for and get to know some investigators, sadly we weren’t able to find anyone home, but we’re going to keep trying.
Tuesday we had a district meeting where we talked about what it means to be a successful missionary. In Preach My Gospel, Chapter 1, there are many characteristics or attributes such as dedication to find, teach, baptize and confirm people, they don’t compare themselves to others, don’t get discouraged and many more. We talked about what we can do to be successful and how to apply all of the characteristics. One of the hardest for me is to not compare myself to other missionaries, but I’ve learned that it's not important who gets to baptize and who it counts for, but rather it’s the teaching that’s important and being able to help people find their conversion and change to be able to be baptized. Seeing that change and being a part of it is incredible. So I’m going to try harder to develop these characteristics so I can be an even more successful missionary with the 5 months I still have left!
Wednesday we spent a good portion of the day looking for investigators and former investigators. We had a couple of appointments that fell through so we were able to spend a lot of time looking for people and contacting new ones. Contacting went pretty good. We knocked on one door and a woman came out and started telling us about quite a few people in her family, including her son, who just the day before was diagnosed with some sicknesses like cancer, diabetes, etc. So we presented ourselves and she invited us in to talk with her and her son. The woman, Ines, is catholic and her son, Cesar, is basically atheist. He believes in science and things he can see and touch. But he does want to be healed from the things he was recently diagnosed of so he accepted to hear from us and said we could come back another day to talk more with him and his mother. I know we can help him if he will open his heart and mind that God will help him.
Thursday was a really awesome day. We had a lesson with the husband of the Relief Society President, who isn’t a member but wants to start taking lessons. When we first got to this area, the Bishop told us about him, Jorge Cruz, and that he wants to be baptized. So we have been trying to schedule an appointment and were finally able to have a lesson and start teaching him! His story is quite interesting. His wife, his kids and basically all the family on his wife’s side are members. But he and his side of the family are not. He has been going to church and has had missionaries come to teach him for around 25 years, but he’s never felt ready to be baptized until now. He’s read the Book of Mormon lots of times and has a really strong testimony about it and about prayer. He finally feels ready because he wants to enter the temple to be sealed with his family and to be a good example to his little granddaughter. He wants to have his baptismal service on the 13th of April!
Friday we had our second lesson with Jorge Cruz and had a pretty great lesson about the Plan of Salvation. He understood it all pretty well and is very excited that after his baptism he can continue progressing to the Celestial Kingdom. It’s so cool to see how happy and excited he is and also how much love and support he is getting from his family and other members. We also ended the day with four new contacts. I think we could have done something different or still tried harder to get more, but Saturday was a new day and the start of General Conference!!
Saturday we didn’t have time for anything else because of conference, but that’s okay because conference was awesome! We got to watch it in the church building. There weren’t many members there, so I just hope they were able to watch it in their houses. There were so many good talks but I really loved the ones from Priesthood. While we were in the church after the second session and waiting for Priesthood, a homeless drunk man came into the church asking for food and money. We gave him some of the snacks we had and then he went on is way. It was an interesting experience. After Priesthood Session, we had a bit of time before we had to be in the casa so to keep the tradition of going out to eat after, we went out for tacos! I just love General Conference!
Sunday sessions and talks were amazing too. Quite a few speakers talked about repentance and faith, and there were a lot more members that came to the sessions at church so that was really cool to see. After the sessions we had a lesson with Jorge Cruz where we taught him about the commandments and the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We need to finish teaching everything today because he has his interview on Tuesday so our lessons have been a bit long but it’s necessary if he wants to be baptized on Saturday.
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