Hola Hola! This week was really good! but I’ll let you read on to find out more. Tuesday in our district meeting we got a surprise visit from the assistants which was super awesome because I know them well. They are Elders Avendaño, Loomis and Davis. Avendaño is cool but I love Loomis and Davis. They are two of my best friends here in the mission so it was super awesome to see them.
In the meeting we were instructed about how we need to always try to teach people the doctrine of baptism. We talked about how we should try to contact families because it is good to teach and baptize one person but it would be even better to do it with a whole family! Later we were able to have a lesson with Joselin and finish teaching her about the Plan of Salvation. She has lots of questions so we were going to try to go back the next day or Thursday because we ran out of time and had to run back to the casa.
Wednesday we went to go visit the Hernandez family, the less active family we visited last week, to share a little message with them, and they made us breakfast too. Later we had an appointment with Francisco, one of our new investigators we found on Sunday, then right after that we had another cita with the Arreola family whose 10-year-old son isn’t baptized. Unfortunately neither were home. Francisco told us he is always home so we can go by basically whenever but for an older guy who is “always home” he’s pretty hard to find there :). With the Arreola family, we’ve been able to talk with them over the phone and they told us they would love to get their son Mateo baptized but it’s just a little hard because they’re so busy. We were able to pass by with Joselin and answer some of the questions she had about the Plan of Salvation then teach her about the Word of Wisdom and the Law of Chastity. She understood it all perfectly and said she is going to live/keep those commandments.
Thursday we didn’t have many appointments so we had more time to go contacting. It started raining crazy hard while we were knocking on doors. I had my umbrella when we left the casa but because it was sunny when we left, my companion didn’t think to take his, even though that’s how the weather has been this week. Hot and sunny in the afternoon then cold and rainy in the evening. My companion was getting wet, but thankfully we went by a members house and they gave him a small umbrella. We went to visit Francisco and were able to share half of the lesson of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Then we also passed by the Arreola family’s house and their son was Mateo home. We were able to invite him to be baptized. Por Fin! Even though it rained a lot we were still able to find some really good contacts, one of which is a really nice girl who sells bread and is really interested. She also gave us some bread for free!
Friday we had a special conference with the whole mission where we took pictures as a mission and then saw a video presentation of pictures that President and Hermana Urrea have taken during their time here in the mission. Then they gave each missionary a surprise gift that had a really sweet pin of the mission logo, a bookmark with our picture and favorite scripture on it, a card with “A counsel simple and pure for missionaries” with scriptures, and then a business card that has their information so we can stay in contact with them after the mission. They shared last words and testimonies then fed us pizza! We were all thinking the conference would be to get to know the new Mission President and his wife too but they aren’t here yet. After we got home we went to visit a contact we found last week named Claudia. We talked with her and then invited her to be baptized and she accepted! Yes! It was a really great day!
Saturday we went contacting for most of the day and were able to end the day with 10 new contacts. We had lots of rejections throughout the day but thankfully we were able to find the contacts that we did. We tried to invite our investigators and as many other people as we could to church as well.
Sunday was an awesome day! Jorge came to church like he said and Joselin also came too! Then after sacrament meeting some members told us of a girl who was there but who isn’t a member and she lives in our area. We found out she has been coming to church for a few weeks now with another member and she likes it a lot, so we invited her to be baptized and she accepted! Then after church we went to an appointment with a family we found on Thursday. Only their two youngest sons were home, they are Angel and Eduardo and they are super cool! We taught them about the restoration and they had lots of questions and doubts but it was a super great lesson and they also accepted our invitations to be baptized! We now have 8 investigators in total! I’m so very grateful to my Heavenly Father for putting these people in our path and helping us make them investigators. I know it’s because of Him and I know that he is blessing us for our efforts, especially from the past cambio where we had 4 or 5 weeks without finding anyone.
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| My name is in the scriptures :) |
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| The awesome pin we got from President and Hermana Urrea |
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| The cool bookmark they gave me |
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